Been sprouting a range of seeds for a while now but I'm wondering if anyone can tell me a type of oat that I can sprout. Thanks.

Do you mean soaking them and feeding them to the birds when they are soaked or actually growing them?

I throw my hulled oats in the garden and they grow, they are just like a grassy thing at the moment, no seeds or anything has been produced. I will be interested to see if it is safe for the birds. My other bird seed I throw in their also and it produces different grasses, the birds love it.

I'm in the process of looking for some nice metal pot things to plant different seeds in... I was considering doing the oats but didn't think they would grow... hmmm might have to now...

Cheers, I will try that Pearce. They seem to appreciate the trouble we go to, do you agree?

Do you mean soaking them and feeding them to the birds when they are soaked or actually growing them?

I throw my hulled oats in the garden and they grow, they are just like a grassy thing at the moment, no seeds or anything has been produced. I will be interested to see if it is safe for the birds. My other bird seed I throw in their also and it produces different grasses, the birds love it.

 

 

Hi Pearce,

 

Not soaked seeds, sprouted seeds. At the moment I'm sprouting Large Parrot Mix which I think consists of Sunflower, Corn, Sorghum, Wheat and some type of Oat. To this I add mung beans. My method is to soak for 12 hours, wash every 12 hours and feed sprouted after 2 days. However I can't see the oats in this mix sprouting hence my question. Which type of oats will readily sprout? I thought hulled oats didn't sprout at all but as you've stated otherwise I'll get a small bag and try for myself.

I would say feeder oats which I think are oats before they are hulled

The oats I have may not be hulled oats. I buy them from a stock shop and they are labeled hulled oats but their is a possibility they are another kind of oat.

I think one of the big breeders i know of soaks/sprouts oats but they arent crushed at all. They are called oat groats or whole groats or something, they are basically the whole grain and he gets them from a horse feed store or stock shop.

I think one of the big breeders i know of soaks/sprouts oats but they arent crushed at all. They are called oat groats or whole groats or something, they are basically the whole grain and he gets them from a horse feed store or stock shop.

 

okay, thanks. I think there is a type of oats here called racehorse oats, they may be the same thing. I'll give them a try and see how they go.

I have a planter box the other side of my hooper on the outside of the avairy. I have noticed that a bunch of seeds that got thrown out of the avairy have started to sprout in that