Remaining guinea pig food ok for chicken treat?

[Britcheflee]

Kids have two guinea pigs - for information I signed up on a guinea pig site and was promptly chastised for not feeding them the right food - I guess the fancy stuff I bought from Wal Mart with all the corn, coloured bits of stuff etc is 'unsuitable' for guinea pigs - they might choke on it, it is too fatty etc etc.......(actually I posted a picture of the new cage I made them and it was deleted because it showed this dreadful food)....

Anyway, went and got the right food and so now have this bag of stuff left over.
I am assuming that the less fastidious chickens would happily eat this up? Cant imagine it has anything in it that would be bad for them or do you feel otherwise?
I know chicken folk can get a bit 'crazy' about their birds but I think some guinea pig folk have you beat


Lee

 

[cassie]

Chickens can eat just about anything, so the guinea pig feed certainly won't hurt them. I am a little confused about the "right feed" for guinea pigs. I have never heard of a guinea pig choking on anything. I used to feed mine rabbit pellets pus some occasional greens. When I worked at the pet shop we fed them rabbit pellets there too. The guinea pigs did just fine on the rabbit feed.

 

[Britcheflee]

I am sure you are right...however, I guess you get the occasional fanatic about these things - oh well.

Lee

 

[MandyH]

Well let me tell you that when we got rid of our 2 guinea pigs. I had about 5 pounds of that "vile" food also and the chickens had NOOOOOOO complaints when I tossed it across the fence LOL. Nobody perished either. Give it to them and then get ready for them to be on the lookout for more.

 

[Danigirl3]

Geez what site did you go to. lol I bookmarked a couple of them when my kids got their guinea pigs but don't remember reading anything like that on any of them. I switched to the plains gp pellets a little while ago because of the cost factor and I thought I was being cheap by not still buying the "loaded" food. I think it would be fine for the chickens but I think it would be just as fine for the gp. Have you ever been bit by one? I don't think they would have a problem corn or other dried vegtables. Just my own unprofessional opinion.

 

[txchickie]

Go ahead and feed it to your birds! My chickens love the "fines" left in the bottom of the bag of rabbit pellets that my 2 bunnies don't eat.