Green grass for chickens in the winter.

darrylv50

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I was thinking about growing sprouts for the girls this winter but the last time I was at Rural King I saw a 5# bag of grass seed for only a couple of dollars. I bought it and thought if it didn't work out for the chicks I would sprinkle it on my yard in the spring. I started it in a mason jar etc. like for the sprouts but it became all clumped up so I transferred the rooted seeds to a flat carryout food container and put it in the kitchen window. In a few more days I had some nice dark green baby grass. I have since started 3 more. The girls (I have seven) went wild. I now just start them in a flat container keeping it moist and placing it in the sun when it starts to sprout. I think it will work out well and it's very easy costing next to nothing to grow.
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That sounds like a great idea. You could use other type of seeds as well, things that chickens like and are good for them. You could actually make an inexpensive greenhouse out of clear poly sheeting and strips of ripped old lumber, grow grass, purslane, mustard greens, comfrey, under it, then turn the chickens loose every few hours per week. call it the play pen.
 
The birds will likely try to eat any seeds that don't germinate so just make sure the seed isn't coated with a fertilizer/mold inhibitor/insecticide/etc. A lot of grass seed for lawns is.
 
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That is a good suggestion. I just got plain old grass seed but you are right, many of them are. Thanks.
 
I like that idea. May try it for next year because right now we are buried in snow. :(
 

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