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Does anyone know if spent brewery grains have any nutritional value for chickens?
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We have a friend whom owns and operates a small brewery. We are donated a lot of grain weekly.Does anyone know if spent brewery grains have any nutritional value for chickens?
In addition, I should have mentioned, you need to receive it wet! The wetter the better. That brownish water is the nutrients that was boiled out of it.We have a friend whom owns and operates a small brewery. We are donated a lot of grain weekly.
We offer it as a supplement, along with the use of conventional feed.
Most of the nutrients of the barley grain are boiled out of it.
Yes is has some value left in it but not as much as it had before processing.
We mostly feed it to our many pigs and goats.
You need to add other sources of nutrition if you offer it to your poultry..View attachment 1124629 View attachment 1124631 View attachment 1124630
Weather and season is the main factor.Connie, how long does it remain "useable" when you store it that way?
They call spent brewery grains SPENT for a reason. Not only has all or most of the food value been extracted but it is all converted from a starch to a sugar by the malting process while most of the water soluble nutrients have been either removed or ruined by the cooking process.Does anyone know if spent brewery grains have any nutritional value for chickens?
Last edited: Today at 12:48 AMThey call spent brewery grains SPENT for a reason. Not only has all or most of the food value been extracted but it is all converted from a starch to a sugar by the malting process while most of the water soluble nutrients have been either removed or ruined by the cooking process.
One way around the spent brewers grain condrumn is to build a pig pen with a slotted floor above your chicken coop and feed your pigs a mixture of spent brewers grains and some pig or commercial hog chow. Then let your hogs recycle or maybe recirculate is a better term, the spent barley to your chickens living down below.
Of course when this was demonstrated the other way around by feeding cattle on a mixture of poultry litter and silage (high in urea) the little-old-ladies-dressed-in-tennis-shoes went ballistic.