Ha, so I'm not the only who has trouble with these! In all honesty, I believe I bought the split peas to use as a source of protein when I was mixing my own chicken feed. But the chickens picked out the green split peas and left them so I never got around to using the bag of yellow ones, though they ARE human grade ones, not animal ones. So see, even the chickens aren't into split peas...not fit for the birds, haha.