Cattle feed

[U_Stormcrow]

I second what @U_Stormcrow said.
Use it as a treat...a tiny amount every now and then.

Agree. That's a LOT of fiber. As I was commenting to another poster earlier this evening, there isn't much research of how much is "too much", but most commercial feeds for chickens have fiber from maybe 3% at the low end to 6% at the high. Your 12% livestock feed is 3.5 to 7x that. and unlike humans needing to be more "regular", extra fiber doesn't benefit a chicken as it does us.

Scratch/treat, not every day. Small quantities.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I second what @U_Stormcrow said.
Use it as a treat...a tiny amount every now and then.

Or get another cow

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Or get another cow

Tasty, them cow.

 

[NatJ]

we just butchered a steer and have a bag of cattle ration left over. Can chickens eat this?

Use it as a treat...a tiny amount every now and then.

How many chickens do you have? Are they laying hens, meat birds, or young chicks?

A "tiny amount" is based on some amount per chicken, so a large flock might go through it pretty quickly, even with each bird getting only a small amount per day.

I would probably not give it to young chicks at all, but I would give small amounts to laying hens.

If I had meat birds that were close to butchering age, I might let them have as much of the cattle feed as they want, because they would be dead too soon for it to matter much. Or I might not let them have any at all, because it might slow their rate of growth.