- Jul 18, 2013
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Linda, I bought a 50# bag of steamed oats to add to my ff. The stuff is at least 50% outer shells of the oats and the chickens don't eat it but pick out the good stuff. Is there any nutritional value in the hulls or are they pure cellulose? I will grind the stuff up before adding it to the ff if it has anything nutritive to it. What do you think? Is there a better kind of oats? This was all my feed store carried. : )I bought a 50# bag of whole oats. The triple washed kind for racehorses. I was going to sprout them in add to ff. What a wretched experiment that was. They won't touch them even after soaking 48 hr and fermenting. I bought a hand crank grinder. Will grinding them up and adding to ff work? Or grind and throw out like scratch? Same thing with whole corn. Won't eat them whole so I guess I'll be agrinding.