Welcome Jeff Mattocks – Poultry Nutritionist.

[Kenny Troiano]

The Breeders Academy is very honored to have Jeff Mattocks as a member. He is one of the top Nutritionist in the Country. He can answer all your feeding and nutritional questions. Please make him feel welcome.

Also, make sure to check out the articles written by Jeff, you can learn a lot from his teachings. He will also be on the Bred to Perfection podcast soon, so make sure to listen to that as well.

And, he will have a very special offer for all of you at that time. I urge you to take advantage of this offer.

[Anonymous]

Hello Jeff. I listen to your interview. So much information thank you. I have one question. What are your thoughts on fodder? I see some people doing it I’ve tried it but I was wondering is it as good as everyone says it is.

[Kenny Troiano]

Hello AKCChickenma,

Here is your answer from Jeff Mattocks about Fodder. He didn’t know who asked it, so he sent it to me. I will post it here now.

Fodder is exciting stuff! It is succulent forage for any animal or human for that matter. There is a lot of speculation to the nutritional value of sprouts. So back several years when the revived craze of sprouting started, we at Fertrell wanted to know what is the value. I attached a chart of measured nutritional value of wheat sprouts for seven day. A sample was taken to the lab each day for analysis. You will see that nutritional values most important to monogastric animals – chickens decreased each day from when it was a grain.

I am not trying to burst anyone’s bubble. There are excellent nutritional factors to any green plant tissue that we will never fully understand. But not as much as the “Hype” is claiming. The Natural vitamins, Chlorophyll, enzymes and other constituents of the succulent plant are as good as it gets! But the labor is a factor. If you have 1 to 2 hours a day to manage sprouts that is great! But if you time has significant value to you and a factor in your decision to making sprouts. You will find that you can go buy organic baby spinach at the grocery store for your chickens and be financially ahead versus growing your own sprouts.  The baby spinach would have as good of nutritional value as the 7 days sprouts.

It really comes down to the time and equipment investment of growing the sprouts. If you have the time go for it.

Jeff Mattocks

 

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