feeding chickens spent brewing grains

The brewery I've been talking to currently gives their grains to a donkey farmer up here but I'm gonna start getting a bag or two every couple weeks come spring so it's good to know it will work out
 
Chickens like the malt from the brewery, but they pick through it and get something out, then leave the rest. That composts.
On the Hops they dont like it much. Ducks wont eat either one. Im wondering if they would like it better dry? If someone has success with spent grains from a brewery, let me know. Im wondering what the PH is too, for the garden
 
This is great feed for ruminants (sheep, goats, cattle etc) and we feed it daily to our ruminant livestock, but according to the Poultry Sci department at Cal Poly, SLO, chickens cannot digest barley. Wheat is OK. I have fed it before to some of our chickens and geese; it's OK once in a while but long-term is probably not such a good idea unless it is wheat. Good luck!
 
Someone already said it but I will repeat because it is great. If you freeze the grains in small to medium size containers, you can give it to them like a suet block over time.
I started doing this with my grains so that I don't overload them on the sweet grains and they stop eating the layer pellets. I think of it more like a treat for them rather than feed.
 

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