peas

My 2-year-old Pekin duck Cotton developed peritonitis, apparently from internal laying, while I was busy caring for a family medical emergency for a week. Then she stopped walking so I took her to the vet yesterday where they told me she also had a lung infection. She was also pretty underweight...

This is my first post and my first time with chickens. They won’t eat the “animal feed” quality barley I put in their food mix. Its unhulled. Is this normal? They always have a pile of the barley on the ground next to their feeder. Should I stop buying unhulled grains for them or will they grow...

I have a couple Knuckle Purple Hull Bush Pea plants growing and wanted to know if the chickens can eat the hulls or the pea itself, cooked of course. If they can eat it, then I'll plant some more. Thanks so much!!

I'm researching making my own chicken feed, and I see a lot of people using split peas in their feed as a protein source. But other people say that peas shouldn't be given to chickens raw, presumably because of the lectins. But other people seem to actively do so without issues. What do you all...

They loves peas

Hi! I have been feeding Scratch&Peck grower to my little flock and am happy with it except: they will not eat the yellow peas! I mix up the powdery leftovers every few days with a dollop of yoghurt and water so they get the whole nutrition, but they still pick around those peas. Of course this...

I usually feed my birds (I have geese, turkeys, meat birds and layers in the same coop, soon to be separated but for now together) a 4 way mix of Oat, peas, barely and wheat. I also add in layer crumble and some oyster shell for my layers. The local feed supply however is out of wheat and my...

So I'm following a recipe I found online but I've tried split peas and lentils and my chickens won't eat either of them. What could I replace them with? The recipe is something like this (I have it written down exactly outside but not fully in my head yet) 5 cups wheat, 5 cups steel cut oats, 5...

We have 70 hens. I found an ad in the local paper advertising homemade chicken feed. Can you tell me what you would have mixed as far as ratios and types of grains? I am no expert and don't really understand how it all works. I do want to keep protein quite high: around 19-22%. What would you...