Can chickens eat rice hulls and rice chaff?

[kuntrygirl]

Can chickens eat rice hulls or rice chaff? I saw an ad in our local paper and was wondering.

Pic of rice chaff

 

[zazouse]

Well it won't hurt them but i don't think they will eat much of it, i have some here and it is great for deep litter method in a coop.

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

It is litter - not feed.

And a great litter it is!

 

[kuntrygirl]

ok great. i couldn't think of why this person posted rice hull and chaff. now I know. thanks

 

[dfriloux]

I'm about to start using rice hulls in the top part of my coop for nests and below the roost. I have sand in the run portion of the coop and it's working fine, but I'm getting a tiny bit worried that the sand is a bit dusty and am thinking about adding some rice hulls on top of it. Is that overkill, do you think?

 

[Denninmi]

There may be little bits of rice in it, but overall it would have next to no nutritional value. If its really cheap, it would be sort of litter with a fringe benefit, I'm sure they would enjoy picking through it for whatever bits of rice they could find in there. But I certainly wouldn't pay more for it than for the comparable amount of any other litter such as pine shavings.