Best/Easies Grains to Raise for Chickens

[catjac1975]

I do get that and appreciate your hardiness to the gross factor.

 

[897tgigvib]

I've found in my life that I have periods of time when I get grossed out easily, and other times when hardly anything gets to me. I don't know why.

 

[digitS']

I have a question:

What are meal worms fed?

From a little research on the raising of red worms, it seems the commercial outfits feed them the equivalent of chicken feed. Gardeners, especially gardeners with livestock, would have a much more varied choice of what to feed red worms. But, what would be fed to meal worms?

Steve

 

[Kassaundra]

I have a question:

What are meal worms fed?

From a little research on the raising of red worms, it seems the commercial outfits feed them the equivalent of chicken feed. Gardeners, especially gardeners with livestock, would have a much more varied choice of what to feed red worms. But, what would be fed to meal worms?

Steve

Meal worms are not at all similar to red worms. They need a dry grain based substrate (chicken food, wheat bran, oats, etc.....) a moisture source (apple, carrot, potato, just about any fruit or veggie) but must not be allowed to mold or get the substrate wet.

 

[digitS']

Therefore,

why not just feed the chicken food and grain to the chickens rather than to the meal worms?

Steve

 

[897tgigvib]

Digit! That's the kind of question that'll keep an ole Neanderthal awake at night!

Further processing???

...Madrones are dropping berries on my roof...

:rainbow-sun

 

[Kassaundra]

Therefore,

why not just feed the chicken food and grain to the chickens rather than to the meal worms?

Steve

Mealworm Nutritional Info:
Fat 27.2%, Protein 49.6%, Carbohydrates 6.9 grams/100, Calories 471 calories/100 grams



Nutrient Composition of Cereal Grains



Ingredient

Crude protein
(%)

Metabolisable energy
(kcal/kg)

Calcium
(%)

Available phosphorous
(%)

Lysine
(%)



Wheat

13.0

3153

0.05

0.20

0.5



Sorghum

9.0

3263

0.02

0.15

0.3



Barley

11.5

2795

0.10

0.20

0.4



Rye

12.5

2734

0.05

0.18

0.5



Triticale

15.4

3110

0.05

0.19

0.4



Oats

12.0

2756

0.10

0.20

0.4

 

[digitS']

That is quite a list.

You are suggesting that the meal worms are concentrated protein whereas the grains are not. Right?

Soy protein? A 14% protein ration would be adequate for chickens. The high protein of the meal worms is all coming from the grain protein going into their (the meal worms') diet.

Steve

 

[Kassaundra]

That is quite a list.

You are suggesting that the meal worms are concentrated protein whereas the grains are not. Right?

Soy protein? A 14% protein ration would be adequate for chickens. The high protein of the meal worms is all coming from the grain protein going into their (the meal worms') diet.

Steve

I'm saying the nutritional value of a meal worm that eats grains is not any more comparable then if you ate grass instead of the beef steak, or the grain instead of the egg.

 

[897tgigvib]

BIOPROCESSING!

That's what it is.

plants eat dirt, sunshine, and air
cows eat plants
humans eat cows
everything turns back into dirt and air
i think the sunshine turns into energy
its more complicated than that though