Brewers Yeast vs. Yeast vs. Niacin Tabs

[DaisyMay34]

I can't find any organic brewers yeast in my area, will regular yeast do the same for the Niacin they require? I found some GMO Free yeast at the Vitamin Shoppe that says it provides 270% of a humans daily Niacin value. I've been adding Niacin tabs to their water but they waste SO MUCH! I have one Pekin (we call him Quackers) that has had major leg issues since I got "him" at 1 day old. He can walk and run but he falls ALOT and is noticeably slower than the rest. The rest (11 others) seem to be fine. I added Poly-vi-sol when they were little and fuzzy and it seemed to help a little but now that they are large it's too expensive to use that...
Any suggestions/answers?

 

[JadeComputerGal]

I can't find any organic brewers yeast in my area, will regular yeast do the same for the Niacin they require? I found some GMO Free yeast at the Vitamin Shoppe that says it provides 270% of a humans daily Niacin value. I've been adding Niacin tabs to their water but they waste SO MUCH! I have one Pekin (we call him Quackers) that has had major leg issues since I got "him" at 1 day old. He can walk and run but he falls ALOT and is noticeably slower than the rest. The rest (11 others) seem to be fine. I added Poly-vi-sol when they were little and fuzzy and it seemed to help a little but now that they are large it's too expensive to use that...
Any suggestions/answers?

Regular yeast, which is the kind you use to make bread, is active yeast. That's not supposed to be directly ingested. You can order non-GMO Brewer's Yeast from Amazon and other places online. I'm a little surprised they don't sell that at Vitamine Shoppe, but I haven't been to one of those in several years.

 

[DaisyMay34]

They do have brewers yeast, just not the non gmo or organic kind. And the smallest bottle I've ever seen. Ive been mixing in several niacin capsules (emtied of corse) in there food too, but this is kind of dumb. How do they get so much in nature? I need to do that! Im gonna go broke trying to feed these 12 ducks! My chickens are easy in comparison and I have well over 100 of them!

 

[DaisyMay34]

The yeast i got said you could mix it with water or juice and drink it. Why isnt it suppose to be ingested directly?

 

[Amiga]

The baking yeast is what you are not to ingest directly. It is not good for us, or the ducks.

The brewer's yeast or nutritional yeast is a bit different and can be ingested directly. We add it to juice because, well, trying to just get a spoonful of dry powder down without added liquid is a bit of a challenge. One could choke.

In an ideal natural environment, there would be plenty of snails, slugs, fish and bugs (that contain niacin) for them all to eat.

The extra niacin is needed during their first 2 or 3 months - after that their nervous systems have developed and they should be fine with standard feed.

 

[kunemama]

Do you have a Whole Foods by you? That's where I get mine. Most of those organic type food stores should sell it. You don't need to use organic brewers or nutritional yeast though. Whether it's organic or not makes no difference.

 

[DaisyMay34]

We are raising them for food and the people that want them want organic so i do have to look for that specifically unfortunately. Since they are for food they'll only be around for about 2 months so i have to make sure they have it. I called Whole Foods by me, they don't have it
good thought.
i feed them fodder for greens (in addition to their feed) and they do get to run around so i know they get some bugs but as for slugs and fish, since they have a kiddie pool and not a pond, not to much.

 

[kunemama]

It might be worth a trip down there just to check. I've called them asking for odd things that they claimed they didn't have by it turned out they did have it. Are you using organic pills? I wasn't aware that vitamin supplements came organic.

 

[JadeComputerGal]

It might be worth a trip down there just to check. I've called them asking for odd things that they claimed they didn't have by it turned out they did have it. Are you using organic pills? I wasn't aware that vitamin supplements came organic.

I'm a little puzzled by the question as well. "Organic" doesn't apply to many things in vitamins, though it could apply to some ingredients. An example I can think of is that some supplements now contain fruits and/or vegetables (I'm still not convinced of the effectiveness of that), so the fruits and vegetables themselves could be organically grown. However, many things in supplements are extracted, not grown. For instance, the reason many people prefer unprocessed sea salt is that regular table salt has had the trace minerals extracted and sold to vitamin manufacturers. You can't call that "organic" because nobody grew the salt or the minerals, they harvested them from naturally-occurring elements.

I really still think what Daisy is looking for is non-GMO Brewer's Yeast, which would mean the fungus the yeast is made of wasn't genetically modified to speed the growth or whatever else.