BIRD HELP

[NanN]

Do you think that you could supplement the food you are giving now with rastrojo, the dry the ground corn stalk feed supplement that is fed to live stock. I feed my horses special horse grain daily mixed in with salvado (wheat germ) and rastrojo moistened with water. I have noticed that when the horses spill their food the birds quickly come in to eat whatever is spilled, and the birds seem to eat everything, even the bits of rastrojo. I am not sure of the nutritional value of the rastrojo for the birds, it is mostly corn stalk and corn leaves not the actual corn and we give it to the horses for fiber to avoid problems with colic but because it contains the leaves of the stalk it does provide some nutritional value - see this article http://www.caes.uga.edu/commodities/fiel...sidues.pdf

One costal of rastrojo is 20 pesos where I buy it from the farmer, and the costals are the size that the 40 kilos of horse feed come in. I have my horses in La Carbonera, which is just past Yerbabuena and the guy with the rastrojo is not too far from there on the dirt road, sort of in the direction of La Trinidad.