Lawrence-- Most people who grow millet for bread grow varieties of pearl millet, while bird seed generally contains something called proso millet. Your volunteers may be of both the red and the white varieties of proso-- you won't know until they mature.
The best way to tell whether your millet is worthwhile to consider as a crop would be to figure out how to remove the chaff, grind it up and make some bread from it. Otherwise it could be useful in attracting birds.
Here's something on the distinction between proso and pearl:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ncnu02/v5-100.html
Nutritional differences between the strains can probably be found somewhere on the web. I suspect the main difference with proso is that it can be grown in the Dakotas and upper midwest. Most millet varieties developed for human consumption occur in tropical Africa and Asia.
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