Oatmeal

[Patricia Jane]

Mine look forward to it. I will either add plain yogurt, grapes, apples or just serve it plain. They are happy and spoiled chickens.

 

[tinychicky]

gives 'em a calcium boost if you mix in a little plain yogurt too

i give my flock oatmeal about once a week

 

[Rosaleen]

I add raisins and wheat germ ... Nice and warm ...they love it!

 

[rjking777]

I too give my girls oatmeal, almost daily. Dry if it is warm out and cooked if cold out. I will add raisins and keifer (to the cooked oatmeal). I also reuse my egg shells. I grind them up in the coffee grinder and put them back in with their food.

 

[kla37]

I make oatmeal from steel cut oats, I like the texture better, and I make extra for my girls a couple times a week!

 

[cva34]

Try corn meal mush! esp the kind made out of corn meal with weevils that you found in back of cabinet ...cva34

 

[UKblue1]

Maybe silly questions but do you give them the hot oatmeal in a bowl or pan? Inside or out in the pen? I have 6 hens so how much would you give them at one time?

 

[ginger girl]

I have 6 hens, I give them warm cooked oatmeal mixed with either buttermilk or yogurt, and add some shelled sunflower seeds. I think I will try some raisins next time too. When they see me coming with the "different" bowl they go crazy.

 

[Stubborm M Farm]

Going out to try it..... My chickens will eat anything

 

[saladin]

If you are cooking the oats you are further diluting the nutritional value of the feed.

I know it sounds like y'all are really doing something special for your birds, but you're not. It would be much better if you used unprocessed Whole Oats than what you are doing. You are wasting time, money and doing very little to help your birds.