Various authorities report that the birds thrive less well on straight mealies, as we call them in South Africa.Ĭertainly the hens go bananas over the sprouted corn, but are indifferent to dried maize kernels and fast food pellets. It is probably true in sprouted corn for chickens too, except they do not like it fermented. Soaking and rinsing them several times, and then allowing the corn to sprout and even a step further to ferment, removes many of these compounds phytates, lectins and saponins are repeatedly mentioned by researchers as possibly having a detrimental effect on digestion and absorption. In humans, seeds contain many anti-nutrients that inhibit the absorption of certain minerals like iron and calcium from our food. However, frequent rinsing is important do not let them ferment. Much the birds love it, and choose it over commercial feeds. Sprouting corn and were immediately struck by how easy it is and how Vermicompost from a worm farm and they simply go crazy in a feedingįrenzy not unlike gannets diving into a shoal of fish.ĭesiring to improve the nutrition of our free range hens, we started Give them access to your kale and broccoli, or the Just watching them feed on pellets and you can see that theyĭo not excite the birds they seem to eat it almost reluctantly compared to Various minerals and proteins are added to theĬorn, yet they clearly are not particularly partial to it much is Frankly I think there is much to be desired of many commercial brands
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