protein from beans

[Timothy Menezes]

What about soybeans? I think my all grain feed may contain them.

Soy does have to be heated or fermented before you use it as feed. The big bags of soy I found were "roasted" and ready to be used as feed.

Just a quick question for the OP that has been in my head since I first saw this post. If your chickens eat a mouse, a lizard, or something of that nature, does that make their eggs no longer organic since they can't have meat?

 

[Fishkeeper]

Have you looked up what the guidelines for "vegetarian fed" eggs are? Because, as I'm sure you've been told several times by now, chickens aren't naturally vegetarians. They eat insects, small reptiles, heck, they'll eat mice. Would insect protein make them not vegetarian?
Or you could let them out to forage (i.e. catch their own protein) and still technically have not fed them animal protein.
As far as I know, the only reason people want vegetarian eggs is because diseases can be transmitted to chickens in improperly handled meat ingredients, and then to humans. There can't be a considerable nutritional difference, an egg is a very specific thing.

 

[Keeperofmunchkins]

I'm assuming the OP wants to sell the eggs as 'vegetarian' to appeal to a specific market

Question for the OP: when selling the eggs as vegetarian, Does that mean your hens are vegetarian? Eggs are already suitable for vegetarians but if your hens must be vegetarian then they cannot eat crickets.

As others have stated, raw beans are bad because they are toxic (not because chickens can't fart!) but cooked beans and lentils are fine. In fact a lot of processed chicken feeds contain soybeans or broad beans/fava beans as a protein source.

 

[Nelson-Collier]

Nothing is undercooked around here, the wife's side of the family overcooks everything. Trying to get them to try a medium rare stake is like trying to get blood out of a turnip.

Lol dang

I hate watching them bbq beef, I tell them beef should never crunch, but they don't listen. I have to sneak my food off the grill before they turn it into jerky!

 

[Nelson-Collier]

I'm assuming the OP wants to sell the eggs as 'vegetarian' to appeal to a specific market

Question for the OP: when selling the eggs as vegetarian, Does that mean your hens are vegetarian? Eggs are already suitable for vegetarians but if your hens must be vegetarian then they cannot eat crickets.

As others have stated, raw beans are bad because they are toxic (not because chickens can't fart!) but cooked beans and lentils are fine. In fact a lot of processed chicken feeds contain soybeans or broad beans/fava beans as a protein source.

Ehh I don't care to debate but I guess that makes sense. Especially since cooked beans make you fart badly as well. But raw beans make it worse. I had 2 raw beans, and I have a strong stomach, and I was about to vomit, I was crop dusting everywhere I went around the house all day, and it smelled so bad and lingered. I googled it and chickens, professionals say, can fart but don't need to. I learned somethin' new