my chickens love the oats leftover that the goats dont eat and the soaked milo barely mix. i dont feed pellets any longer just fodder and whole seeds and oyster shells.
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I feed my flock "horse rations" as you put it, LOL, as an occasional treat. They seem to enjoy it every now & then, but aren't overly enthusiastic about sweet feed. I havent heard of, nor had any undue health concerns with this being a (small) part of their diet.So if scratch is just a treat, is there anything wrong with giving them Horse rations that I'm already buying?
I'm trying to cut down on all the different bins of feed I'm collecting with each animal I add to the farm
I have read that as well, but then also read several different nutritional experts say this was a fallacy - an old wives tale that is still being falsely passed around. For what its worth, I live in one of the hottest places in America & my chickens eat scratch year round without issue.I thought I had read somewhere to NOT give scratch when the weather warms up. I thought I read where it was good to give when the weather was cold because their bodies warm up trying to digest.
Same here, they will run each other over to get to it!Chicks that don't eat cracked corn ? Mine act like it is the greatest thing ever we call it "chicken crack" lol!