Can't find affordable sprouting seeds

[SilkieObession]

Hey everyone, I want to start sprouting for my chicks.

I hear it can be super affordable, but I can't find any places online that sell it for what I seen people talk about on the internet.

I've read multiple sources that said they could get 50lbs of wheat seed for under 20$!

Can you please share some websites that have cheep sprouting seed with me?

 

[sylviethecochin]

Most of the places that have that sort of thing (around here, at least) cater to the needs of Amish and rural farmers, the latter of which are mostly guys in their forties-sixties who both farm and have a full-time job and neither group cares to look up stores on the internet. In short, they don't have websites, and they rely mostly on word-of-mouth advertising.

You'll be best off checking in a phone book. Or even in an online phone book. Try "Eugene, OR feed store" and see what comes up. Call and ask about their pricing. Don't bother checking TSC or RK; they cater to the horse people and the people who just got into farming, and aren't aware that oats shouldn't cost $22 for 50 lb.

Where I live, you're a fool if you pay as much as $15 for a 50# bag of oats. $7-8 is reasonable.

 

[chickens really]

Sprout sunflower seeds....

 

[RookieChickyMom]

Sprout sunflower seeds....

How hard is this to do? And is the process the same as wheat or barley?

 

[NNYchick]

I just got a 18lb of grains for sprouting. It was $30 free shipping. I’m not sure if that’s a good price. But I couldn’t find source locally that I wouldn’t have to buy 50lbs of each and mix. It is a mix of barley, boss, green field peas, millet, flax seed, oat groats, and red winter wheat. Since I only sprout as a healthy evening treat in the winter when they have no green ground and have a small flock I decided to try it. I ordered Saturday from the website and it arrived today.
https://www.serenitysprouts.com/product-page/non-gmo-sprouting-feed-ferment-fodder-shipped

 

[Sakai]

I get my seeds from Tractor supply and a local feed store.
Oats, corn , barley, wheat, sunflower seeds. Lentils, ect.. i believe the process is the same for all seeds. The times are just different.

 

[Kayla's Lunch]

I just got a 18lb of grains for sprouting. It was $30 free shipping. I’m not sure if that’s a good price. But I couldn’t find source locally that I wouldn’t have to buy 50lbs of each and mix. It is a mix of barley, boss, green field peas, millet, flax seed, oat groats, and red winter wheat. Since I only sprout as a healthy evening treat in the winter when they have no green ground and have a small flock I decided to try it. I ordered Saturday from the website and it arrived today.
https://www.serenitysprouts.com/product-page/non-gmo-sprouting-feed-ferment-fodder-shipped

Let me know how this works. I have been looking for some affordable seed and am having trouble. I grow microgreens for my family and wanted to grow fodder for the 11 chickens that we have, but want to find something inexpensive.

 

[Chickassan]

Why not just sprout a bag of birdseed?

 

[Kayla's Lunch]

Why not just sprout a bag of birdseed?

I have been doing that, but I keep reading different things about bird seed is okay for chickens and bird seed isn't okay for chickens. I can't seem to find out the "real truth" on that. What I have been growing for them from bird seed they really like. It disappears like magic!

 

[Helloworld]

We sprout our 5 grain scratch we feed in winter. Much cheaper.