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post #11 of 24

I give mine almost everything.

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http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart

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post #12 of 24

How timely for me. I just came here to ask this.

I have about 20 lbs of dirty, uncooked, long grain rice that was in my ferrets dig box. Instead of just throwing it away, I can give it to the chickens, in small amounts, mixed with their regular scratch grains.

Correct?

post #13 of 24
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Originally Posted by klutzyruth 

How timely for me. I just came here to ask this.

I have about 20 lbs of dirty, uncooked, long grain rice that was in my ferrets dig box. Instead of just throwing it away, I can give it to the chickens, in small amounts, mixed with their regular scratch grains.

Correct?


I don't know what a ferret dig box is, exactly (playpen?). I might wash it before feeding to chickens, but then again chickens eat poo. To answer your question: Yes it's OK to give to your chickens.

Imp

 

 

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

 

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If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

 

       ― Chief Seattle

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post #14 of 24
Quote:
Originally Posted by Imp 

I don't know what a ferret dig box is, exactly (playpen?).

Imp


It's a rubber maid box that they climb into and dig in. Dirty = ferret hair and dander.

It doesn't matter anyhow. I threw some rice out for them to scratch at and they looked at me like  - What the heck is this?
It's still sitting out on the ground.
I guess they prefer bugs & snails to rice. smile

Chickens, what ya gonna do?

post #15 of 24

give it time mine acted like that at first

post #16 of 24

Okay, I have to weigh in here!  We are rice farmers.  We run a rice drying/storage facility so there is also a lot of rice by-product here.  So my chickens get rice hulls as bedding but there is some rice still in it.  They eat up all of the left over rice that is in it in two days!  We also have "trash" rice which is rice that ends up on the ground and can't be salvaged.  It is only dried, but not otherwise processed so it has the hulls and everything.  They get that too.  I haven't seen one blow up yet.  Also I feed them leftover cooked rice from dinner.  So basically they can eat all rice in any shape or form tongue

Ameraucana, Anacona, Barred Rock, Black Sexlink, Buckeye, Buff Orpington, Buttercup (Sicillian), California White, Delaware, GL Wyandotte, Light Brahma, Maran (Cuckoo), Red Sexlink, Salmon Faverolle, Silver Spangled Hamburg, SL Wyandotte, Speckled Sussex, Turken, Welsummer, +1 beautiful Mutt roo.  Whew.  And soon welcoming 3 goats and a few turkeys.
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Ameraucana, Anacona, Barred Rock, Black Sexlink, Buckeye, Buff Orpington, Buttercup (Sicillian), California White, Delaware, GL Wyandotte, Light Brahma, Maran (Cuckoo), Red Sexlink, Salmon Faverolle, Silver Spangled Hamburg, SL Wyandotte, Speckled Sussex, Turken, Welsummer, +1 beautiful Mutt roo.  Whew.  And soon welcoming 3 goats and a few turkeys.
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post #17 of 24

We live in rice country here in southeast Arkansas too.  You can go down to the river to the grain elevator where they load dried rice on to the barges.  There's frequently a spill or two you can shovel up.  I have several garbage cans full of it.  I have to slap my hands to keep me from throwing out too much cuz they love it!

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post #18 of 24

We have rice with dinner at least once a week and I sit aside a bowl for the chickens. They love it. RICE IS GOOD!

Mother hen to a great husband, 3 kids...2 boys 7 and 11 y/o, 1 girl 9 y/o 1 BO, 6 Golden Wynndotte and 15 EE, 2 dogs.
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Mother hen to a great husband, 3 kids...2 boys 7 and 11 y/o, 1 girl 9 y/o 1 BO, 6 Golden Wynndotte and 15 EE, 2 dogs.
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post #19 of 24
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I always feed my chickens the left overs when I cook rice but never fed them raw rice because of the stories that I heard.  But then I noticed grains of rice in a bag of chicken feed that I was given and I started to wonder about the rice.  Sounds like it's working for many of you and you have been feeding your chickens rice for a while and no ill effects.  That's good to know.

NPIP Certified-115 Chickens (50 chicks), 13 Geese (12 gosling), 19 BR Turkeys (5 poults), 7 Rabbits, 60 Muscovy Duck, 29 Guineas (15 keets), 9 Peafowl, 8 Sheep, 1 Goat and pea, turkey and guinea eggs cooking in the incubator.
 

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NPIP Certified-115 Chickens (50 chicks), 13 Geese (12 gosling), 19 BR Turkeys (5 poults), 7 Rabbits, 60 Muscovy Duck, 29 Guineas (15 keets), 9 Peafowl, 8 Sheep, 1 Goat and pea, turkey and guinea eggs cooking in the incubator.
 

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post #20 of 24
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Originally Posted by Imp 

Rice is perfectly fine for chickens and any other bird, cooked or uncooked. There is an urban legend that raw rice will swell up in the stomach of birds and kill them. This was started back in the 1950's as an April Fools day joke, and it took on a life of it's own when Ann Landers published it in her column. Kinda like the myth that there are pasta trees in Italy. roll

Imp- or are there? wink

Mulia24 has a point. There wouldn't be a bird left alive in Indonesia if rice could kill.


Exactly. ALL grains swell when soaked in water but other grains are routinely fed to birds. It amazes me that so many myths like this are passed along whenall you need to do is think about them to realize they're nonsense.

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