I'd let them, and try them myself, if it wasn't that I don't know what dirty warehouse they've rolled around in. I buy human-grade black oil sunflower seeds for us to eat, either roasted or raw (to roast myself). Their shells are thinner and much easier to crack than the shells on the striped sunflower seeds commonly sold for human consumption in the US. In other countries (that are more into eating sunflower seeds), the black ones are more common, because they are easier to open, and they are selectively grown to get large, too (not like the tiny ones we buy for birds here).
There is no corn in it, aside from sunflower seeds I couldn't tell you what the other seeds are. I tossed 1/4 of a cup where they're always scratching up the dirt for grass roots and they ate all the sunflower seeds but didn't really eat anything else, though I didn't sit and watch long to see if they went for anything else.
The kids love it for some reason, now that they know where I store it I've caught them climbing up in the closet to get more lol thinking about finding a recipe similar to pregnancy/nursing cookies that uses all seeds but get food grade seeds so they stay out of the bird feed lol. There are worse things they could be eating, I don't discourage trying new things but not animal foodI don't think a tiny bit will hurt the chickens, but it isn't nutritionally designed to nourish them, either. I wouldn't feed it to my chickens.
BTW, how did the kids like it?
