can chickens eat millet?....

[chickengeorgeto]

Just be sure the millet you feed is not a bird resistant variety. If it is your chickens won't eat it. I don't know but I think that any millet (a form of grain sorghum) intended for human consumption will not be a bird resistant or bird repellant variety.

 

[ashcons]

I buy a variety of bulk grains at the local food co-op and share them with our birds most mornings. They seem to be entertained by scratching at and eating any millet, amaranth, quinoa, red wheat berries, BOSS, flax seeds, steel-cut oats, and whatever else I throw their way - all uncooked. Right now, they're just waiting for the snow to melt off so they can get back up to their chicken antics.

Worms can pass on parasites, but I figure every other organism they get their beaks on can as well (for example, slugs).

 

[dcase81]

Does the millet have to cooked or uncooked? / I have hulled millet from Sprouts.

Thanks,
Denise

 

[Pendragonz]

Does the millet have to cooked or uncooked? / I have hulled millet from Sprouts.

Thanks,
Denise

I would say soak them and let them start sprouting. This starts changing them and makes them more nutritionally available for your birds. That's what I would do.

 

[cooleo]

Did you guys know that worms can kill your chickens if you give them to many their actually poison to them if they eat to many just facts I used to buy worms for my smaller chickens until I found that out

 

[cooleo]

Has anyone ever bought wild bird food and fed to chickens looks like more protein then most scratch feed anyone know?

 

[GC-Raptor]

My scratch grains don't contain seeds, only grains, like barley, rye, wheat and cracked corn. Some people feed black oil sunflower seeds/BOSS, millet and Milo. I do not.

GC

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Did you guys know that worms can kill your chickens if you give them to many their actually poison to them if they eat to many just facts I used to buy worms for my smaller chickens until I found that out

They aren't poison; they are hosts to some parasites. If you're birds free range at all it's likely they are sitting up and eating plenty on their own.

 

[rrlemur]

Just be sure the millet you feed is not a bird resistant variety. If it is your chickens won't eat it. I don't know but I think that any millet (a form of grain sorghum) intended for human consumption will not be a bird resistant or bird repellant variety.

I think you are referring to milo, which is grain sorghum and for which bird-resistant varieties exist. Millet is different.

 

[Rusty Roosterman]

As long as they have access to chick grit or dirt

Mine LOVE millet! AND worms!

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