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@raingarden peas - I have never heard of this dish, but I am in Europe.. for the chicken - I boil water and simply soak the peas in boiling hot water for about 10min. I don't bother boiling, just soaking in boiling hot water. The chicken love it, especially if you serve it hot (we have snow...

I was able to find Sorghum - more protein than wheat but less amino acids. Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum) raw - more than 20% protein (I will be soaking it), and Green peas dried raw with 22-29% protein. I will be soaking it as well.

I was able to find wheat with 11.38% protein and 29.59% wet gluten (whatever that means) and I will not buy corn. For the record - Cockspur grass has 11.13% protein and is 1/2 the price of wheat, so I may go for Cockspur grass as a main grain and add wheat. I am not concerned about calcium as I...

@raingarden I apologize, I am not familiar with the term "un-hulled", so I cannot comment, though I have experimented with all kinds of rice. @CanadaEh OK, barley... I had a separate thread a while ago about barley and somehow I got the impression it is not better than wheat...

@Rangergord , yes I have started soaking the triticale, thank you! @TheFatBlueCat I have never heard of anyone using animal-based feed for chicken... maybe in NZ heH :) I will ask around though... @saysfaa I like your expression "one gets correlation without causation" I will borrow it :) I...

Good morning! Thank you all for a valuable discussions, so many insights! Yes, I did not mention anything about the flock size and type as I did not think it is important. I also did not mention the fact that all my chicken are "homemade" i.e. all are hatched by me so the layers are not the...

Yes... But nationwide and especially in my region it has been replaced by triticale and triticale is not good for the chicken (from personal experience). So...the only thing that is better than wheat is oats.. and the next one on the list is corn.. I will have to read about oats. Nobody here...

Thank you. Issues with wheat - we don't have it!

I read someone here feeding their chicken on rice only, so I am thinking of replacing wheat with rice. I do feed them other things as well - corn, cockspur grass, layers pellets, etc. + they are free range. So will row rice be better for the chicken than wheat?