3 Uncommon Grains You Can Feed To Your Chickens...And Grow Easily!
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Grains can be an essential part of a balanced chicken feed. Corn, soy and wheat are the most common...but these have downsides. So Steve and Brian introduce 3 uncommon grains that just might be the solution to feeding you chickens healthy grains.
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My $3K John Deere riding lawn mower has been sitting idle ever since I got chickens, because I replaced (added to) 2/3rds of an acre of "St. Augustin lawn" with milo. The cackle crew loves it! North Texas
The chicken picture in the intro totally made me laugh! Soooo cute!
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I absolutely loathe gmo grains. I am glad you are covering fantastic grains to feed chickens.
I felt this way too, until I realized that any type of selection based upon certain plant properties is essentially genetic modification - even seed saving so that the seeds become adapted to my home locale is a type of genetic modification. I disapprove of inserting genes from one species into another, even between plant species, although I can foresee instances where I could change my mind on this also.
No, they're still two completely different things. One is selective breeding, which happens all the time in nature between humams and animals. It's quite literally why we find people physically attractive and try to win their affection, and why animals have mating rituals. Genetic modification, however, is the artificial insertion of foreign genetics in a host.
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GMO's have microbes (virus or bacteria) onto which other genetic materials are attached.
Enjoy! I'll stick with "natural selection" or natural hybrids.
@@HickoryDickory86 But selective breeding IS a type of genetic modification. A non-invasive type, to be sure. But selecting for some genes gets rid of others, thus affecting the future of that line. 😄
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First coffee, breakfast on, preparing for the day and another great video from The Hobby Farm Guys. Good Morning!!
Enjoy!
Dear Hobby Farm Guys,
Great programme on alternative grains to feed chickens. One would have to figure out how to grow these three grains and to harvest them. That, I would expect would take some doing, involving a learning curve. But, I expect it is also possible to buy these grains and incorporate them into the diet of one’s flock. It is good to know the nutritional value of the different grains for chickens. This is very valuable information.
Sincerely,
Larry Clarence Lewis
London, Ontario, Canada.
Thanks Larry. Great to hear form you! Yes, you can also buy them to make your own feed mix if you can find them.
Pearl millet and foxtail millets are very easy to grow especially in hot deserts like Arizona etc... all it needs is small plots manageable size for you and you can water weekly once established then every 10 days.
Thanks. I live in Az and wondered about growing it here.
Farming is hard work and makes us eat!
Yes it is! And yes we like to eat! 😂
1. Millet (4:07)
2. Amaranth (6:49)
3.Teff (11:15)
I'm surprised sorghum didn't come up on the list.
And to deal with the anti-nutrients and phytotoxins in all grains, one can sprout and/or ferment the grains before feeding them to livestock.
Thanks!
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My the creator of heaven and earth bless you greatly... Love that intro🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏❣️
Milo is the same sorghum, I think if there is a will, it is ok to crop in the south of US
@@lorzazuletadaniel6337 Sorghum is a major crop grown in the South. A classic southern staple is sorghum molasses.
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soaking sprouting to reduce/remove anti nutrients
Sprouting grains before feeding them to the chickens increases nutrient complexity & intensity. Caraway, Rye & Funnel are good sprouting grains for chickens that boost egg flavor intensity. Insects also are awesome for their diet.
Very true!
I was thinking about that. I’m starting to do this for my chickens. I wonder if fermenting would help with the amaranth and the nutritional binders in it
@@keithdr_baldy5250 Hum, interesting. Yeast create thousands of new organic chemicals from the starch, many are beneficial. But some might have adverse effects. Alcohol itself will need to evaporate off. Some of the alcohol will become acetates. It's a good question for an expert!
What about sprouting the grains before feeding to the chickens for additional nutrients???
Definitely!
Cannabis seeds are absolutely the healthier choice and highest protein of all grains. Birds prefer them to all other grain. It's easiest to grow and harvest also.
Great tip…depending on where you live
Was going to get teff for multi purpose cover crop,now it'll be in the aquaphonic feed trays for them 😍😍😍🙏🙏🙏
Great idea!
Another great video guys. Thanks
This was an excellent video. Could you do a short follow up video for the hobby farmer On if we were to plant an acre of these grains, but don’t have commercial combine equipment how to harvest and potentially store the product. I would love to plant 1/3 acre of all of these, but not sure, how to go about harvesting and drying or processing it. I think that would be a really nice additional video. Thank you.
I'll check with the guys to see what they can do.
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO...THANKS SO MUCH GUYS! BY FAR THE BEST CHICKEN CHANNEL ON UA-cam!👏🥳❤️🐓🥰
Wow, thank you!
Lawn clippings are great as a side dish.
Be careful with lawn clippings. It can cause trouble with impacted crop!
Another terrific video.... this one will require a rewatch before the quiz...lol....Thank you gents!
Glad you enjoyed it!
When i was a dirty rotten hippie,ate LOTS of millet 😂😂😋😋
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Now I am really enjoyed that. These guys are really smart I really enjoy watching the old videos. It's very very very very very very very educational so I hope you guys have great success and blessed by the Lord Jesus Christ and yes I hope you guys accept Jesus as your lord and savior. And may God bless you too the lost seed.
Thank you so much & God bless you!
Guys, I love this one!! I'm in tn where it rains a lot then nothing!! I can see teff instead of fighting to get grass to grow!!
Glad you liked it!
It seems that a type of Amaranth grows wild here in North Central Kansas, sure looks the same , ?
What do you guys think of Buckwheat for chicken feed?
I grow buckwheat and feed it stalk and all to the chickens when the "grain" is ready. I also grow sunflowers and a bit of amaranth.
Buckwheat is good as long as it doesn’t make up too much of their diet. No more than about 25-30%.
I grew Golden Giant Amaranth for years. It's a little bit of work to thresh out the seeds, but no fancy equipment is needed, just a constant breeze.
Thank you for your help
Happy to help!
Fantastic advice guys. Much appreciated. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
This channel is awesome, great that was explained about these grains, that even can cultivate in zones as Central and part of South America, are unknown to be useful for feed chickens, maybe as people are stuck just thinking in concentrate brands. Probably milo also named sorghum can be cultivated in dried places of US with low soil feature, for feed livestock. Hopefully you can talk abt Azolla there are different types as caroliniana also named Eastern Mosquito Fern, even though isnt a grain it is a plant and seems to be excellent for feed poultry and other animals. Salute from Colombia
Thanks for adding to the subject and for the suggestion!
Have you considered flax seed ?
White pro so.
Barley , whole oats , wheat , flax , milo and millet soaked an sprouted seems to be a good mix.???
Diatomaceus earth as well in the proper ammounts.
The egg shells can be dried , crushed and fed to the birds as well.
Thanks!
You are welcome!
Very interesting. Very useful. Many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super interesting. Thanks guys!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for the tips! I already have a microgreens 'buffet' for my girls, and was wondering what else I could grow..
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Our pleasure!
Thank you for the information, gentlemen! Very thorough and helpful. I really appreciate ideas for which crops will grow on poor soil. Just fyi, Websters pronounces methionine like ‘meth-eye-o-neen’. Might be less confusing in the long run, when people ask about it.
Thanks!
Excellent information
Glad you liked it
I'm going to definitely going to try the last tef test? Either way, I live like a few miles from the snake river in Southern Idaho..❤
Good luck neighbor!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Great information. Thank you 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Teff i have never heard of, but sounds like it would be ideal for us, so thank you and glad this video popped up in my feed! Our soil is clay/hard clay, and we are either extreme drought our extreme sog (rarely do we get the middle ground, lol) ! We're in NS, and our particular property has a very unique, and extreme, microclimate: today was only 25 or so across the rest of our county, but when I checked our weather station at 4pm, we were at 31, so probably about 35 during the peak heat of the day... come summer, we regularly see temperatures around and even above 40 in the shade (where our thermometer is set up), and the one thermometer we have that tops out at 60 buries the needle on a regular basis out in the sun during summers! But, the summers here have proven to be short, too short for long-season heat crops, so the teff is definitely something I'm going to look into getting!
Good luck!
My horse absolutely LOVES Teff! I'm in AZ, and Teff grows well here. Interesting to find that the grain is a good source for chickens.
Are the antinutrients mentioned oxalic acid (boiling and rid water can help) and phytates? So much info in this vid !
Yes!
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What about fermenting the amaranth? Destroying anti nutrients
It can certainly reduce the anti-nutritional effect
My tiny flock goes absolutely crazy for millet!🐓💕
But, I got some sainfoin to plant in my dry, slightly alkaline, hot & summer drought zone 9 garden/chicken pasture.
How does sainfoin rate as chicken fodder???
(Where to buy teff seed???)
Sainfoin is a great pasture grass for grazing chickens! You will probably have to order test seed online.
Can we buy organic amaranth at the grocery for the chicken?
you can!
Thanks for this! Do the amaranth leaves also contain the anti nutrients?
Yes they do. But if dried or cooked the anti nutrients are neutralized.
Are these grains full of omega 6, instead of omega 3. To much omega 6 isn’t good for chickens,meat or eggs
Can you feed your chickens bran flakes or Buckwheat
Yes, as long as it doesn’t make up too much of their diet. It is recommended that buckwheat make up no more than 25-30%
Pronunciation: meth i o nin. Sorghum has limited amounts for poultry.
Isn’t it interesting how we get animal feed down to an exact science per species and yet fail to do so for Homo sapiens. Why is that?
Good question!
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