Old enough for whole sunflower seeds?

[2DogsFarm]

I feed my horses black oil sunflower seeds for the Omega-3s - both have fantastically shiny, dappled coats (and it sure isn't due to my grooming skills

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I'd like to add the BOSS to the cracked oats I've been giving to my 13wk old pullets as occasional scratch. They seem fine with eating the oats, so I was wondering if they can handle the sunflower seeds - hulls & all.
I give them chick grit too.
So:
BOSS ok for the girls?

 

[2dancingrats]

Hi. Don't have an answer for you. Do want to say I offered BOSS to my 4 month old chickens yesterday after reading that they would consider it a wonderful treat. They were hungry, so I though I would give them a few to enjoy while I made their dinner.
I put the seeds down expecting the great glee response I usually get when I give a treat. The girls ran right over, then, jumped back and let out a collective sound of great disappointment! I don't know if they have to learn to like it or if they are too young. I can tell you they have no interest in BOSS whatsoever.

 

[espressola]

I've been feeding it to my kids (15-16 weeks) for a while now... my BOSS is about 1/2 the size of my pinkie nail and I feed it as scratch to get them to churn up their deep litter bedding. Mine seemed to like it just fine. I also make sure they have grit available.
Patty N. ;-)

 

[RendonRoo]

Mine did the same at first. I usually give a handful of boss and a handful of scratch. They eat the scratch first but eventually get to the BOSS. It takes them a while to figure out it's food. I have the same problem with most thing i introduce new to them. Good Luck

 

[Junkmanme]

I once had a couple of parrots in a pawnshop I owned.

I fed them a lot of sunflower seeds.

They were super-hyperactive! Drove this poor country-boy NUTS!

I got rid of the screamin' parrots!

Later, a fella that raised birds told me that the sunflower seeds were what made 'em "hyper-active".

I dunno. But, I do know that if'n I give my chickens some sunflower seeds...that ole rooster, Oro Blanco de Gallo, would start crowin' DOUBLE-TIME !

The neighbors probly don't like him anyway RIGHT NOW!

ha-ha,

-Junkmanme-