Acorns from English Oaks- safe for chickens?

[MamaDragon]

OK, I'm obviously not on the same page as y'all.....

I'm talking about one large 1/2 bale of dehydrated alfalfa... comes shrink-wrapped, about 15' square.

I've never seen or heard of alfalfa "cubes", nor do we have a "large feed store or mill" anywhere closer than 50 miles.

I'm in a rinky-dink town of 10,000. We've got Wal-Mart, 2 feed stores, 3 grocery stores, 2 hardware stores, 6 liquor stores, more churches that you can shake a stick at, and not much else.

How would I FIND a feed mill? Pilgrims Pride has a mill 30 miles from here, but they won't sell to the general public... for their operators only.

Some days it sucks to live in the boonies!!

Kathy

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

We have two heritage oaks, the wild turkeys, squirrels and the raccoons I know eat them, along with deer, ours chickens don't pay them any attention.

 

[sdshoars]

hey mamadragon, at least you have a walmart, lol. i live in a town of 400. no walmart. no nothing. lol

 

[Kung Foo Chicken]

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alfalfa cubes are usually small square or rectangle compressed shrink wrapped alfalfa sometimes sold as rabbit feed. Some of the large chain feed stores carry them but, not ours. One has to go to the pet store most of the time to get one here.

As for acorns my chickens won't eat them unless I crack the shell for them which is tedious considering our oak is a white oak with tiny acorns.

 

[AnthonyT]

My birds eat pretty much anything that looks like food, but I raise color range broilers. They will try to eat blue jeans, shoes, you hands if you get them to low. If it looks edible they will grab it!
I live in a town of 2,500 and there are more feed mills than you can shake a stick at plus 2 TSCs within 20 minutes. If you have any type of chain farm store they should have or can get bags of alfalfa cubes. Even some Wally Worlds carry them in the pet section, for rabbit and gp treats. Much cheaper at the farm store though. Just looked online and a 50lb bag of them at TSC is $12.99.