Chicken Treats :: Pinto Beans?

[dntd]

Some beans shouldn't be fed raw sprouted but mung beans are good

 

[txchickie]

Cooked beans would be a great source of protien for chickens

 

[whitutis]

Thanks to you all for your input!
I really appreciate it, and from the looks of it, so will my chickens.

Take care,
Whit

 

[Personalitychickens619]

Well I’m not positive about
The chickens eating pinto beans in any amount over a few
Per chicken. I’ve always been told they had to
Be completely
Cooked at the least though and my granny had tons of chicken houses like what they raise
For the factories but
She just
Likes
Chickens. Never less than 200 as personal pets / food suppliers (she fed any veggie in small amounts except no onions garlic or cabbage )
But as for
The beans. My mother worked for a bean factory. Please always wash your beans and look thoroughly because the packaging plants drop the out of vats onto the floor
Occasion sally and they are
Swept up from the floor and back into the bath. Unwashed because they can’t be packaged wet
Hence why they call them dry beans. But do make a habit
To washing no matter what floor they go into or whose hand touches them. You never know where they were prior to getting into your home.

 

[Djones611]

Just wondering if anyone has ever fed their chickens beans? We have a math project that we are working on, where we've had to count these dry beans all different ways. And now that they've been completely man-handled by my and my kid, sitting on the table in an open bowl for a week, not to mention a few have tried to make their escape fallling to the floor yet thwarted by my young lass and added back to the bowl. Ick!

Wondering if i gave them a quick rinse then a soak and boil, would it be okay to feed it to my chickens? I guess i ask because i know what a whole pot full of beans would do to a human, and on the scale of a chicken....i wouldn't want to cause any fowl fireworks, if you know what i mean.

Thanks so much!
Whit

Pinto beans fully cooked with pasta is high in protein and causes more egg laying.

 

[bearcreekbees]

Pinto beans fully cooked with pasta is high in protein and causes more egg laying.

Probably not as high as you think.

Pinto beans contain around 25% protein but pasta, on average, only has around 6%. So, for instance, if you feed half and half you have just reduced your protein to a little over 15%, which is low for chickens.

At the same time, pinto beans contain around 4% fat while pasta contains a little over 1%. Again, feeding half and half you would end up with around 2.5% fat, which is a little low.

 

[Sally PB]

Pinto beans fully cooked with pasta is high in protein and causes more egg laying.

Source for this info?

If this were true, commercial egg farms would have been doing this for ages.