Can you feed chickens uncooked rice?

[Habibs Hens]

i would suggest cooked rice as its softer so will process quicker and you wont get the possible issue of sour or impacted crop

 

[Ted n Ms]

I have shot ducks over a Louisiana Rice field that would be stuffed with rice.

 

[Ruarc]

What an incorrect statement. You are so very wrong.
BTW my healthy chickens LOVE lots of (uncooked brown) rice.
It's a treat they eat greedily from my hands preferring it to corn, wheat, oats and barley (all which are offered routinely).
It's how I greet them often - with a treat of rice.
Bloating birds - what a farce! As if dry rice would bloat when dry corn and other grains would not.
~Ruarc

 

[Ruarc]

You're hysterical

 

[Quyen Le]

When I was young, my aunt's family gave uncooked rice to the chickens all the time in large amount. None ever had any issue.

 

[nok13]

all asian chickens eat rice. our thai fighting chickens eat rice (both sticky rice and jasmine rice, and all the left over rice we dont eat during the day. we dont eat bread at home since i have a thai husband)...

however, my white ex battery house chickens dont like the rice quite so much... maybe its dna programming in european type chickens and asian type chickens, or exposure from day one to rice or bread./feed....

 

[Ruarc]

My French chickens (Morans...Euro, not Asian) prefer rice. Medium grain brown rice raw. When I cook it somewhat (slightly less water so cooked "firm" with bit of salt and some oyster shell mixed in) they still llike it that way too, but with less enthusiasm. Prefer rice over (organic-non GMO) corn, red wheat, barley, rolled oats...all which are part of their routine diet. This brown rice is inexpensive.

 

[Hollow Point]

I was born and raised in the rice capital of the world. My father's family farmed rice and soybeans my entire life. That is all my chickens eat is rough rice from fields that wasn't sold. My chickens lay year round and I actually give eggs away all the time. A chickens gizzard breaks down the rice.

 

[LeJeune1]

I too am out of the rice fields, and chickens will eat rice, cooked, uncooked, hulled or not. I do feed them layed pellets, but they like lots of other stuff too- like us )

 

[J in SoCal]

My chickens eat rice cooked and uncooked. Brown, short and long grain white, Jasmine, they don't care what kind it is. If they can digest the corn in the scratch, my rice can't possibly hurt them. I would like to say they prefer mustard and collard greens.