Growing fodder for chickens

[Aphrael]

http://www.citygirlchickens.com/things_chickens_should_not_eat.html Found this on what not to feed chickens, mine like tomato though and had no ill effects

Mine love tomatoes also, the article says tomatoe leaves though and I've never seen them eat the leaves in the garden, just the tomatoes.

Mine love tomatoes, too. They also occasionally eat the leaves and there has never been a problem. Mine will eat almost anything green including ivy and ice plant. I used to have a problem with an overgrowth of both but my chicken weeders have taken care of that for me.

The tomato fruit is perfectly fine to feed chickens, and most of them love it. However, tomato (along with potato) are members of the nightshade family and the green parts (leaves, stems) of them are toxic. They should never be fed to chickens.

 

[crazypoultrychx]

I was looking at wheat. Barley is hard to grow here. I want to do alfalfa and amaranth but they're uber expensive.

amaranth is only expensive to start....if you harvest your own seeds its UBER cheap....

 

[crazypoultrychx]

can anyone give me an idea on how much you feed per day??

 

[michaelf]

I understand that when I go into my feed store and ask for wheat - I'm to specify "Feed" Grade and not "seed" grade ?
I read early  on in the thread that the seed grade might be treated with chemicals.

When I went into the local feed store and asked for "feed" grade wheat, the guy looked at me like I had asked him for a dead cat or something.
I don't think i am using the right terms.

Be careful some feed wheat is heat treated and becomes inactive to growth. But is fine to use as a feed, but not planting. I ran into it once. You will have to read or ask if it has been heat treated.

 

[crazypoultrychx]

nevermind.....

 

[ArtGirl]

We didn't run into the heat treated stuff here. We just asked if they had whole wheat or barley and then decribed what we needed it for. I think that you would have better luck at a feed store because they put on less stuff on feed seed than growing seed.

 

[Kassaundra]

I do sprouts rather then true fodder, but mine all love the stuff, will chose it over almost any other food or treat available.





Just try and hide the sprout bag while you do something else and see how far that gets you! lol

 

[ChickensRDinos]

I have seen those sprouting bags and have always wondering exactly now they work. Thanks for the great pics!

 

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[PetRock]

The tomato fruit is perfectly fine to feed chickens, and most of them love it. However, tomato (along with potato) are members of the nightshade family and the green parts (leaves, stems) of them are toxic. They should never be fed to chickens.

I don't intentionally feed mine tomato leaves. They just occasionally get into the garden and help themselves. Tomato leaves are not on the top of their preferred list, however, so that's good.