Can I feed my chickens Parrot food.

[Fairy Godmother]

I am pretty new to this backyard chicken raising, I have 2 Cuckoo Marans and 2 Golden Sexlinks which I love dearly. As usual I love spoiling them and am always looking for additional food sources. We are not huge vegetable eaters but I do keep them in cabbage, salad greens, some leftovers and scratch. I was looking at parrot food the other day and thought it looked pretty good...sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, peppers and other stuff. Does anyone out there feed their chickens parrot food?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

It is certainly a safe treat option, yes, As with other "specialty" feeds it can be rather pricey, an alternative is to buy "scratch" that is packaged in larger quantities and sold for poultry -- there are several different formulas out there, so it can take some comparing to find the ones with the whole grains, sunflower seeds, etc vs. just grain millings.