Do soybeans kill birds?

Fishing701

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I was wondering what happened when a bird fills up on beans and then they beans expand in there stomachs. Just a thought. The more soybeans I see the less I see pheasants. Sean some dead ones along the way too.
 


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They do just fine as long as they take Beano with them.
 

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Soybeans contain a trypsin inhibitor. Trypsin is a protease in the intestine that aids in digestion. When birds (and mammals to a lesser degree) eat soybeans that haven’t been cooked/heated enough to “disable” the trypsin inhibitor, it can cause irreparable harm to the animal’s guts. Finally. All that book learnin pays off!
 

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Soybeans contain a trypsin inhibitor. Trypsin is a protease in the intestine that aids in digestion. When birds (and mammals to a lesser degree) eat soybeans that haven’t been cooked/heated enough to “disable” the trypsin inhibitor, it can cause irreparable harm to the animal’s guts. Finally. All that book learnin pays off!

I think all the peanut butter cups I just ate must have had that stuff in them. I feel irreparable bubble guts right now.
 

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I was wondering what happened when a bird fills up on beans and then they beans expand in there stomachs. Just a thought. The more soybeans I see the less I see pheasants. Sean some dead ones along the way too.

That's what the gizzard is for.
 


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That's what the gizzard is for.

Correct. Birds have gizzards that grind them up before they reach the stomach. They eat gravel to aid in the grinding. That's why you don't see corn in pheasant poop.
 

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saw soybeans in pheasant crops all the time when I lived elsewhere
 

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Killed maNy roosters full of soybeans. I don't think they hurt the birds. My 2 cents.
 
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There has been a couple of instances of die-offs of Canada geese in Missouri in 1969 and 1979. The esophagus becomes impacted with soybeans. Look it up . Robert Jarvis author.
 


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I’ve shot quite a few pheasants and grouse in and along soybean fields and they had a crop full of them. So in a roundabout way I guess you could say soybeans were their demise.
 

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Only if you reload your own shells with soybeans instead of shot. :;:smokin
 

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There has been a couple of instances of die-offs of Canada geese in Missouri in 1969 and 1979. The esophagus becomes impacted with soybeans. Look it up . Robert Jarvis author.

So, did the geese die from the soybeans or because around the Thanksgiving time they overate? The esophagus impacted with soybeans could have caused suffocation.

I have been told by a biologist that waterfowl get very little nutrition from soybeans because of the way they digest the bean. Not sure about other birds.
 

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https://www.pfwebsites.org/chapter/browncountypforg/files/Pheasant Ecology.pdf

This is an interesting read. Though pheasants can survive on them, it doesn't appear that they are a great food source for them for reasons others have discussed above. They can adapt and eat them....we all know that they love picking a soybean field that is blown clear when everything else is covered in snow.

I know the jokes are made in jest, but the whole cover scenario is what really kills birds around soybeans. We raised a bunch of birds last year and had a lot of beans around. The hawks were murderous on the pheasants out in the open. Tough to hide in bean stubble, if you can call it that. There were dead birds everywhere.........
 


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