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From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: A question on bulk seed...
Message-ID: <2800AEEC.29D6@intercon.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 17:57:00 GMT
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In article <5APR91.19332754@uc780.umd.edu> greg@uc780.umd.edu writes:

>(1)  What are your experiences with freezing seed?  Does this degrade the
>     nutritional value of the seed?

Yes.  Not to mention the fact that most bulk seed is filled with contaminants.
If you do a bacterial culture on *most* bird seed, you will have a culture
plate that looks totally nuts.  The only safe seed is seed that is cleaned.
Preferably, twice.  Kellog seed is one of these and is marked with a 
freshness date.