can I ferment dead wheat?

[Holas]

So my wife and I grind our own wheat and bake our own bread. This means I have lots of wheat to make into fodder for our chickens. It also means people occasionally gone its there old food storage wheat that people don't know what to do with.





So we just got 60 lbs of wheat from someone who know nothing about it except it was old. It came in 3 metal cans that have to be from the 70s. We opened it up and it was a red wheat and looks fine. I tried to use a batch in my fodder system but it just won't grow.

After a little research I figure the wheat is dead but not rancid. It was to many years without exposure to CO2. I'm told it should hold most of its nutritional value. Is there any reason I can't ferment it? I have wanted to try it anyway and have been reading the fermenting threads.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I think it is rancid.

I would do a germination test between two wet paper towels in a half-closed plastic bag and then plant it if it germinates.

 

[Holas]

Well it is most certainly not germinating but it seems just fine. I cracked some and tasted it and it tastes like red Wheat. It seems like I could toss it in my mill and make bread with it. It just doesn't germinate. So I hoped I could just ferment it.