Dried grass?

[laircy]

Since my chickens do not have access to fresh grass unless I cut it and bring it in, and since the grass currently abundant will be gone in the summer, I am wondering if there is a way to preserve it for later. How might I dry grass, or perhaps more importantly, would they even like dried grass?

 

[Varglet]

Don't think it's possible to "preserve" grass, and they probably wouldn't like dried grass. But you can do sprouted grains for them:

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2014/02/sprouting-grains-for-chickens-fodder.html

 

[seanengler]

I think it depends on what type of dried grass you are throwing for them. Lawn clippings, probably not so much. Hay they would probably like. I toss mine some flakes of hay every now and then and they love it. Our pastures also go to seed and brown up and die off around May-June and I usually cut it all down to a few inches tall and they love scratching through that for the seeds. There's just not much nutritional value in the dried grass itself I don't think.