Pinto bean sprout results
The chickens seem to enjoy eating the new pinto bean
sprouts. No surprise there. I give them about a handful a day.
I didn't expect our dog, Lucy to be so enthusiastic about the new
source of protein and vitamins. We have decided it makes a good
supplement to her current dog food, which is mainly corn and other
various dog food ingredients if you believe what's printed on the bag.
This experiment has caused me to seriously consider changing from
store bought dog food to a home made mixture. There is way too much
information on the internet to sort through it all on this topic, but
it seems the only food items you should avoid are onions, grapes, and
raisins.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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why would you avoid grapes, onions, raisons to feed your chickens?i like the bean sprout idea.or was that for the dog?
You avoid grapes, onions, and raisins for your dog. Not sure why --- there must be something in there that's bad for them!
(Although, I've also read you shouldn't feed onions to your chickens because it'll affect the flavor of the eggs. But I never paid attention to that, and our eggs taste great.
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Technically, the bean sprouts are for the chickens --- sprouting is supposed to increase the nutrients and digestability for them. But Lucy seemed enthused too.