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I routinely used oats in the intact grain form as part of the feed mixture. The fiber content is considered desirable when green vegetative plant intake is low. I monitor fecal appearance of free-range birds in top health and found feces contains a great deal of fiber and cecal poo's are...

I must qualify the acorn statement. Their are many kinds of oak trees around here and most have acorns no bigger than my thumbnail which are easy to ingest. The really big bur oak acorns are too big except for maybe turkeys and ostriches to swallow whole.

The grinder may not be all that important so long as you are not pushing your birds like commercial producers do. My brother feeds only with intact grains and his birds look very good. He, like myself, always makes certain grit is available. They are well adapted for handling intact grains...

Get used to the learning part; I still am as well. Watch your birds closely and you will see subtle changes in behavior associated with different foods. While you are still green (open minded) get some live meal worms and give them singly to chicks / juveniles. They will go nuts for them and...

You are over reacting to soak oats. All will be fine. Weight till winter to use them. Crop swelling / distension is normal following a large meal. It is usually at fullest about time birds go to roost. Peas I am not familiar with but if they are like intact soybeans they pose an...

I do not intentionally feed such young birds soaked oats although they usually get ahold of some. By six weeks, if standard sized birds, they should be able to handle even intact corn kernels so long as not too much and they are provided grit. My rule of thumb with incomplete food types (does...

I do mine in 5-gallon buckets for the fermentation route. On a volume to volume basis, for every gallon of oats about 3 gallons of water from tap are used. Upon mixing by hand, all is stored inside garage where temperature ranges 40 to 60 F for three days. Each day mix is mixed by hand...

To control irritation of crop coming from use of whole oats, consider soaking them. Soaking can go two routes. First I do where seeds swell with water and fermentation starts producing some alcohol. Second is where seeds actually germinates which activates some vitamins. Both are valuable to...

Oat groats have had the hard outer coating removed. The oater coating is what makes consumption by us difficult. The removal of the hull increases the nutritional density with respect to available protein and energy. My chicks by about 5 weeks start eating intact seeds including oats so you...

I use whole as a supplement to free-range foraging this time of year. To me it is more of an energy source. My oaks are soaked to approximately 48 hours prior to feeding.