Sprouting for your dog, cat and birds of all sizes

[nelloyello11]

This is actually the site where I learned how to grow wheat grass for my zebras. I have some growing now - I will post pics when I get it in the cage for them. They love to play in it!

[Foosa101]

Cindy do you know how long I have to wait to pick them and feed it to the birds?? And I didn't know they could eat soy beans isn't it to big for them??

Cindy and I chopped them in a blender and offered it to our birds - my Goulds didn't like them one bit but some of Cindys finches loved it.

As far a sprouting Soybeans would be excellent as they are a legume and you could just offer it to them as a forage as well.

What I have done and do is: plant my choice of seeds in sterile soil in separate dishes (i.e, brownie pan or another shallow dish at least 2" deep) and allow them to germinate and get about an 1/2" in height and then put them in my cages. I rotate the seeds every other day or there abouts. Earlier if it gets messy or if it starts to turn yellow. If it turns yellow put in back outside, under a heat lamp, or in a window sill so it can conduct photosynthesis and green back up.

Now if you are wanting to plant peas or beans: I would use a ceramic pot, one a little bigger than an african violet sized pot - 8" plus in circumference, and put 2-4 seeds in it at 1" in depth. Water as needed and then, once you have two decent sized sprouts with at least two leaflets, put the whole pot in the cage and rotate as needed. Just continue to let them grow and the birds will browse the forage as desired.

All seed harvested from any plant should be completely dry and will easily fall of the stalk or stem, or if you are referring to beans/peas, then the exterior shell will be very dry, brown, brittle. Basically if it looks like the plant is dead the seeds should be good.