new research debunks trad views on nutrition

[BDutch]

well, except that I don't know if there is a type of dung beetle that specializes in chicken poop

‍ Mushrooms are grown on horse manure that has been composted with chicken manure + lime.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

‍ Mushrooms are grown on horse manure that has been composted with chicken manure + lime.

Thus the saying, in the US anyway, among irritated employees who never know what’s going on:

“I’m on the mushroom diet: kept in the dark and fed nothing but sh!t.”

Signed,
Former federal employee

 

[Molpet]

But researchers wanted to look at feeding almond hulls to yeast which might boost their nutritional value. Yeast could consume sugars from the hulls and produce protein.

Initial results are promising​

Compositional analysis showed that almond hulls are rich in polygalacturonic acid (pectin) and soluble sucrose. A pectinase-assisted process was optimised to liquify and release soluble sugars from the almond hulls.

The process did require adding enzymes to convert the hulls to a slurry, and nitrogen for the yeasts to produce proteins. Yields of essential amino acids, especially lysine, need further improvement.

https://www.allaboutfeed.net/animal...VXFB-dAs08kQP5Q&mlnmsg=hWNeQO_KvKDyojTlgbp0aA

 

[Perris]

If your chickens eat flowers in your garden, you might find this interesting:
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-wild-bumble-bees-diet-isnt.html

Note how variable the nutritional profiles of the macronutrients of different flowers are, and how they change through the seasons.

I'm still waiting for decent analyses of pollen micronutrients.

 

[Perris]

But researchers wanted to look at feeding almond hulls to yeast which might boost their nutritional value. Yeast could consume sugars from the hulls and produce protein.

Initial results are promising​

Compositional analysis showed that almond hulls are rich in polygalacturonic acid (pectin) and soluble sucrose. A pectinase-assisted process was optimised to liquify and release soluble sugars from the almond hulls.

The process did require adding enzymes to convert the hulls to a slurry, and nitrogen for the yeasts to produce proteins. Yields of essential amino acids, especially lysine, need further improvement.

https://www.allaboutfeed.net/animal-feed/feed-additives/using-yeast-to-convert-almond-hulls-to-animal-feed/?utm_source=Maileon&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aaf_all_traffic_con_non_base_email_oth_foc-2025-08-21+-+Yeast&utm_content=https://www.allaboutfeed.net/animal-feed/feed-additives/using-yeast-to-convert-almond-hulls-to-animal-feed/&mlnt=djwW3fTSsC3NHlVLRSiiW02l7Vlf1YBrEGowClu00GU8WcBCa0liNw&mlnm=Yr7zkL3DJ3w&mlnl=TKZ1C4oa3FA&mlnc=QzrJAg6mYvg&mlnch=M5efMb3VXFB-dAs08kQP5Q&mlnmsg=hWNeQO_KvKDyojTlgbp0aA

sounds like an ultra-processed food to me.

 

[Altairsky]

If your chickens eat flowers in your garden, you might find this interesting:
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-wild-bumble-bees-diet-isnt.html

Note how variable the nutritional profiles of the macronutrients of different flowers are, and how they change through the seasons.

I'm still waiting for decent analyses of pollen micronutrients.

My chickens eat flowers, surgically. From time to time, not always and they rotate between species.

 

[Perris]

My chickens eat flowers, surgically. From time to time, not always and they rotate between species.

mine do the same. Very selective.

 

[BDutch]

My chickens eat flowers, surgically. From time to time, not always and they rotate between species.

mine do the same. Very selective.

Mine too. Ini mini is eating a lot of the lemon balm at the moment. Normally she has no interest for it.

 

[Molpet]

My turkey toms are eating flowers of White vervain. It's all over the place but I never noticed them eating it before.
Verbena urticifolia White Vervain | Prairie Moon Nursery https://share.google/emmmXqSY4DPMlzQgV

 

[kattabelly]

There's a big drive to plant more red clover here because it's such an important source of food for the great yellow bumblebee, partly because of its protein content. Vetches too.

When they aren't eating all the raspberry flowers just before they set fruit my chickens seem to have a thing for plants that are supposed to be toxic. Buttercups are always popular and recently they've been going for ragwort flowers