Wanted, your valued opinion re: dried egg mix

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CyndiD

CyndiD

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Hi, I am requesting your valued opinion in regards to feeding my ducks & chickens a dried egg product called "All Purpose Egg Mix, a dried egg product"? The ingredients are: Whole egg-not less than 74%; maltodextrin-not less than 21.2%; vegetable oil (corn or soybean oil)-not less than 4%; salt-not more than 0.5%; citric acid-not more than 0.3%.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltodextrin
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid

I have another request for your valued opinion. I am thinking of buying, (soaking & cooking & feeding) my ducks & chickens dried green peas.
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=56
There is a large variety of dried vegetables but I am looking to decrease my feed bill with some dried vegies vs fresh or frozen.
P.S. I do grow my own fresh garden vegies for my flock. The above discussion will be for getting my flock through the winter months when I can't grow or buy fresh vegies.
Thanks for reading & for your responses.
 
I don't have ducks so can't answer to the duck part of the question, but dried eggs are fine for chickens. You can mix it into your feed even though it is powdery. It will coat the feed particles.

I would be cautious about not putting out much at a time though. For example I would not load up a huge feeder with that mixed into the feed that will be sitting there for weeks on end in the heat of summer. I would think it would turn rancid quickly in coop conditions.

The dried peas are fine fed dried. I have fed split peas dry fine and whole corn (but whole corn not for bantams). Peas don't require cooking before being fed to chickens, as the level of anti-nutrients is low enough.

Lentils have tannins in them but can still be fed raw (but I wouldn't do a lot of those at once). Beans of course must be cooked before feeding to poultry, and soybeans roasted.

Here:
http://www.extension.org/pages/67359/feeding-field-peas-to-poultry#.VSQPAuRVK1E
 
@ChickensAreSweet thank u so much for your reply & for the site. I havent looked at it yet but, i will after i finish feeding my critters & putting them to bed.
Feeding the dried egg mix dry sounds great. Feeding the peas dry also is a plus. I will look into it & see what i come up with. Just to make sure its ok for ducks, it makes sense, as long as they dont swell up inside them?
Thanks again
 
CyndiD said:
@ChickensAreSweet thank u so much for your reply & for the site. I havent looked at it yet but, i will after i finish feeding my critters & putting them to bed.
Feeding the dried egg mix dry sounds great. Feeding the peas dry also is a plus. I will look into it & see what i come up with. Just to make sure its ok for ducks, it makes sense, as long as they dont swell up inside them?
Thanks again
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You are welcome! Maybe search byc for feeding dried peas to ducks or maybe put it over in the duck forum and ask the duck people?
 
@ChickensAreSweet, Thanks again. The sit u posted is great. I liked it very much & learned alot. I saved it to my "homepage" so i can have it handy. Ur great & kind! :goodpost:
 

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