Where do I go to analyze part or all of a plant for nutritional value?

Generally01

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Where do I go to analyze part or all of a plant for nutritional value?
Is there a lab that will test it for me or have most plants already been tested for nutritional value. Thanks for any help.
 

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I just started researching it a little more and with the thought in mind of each seed having a specific dominant nutrient..... Would it be a possibility of combining a lot of weed's seeds(that most people spray to get rid of) to make a perfect feed.........
 

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Possibly, although if you're feeding it to fowl then there's a good chance the seed will need rendered unviable by some means. Otherwise you may as well combine, clean and drill the seed into the ground; their rather primitive intestinal tract is very good at seed transfer, largely responsible for the regeneration of our native plants in NZ
 

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So would it change its structure enough to grind it to a powder, and reclump it as they do with commercial grain feed. Wouldn't be that hard to make a machine to do it as far as effort goes. But I think the harder part would supplementing for essential nutrients that you couldn't find in your weeds(unwanted plants).
 

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