anybody raise sprouts to feed the chickens?

[Lacy Blues]

yep, they are. Forage oats won't have any kind of treatment on them such as fungicides. At least they shouldn't.

 

[volschicken]

Thanks alot...I just purchased sowing wheat I hope they don't have any treatment on them either

 

[lazy gardener]

Ya'll have given me a cracker jack of an idea! I've got a 50lb bag of BOSS sitting outside that the chickens are taking forever to get through. I'm thinking I'm going to sprout a 12x15 pan full of them and then float the BOSS "raft" out into the pond for the ducks to eat.

I'll post pictures!

RichnSteph

Your ducks will love them, but I think they will sink.

Are forage oats ok to sprout and feed to chickens also?

they should be fine.

Thanks alot...I just purchased sowing wheat I hope they don't have any treatment on them either

Sowing wheat may very well be treated with a fungicide which would be poison to your flock.

 

[volschicken]

Ok so can I grow the wheat for fodder? Would that be ok? Thanks for your help

 

[Lacy Blues]

Do you have a package the wheat came in to find out if its treated? It may have some weird color on it which would be a dead give-away. If you don't have a package, call the people you got it from.

If you grow it for fodder, I wouldn't give them the seeds but rather trim the grass to give to them... unless, of course, it is untreated.

 

[volschicken]

The label doesn't say anything about the wheat being treated and the color of it is plain brown...I am new to this site I was going to post pics of it but I haven't figured out how to do it yet

 

[bnjrob]

The label doesn't say anything about the wheat being treated and the color of it is plain brown...I am new to this site I was going to post pics of it but I haven't figured out how to do it yet

It should be labeled if there is a fungicide on it, but no guarantees. One thing I discovered is that it can be heat treated to prevent sprouting but not be labeled as such. I had special ordered wheat to sprout from the feed store and it was all a dud. Couldn't get that stuff to sprout to save my life.

 

[Kassaundra]

Kidney beans are toxic unless cooked. Therefore, I choose not to sprout any beans, just to avoid any issues. However, mung beans are sprouted for human consumption, and eaten raw, I think. but, I also think that mung beans are not in the same family as kidney and pinto beans. Peas and lentils are fine as sprouts. IMO, the only driving factor limiting the variety of seeds that can be sprouted together is their germination time. I have an excess of cucumber seeds, and will be sprouting them, along with my squash seeds, as I cook my winter bounty of squash (from plants that I did not plant this year!). I also save pepper seeds from peppers bought at the grocery store, and will try my hand at sprouting them. I know that those will take close to 2 weeks to sprout!

I doubt pepper seeds will sprout in the cooler temps most of us are sprouting grain seeds, they generally need heated mats to sprout. Also I believe peppers are night shades, just fyi

 

[Kassaundra]

I am pretty sure the boss seeds will float long enough to sprout, but also pretty sure your ducks will demolish them loooooooooooong before the sprout! lol

 

[volschicken]

So can you put wheat on top of your boss in the same jar to sprout them??