Can Chickens eat Sweet Corn

[ShellyLynnW]

Can chickens eat sweet corn? I assume so but just making sure. If they can, can the corn be eaten cooked as well as raw and do the kernels have to be cracked.

Thanks!

-CB78

Ok, I know this has been awhile since asked... But, chickens certainly will eat something poisonous!! I had someone put rat poison out where my chickens free range (CLEARLY,I was NOT happy about this), and before I knew about it, and was able to get it cleaned up, they ate it up like candy!! Laugh if you will, but they ate A LOT, so I prayed and prayed for my girls!! So did my children. Praise Jesus, they were ok, and that was months ago, so the praying worked! But, if it tastes good to them, I have found they will eat it! Btw, this is in response to whomever commented that chickens won't eat anything poisonous, not to the one that my reply recorded??

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

My father had chickens when I was a kid, and one of the major drivers for him getting them was that he raised a LOT of sweet corn in his large garden.

Corn likes a high nitrogen fertilizer, and chickens are REALLY good at making garden scraps (including the little bits of corn left on the corn cobs from all the corn we ate for dinner) into high nitrogen fertilizer.

Obviously, the chickens got other food too (garden season is far too short up here in the northeast), but the chickens feeding the garden and the garden feeding the chickens always struck me as doing "sustainability" the right way!

 

[JerryR708]

This is off the topic. I had leftover buttermilk in the freezer from making banana bread. So I decided to use it up and make corn bread for the chickens. Recipes call for a small amount of buttermilk and rather than toss the rest, I just premeasure and put it in zip lock baggies. They go nuts over that JIFFY corn bread, but is it good for them to eat?

 

[Kyheco]

Can chickens eat a squirrel sweet corn log from Tractor Supply?

 

[nuthatched]

Can chickens eat a squirrel sweet corn log from Tractor Supply?

Can? Yes. Should? No, absolutely not.

 

[cassie]

Can chickens eat sweet corn? I assume so but just making sure. If they can, can the corn be eaten cooked as well as raw and do the kernels have to be cracked.

Thanks!

-CB78

Chickens are scavengers. They can and will eat almost anything. They do avoid things that are bad for them.