Raw green beans

[4 luv of eggs]

I have some raw green beans that are fine but have gotten too rubbery for my liking. Can I feed them raw or should I give them a quick steam and cool?

 

[Sparks]

Mine never would eat them raw. Might try cooking them.

 

[rancher hicks]

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Mine either. Of the one vegetable my birds left alone in the garden, it was the beans. Which of course weren't my favorite either. We both like the tomatoes.

 

[Akane]

Green or pole beans are one of the beans safe to eat raw. Whether they eat them that way or not I don't know. Mine didn't bother them on the vines but they had plenty of other areas to roam and didn't head to the garden much. The ones I had leftover or picked too late I fed to the rabbits and sugar gliders.

 

[johny]

The big nasty ones from the garden, that get oversized because you miss them, or can't eat them all fast enough, is what I fed my birds.
But only after I steamed them in the microwave for 3 minutes to soften them. Then chop into chicken sized bites.
They loved them

 

[beachchickie]

mine only eat em cooked slightly

 

[pdxblossom]

I gave some raw ones to my girls last week and they ate them . . . but only after they ate all the tomatoes, grapes and scrambled eggs.