anyone feed oats?

[Poohbear]

With WHOLE OATS or RE-CLEANED OATS. You can put oats in a bucket (2-5-10-55 gal) and add water until it completely covers the oats. Cover loosely and leave it one day. Next day come back and fill bucket with water again. Cover it loosely and leave overnight. The third day, you can dip the oats out and feed it to your fowl. By then it is starting to ferment and they will LOVE it! Don't worry about it going bad either. It won't go bad even though it smells like it is fermented. Just add more oats to the water and feed again. Once again, this is for WHOLE UN-ROLLED OATS. Sometimes called re-cleaned oats. Jmo

 

[Balfour Girl]

I think I've spoiled my chickens... they only seem to eat when I'm feeding them by hand! Luckily I only have three. I go down to their coop every morning (today I had to shovel a path through 4 feet of snow that the plow piled up) and afternoon. I sit on a milk crate with food in each hand. They love the oiled sunflower seeds that I bought for the wild birds, but I also feed them oatmeal mixed with yogurt, saskatoon berries, lettuce, wheat, high protein mash and oyster shell. I love the way they get oatmeal and yogurt on their beak and wipe it off on my hand! They're so cute...

 

[EweSheep]

sometimes those cleaned oats would be called "racehorse oats" but I dont find them anymore in feed stores. Its expensive but less hulls on them.

 

[sarabeth]

what about sunflower seeds a friend gave them to me he works in a grocery store and they busted a bag and he brought them to me (they are for birds not the salted kind) will these be ok to feed?

 

[AngelzFyre]

They're fine to feed but very high in fat so use them mixed in your scratch or as treats. I wouldn't feed them solely sunflower seeds.
I order organic sunflower seeds off Ebay and mix a handful of them with oatmeal and buttermilk and they literally attack the pan when they see me coming!