Is cooked rice ok ?

[I*Eat*Chickens*Yum]

I cooked way too much rice. Can I give the cooked rice to my hens ? I am guessing it is ok but I just wanted to ask. Thanks to you all ! This is such an awesome site with totally awesome people !

 

[jnjross]

yep! mine get it allll the time

 

[I*Eat*Chickens*Yum]

cool. thanks for such a fast response. Like I said, the people like you, on this sight are awesome !

 

[DTchickens]

i have heard you can even feed chickens uncooked rice... a lot of people say "NO!" because of the little birds that "blow up" from eating rice then drinking water. but have never heard of it happening in chickens..

 

[jnjross]

if you check the tags on your feed most layer and starter mixes have rice

 

[Mahonri]

I've seen pigeons die that eat uncooked rice.

 

[al6517]

Gave my ladies our leftover rice tonight, yea it is great they love it!!!. Uncooked rice in small fowl like pigeon is not a good idea, thier digestive tracts are not the same as chickens, I just would not do it for safety sake.

 

[Glendalemike]

Yes Pigeons do die from it. Didnt know until we noticed them falling form the sky. Their insides blew up

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Birds dying from consuming uncooked rice is nothing more than an urban legend...which has been disputed by many scientific sources including Ned Johnson, the curator of ornithology at the University of California, Berkeley.

 

[tammyk222]

I feed our girls our leftover cooked rice and they go crazy for it! Its always the first thing they go for. I figure its coz it must look like maggots or something lol