How do you feed OATS to chickens?

[Chris09]

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You don't have to cook oats. I feed it to them either raw or I soak them over a night or two. When I soak them I will either use water or apple juice ( apple juice being better ).
To soak them all you have to do is add the amount of oats that you think you are going to use to a bucket then add water/apple juice to cover them about 2 or 3 inches. By the second day most if not all of the liquid should be soaked up by the oats.


Chris

 

[X2Farm]

I use whole oats (uncooked) as part of my regular feed mix. The chickens LOVE em!

Chris.. I like that suggestion of soaking the oats...especially in the apple juice. I'll hafta try that, thanks!

 

[Olive Hill]

Oh good heavens! No you do not have to cook oats for your chickens. They're chickens, people! Seriously! An oat is a seed, birds eat seeds, chickens are birds.

 

[Judy]

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Yup. Took two pages of posts to get to this.

Cooking I guess would be a treat. I guess. Not so sure they would even prefer it.

 

[lorieMN]

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[Stacykins]

Man, this makes me want to sow some white oats for my future chickens

 

[Bill D]

I was about to say - I don't cook or soak anything - just give it to them and they love it. Sometimes I think we make this chicken thing harder than it really is...

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I feed whole oats straight from the bag. Mixed with whole corn and wheat and fed in a tube feeder.

They are very high in fiber so there's a limit to how much they'll eat in a day, but they like them.

 

[bluere11e]

Whole oats are great for chickens. You don't have to cook them.. You can if you want though.. I'm sure the price of oats is going to go through the roof again as well..along with corn....

 

[fishnet1971]

um... now I advise you get the Quaker instant oatmeak, preferablethe apples and spice kind. make sure you cook it to the correct temperature to get the correct consistancy. Let it cool down so as not to burn their little tongues when you spoon it out to them. Sometimes you can add a few nicely browned pieced of bacon on the side. Maybe a slice of toast with butter and jelly?

take it down to the fluffy butt hut and enter SLOWLY. for heavens sake they are still snoring at this hour of 9 AM. Wake them with the smell of warm oatmeal and bacon.