Which of these seeds is millet

[dipence71]

I am going to have to try this as 1 my chicks and rabbits will LOVE this and I have celiac disease and millet is one of the flours I can use and is hard to find. Where and what is this particular seed mix called???

 

[jennh]

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Milo is the little round red grain, used as a filler in cheap birdseed. My chickens won't eat it. Neither will the wild birds.

Jen

 

[Katy]

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Milo is the little round red grain, used as a filler in cheap birdseed. My chickens won't eat it. Neither will the wild birds.

Jen

My ducks and chickens all love milo.....that's one of the grains I feed them as a treat in the winter.

 

[Chris09]

Milo can be used to replace corn in some "no corn" feeds, it all so can be used to keep the amount of corn down feeds and can be found in "cheap" and "expensive" feeds.
Milo is a high energy grain and has around 9 percent protein.
Milo also known as Sorghum can be made into a rich/ sweet molasses called "Sweet sorghum syrup" and "sorghum molasses".

Chris

 

[SillyChicken]

http://www.sustainableseedco.com/millet/

This link has photos, info and herloom seeds so you can grow your own.

 

[Katy]

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Milo is in the sorghum family, but is different than the sorghum that they grow for molasses. The milo we grow for the seed is short (waist to chest high) while the cane sorghum that is grown for molasses is a taller plant. We also grow silage sorghum that has seed that looks like the milo found in bird seed, but is a little smaller seed......the plant itself tho is much taller...8-10 feet tall. That we chop and feed to the cows. We also grow a cane sorghum that we bale for cattle feed. All related, but all different.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

There are many varieties of millet so the seeds for each can look a little different from each other.

The same is true for milo (sorghum). Some varieties are best for seed production, some for syrup, some for forage. And their seeds can look different from each other.

Generally speaking the smaller, rounder, lighter colored seeds are the millet. The somewhat larger, not quite as round, usually darker colored seeds are the milo (sorghum).

I wouldn't bother to separate the seeds. In the past I've simply broadcast wild bird seed straight out of the bag then raked it in. Got a great stand. When it reached calf-high I put the birds on it and they loved it.

.....Alan.