Pheasant Fact Friday!💡
The energy available to a pheasant from its diet is dependent: 1) on the digestive ability of the bird, 2) the amount of food eaten, and 3) the digestibility of the food. Let’s consider #2. How much the hen eats affects her digestive efficiency. With a normal meal, the hen may be able to use 80% of the corn’s energy, while with a heavy meal, perhaps only 70%. Now consider #3. Some foods have more usable energy than other foods. Corn has 3818 kcl/kg, grain sorghum 3614, wheat 2800, and oats 2500. Use of soybeans as a food plot is questionable since soybeans contain trypsin. Trypsin acts as a digestive inhibitor, lowering the pheasant’s ability to extract the bean’s energy.
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