Does anyone freeze grass?

[Attack Chicken]

You can buy pet grass st Petsmart or Petco in the winter for them. Costs about $3 but they love it.

 

[joebryant]

Quote:
A buddy turned four pounds that another buddy gave me into butter and made brownies.

 

[carousel]

you can grow flats of wheat grass, don't need to buy it at the pet store.
keep in a sunny window? I grow wheat grass all year roundfor the girls and we don't have snow.

 

[joebryant]

Geeze o' Pete, you ladies SPOIL your chickens. I don't mind raising greens of all kinds in the garden for them and collecting through the winter from under the snow if the plants last, but going through what some of you do... Hope the kale and collards in the garden last: otherwise, ...

 

[Kung Foo Chicken]

Quote:
When you get the munchies do the chickens suddenly go from friend to food? Tiptoe through the run laughing and calling them.

I saved over some dried from cutting the lawn. We basically have weeds so they love it.

 

[digitS']

Quote:

Joel Salatin claimed (if I remember right) that his feed costs were reduced 30% by pasturing meat birds on mixed grass & legumes.

I have had the problem of impacted crop with stemmy hay. But, saving lawn clippings . . . . freezing would probably be more fool-proof than drying since chopped grass begins to spoil so quickly. And, it sounds economical and reasonable to me.

I wish this idea had shown up back when my lawn was actually growing.

Steve

 

[the1much]

Quote:
When you get the munchies do the chickens suddenly go from friend to food? Tiptoe through the run laughing and calling them.

I saved over some dried from cutting the lawn. We basically have weeds so they love it.

i go out to the yard,, and holla "chicken nuggetttttsssss" ,, every chicken runs and hides

 

[Ol'FashionHen]

the1much wrote:

i freeze mine,,,hehe,, but its not for my birds

for some odd reason

when I seen this post, you replying-automatically popped in my head.

 

[the1much]

 

[BeardedChick]

I have had the problem of impacted crop with stemmy hay.

Couldn't you just soak the hay so it's sort of reconstituted? Would that be less likely to create an impaction?

Will chickens eat soaked hay cubes in winter?​