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My son works at a Chinese restaurant and when he works closing brings me the leftover rice that they usually throw in the dumpster. I mix it in a 5 gal. bucket with those big horse alfalfa pellets then barely cover with water and my girls go nuts the next day when I sling the green slop out for them!

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I feed my all the time with no problem. I cooked rice with hot pepper to keep them warm in the winter.
 
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I'm glad to hear that rice won't hurt my girls; we eat rice ourselves and have given them the leftovers* 2 or 3 times/week for over the year we've had them. If it supposed to kill them, my hens didn't get the memo...


* most times it even has rice and garlic in it, along with an assortment of meat and veggies
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The only comment on rice I can think of for now is that once I read a study where they fed chickens ONLY WHITE rice and they died of a vitamin deficiency. But another flock was fed BROWN rice (with all the nutrients) and they survived.

So, white rice is kind of like white bread...a treat only. Brown rice would be a meal for a chicken.
 
Neil Grassbaugh said:
Copy of a post of mine from October 2010

Of course it kills them! They bloat up like toads! Horrible death.

This is why there are no seed or grain eating wild birds in any areas of the world that produce rice. They would get out into the fields, eat the rice and kill them deddern a plastic Christmas Tree. Why do you think that there are no wild birds that would feed on rice living in the rice growing regions of the world. AK, TX, LA not a one! Nor are there any in those areas of Africa, South America, or, for heavens sake, of Asia where rice is raised extensively.

This was all proven years ago. Why do you suppose that for the longest time there were never any sparrows around churches in big cities where there was a wedding or two every week. Rice killed them off as fast as they could fly in from the 'burbs. That is why we now use bird seed. To save the sparrows!

Primitive man in South Eastern Asia had to guard the jungle fowl day and night to keep them from eating rice so that they could domesticate the buggers.
My gosh, why do you suppose all those ckickens are kept in buildings all over the rice growing areas of the world. It is to keep them from eating the dam rice!

I don't think that a lot of you realize what a serious uphill battle this has been for since the dawn of time.

I'm really glad that so much time has been spent reaffirming the "common sense" elements of this discussion.

And ya wanna know what is even more detrimental to chicken health- I think internet dunderheads.
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You are being sarcastic, right?
 

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