What is the benefit of peanut shells (nothing in them). Are they worth feeding to the deer? They are salted hulls.Anyone know or can help?
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I wouldn't think they would be worth anything since they don't even make cattle feed out of them. What you want to look for is peanut cake. Its very high in protein and made from peanut rejects.
Most of the time the processed shells are used to make the granules you find in like granulized dursban or diazinon used to be. Sometimes it is even used as a binding agent in fertilizers. -
I don't think nature would waste valuable nutrients in a disposable shell. I'd say it would be filler as a feed. Kind of like cottonseed hulls. I don't remember what the real name of the stuff is, but Palmers sells it. We checked the tag and it's got virtually no nutritional value.Comment
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[QUOTE=Jaspro;454263] What you want to look for is peanut cake.
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I bet it would have plenty of fiber though!
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Peanut hulls have very little nutritional value ,around 15-20% total dietary nutrition. Whole corn has a total dietary nutrition value of approximately 88% for comparison . Several years ago we bought a couple tons of goat feed that had a high percentage of peanut hulls in it and we watched our goats wasting away until we switched feed. Not only did they lose weight on it, but I noticed a bunch of little, tiny square pieces of sawdust accumulating where the goats bed at night and upon closer inspection found that it was undigested pieces of peanut hulls that had passed in the goat feces. I'm sure the deer will eat them because of the salt, but you aren't benefitting them nutritionally.
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i heard that pumpkin seeds are high in protein. anybody know if deer would eat them?Comment
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Originally posted by westexasagent View Post
I feel unqualified to answer this question, but Phil, Oprah, and/or Tyra should be able to help ya.Comment
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