Sorghum, corn and sunflower

ladyrsanti

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Hey all, I regularly plant sorghum, dent corns and sunflowers for my own use. Brooms, meal and snacks :O) This is the first year I have chickens in the mix too though. Can I use these for my chickens and how would they be prepared? Ground? Whole? As treats? Normally, I don't have a use for the sorghum seeds. I just save some for planting next year and use the tops for the brooms but I always get so much that I'd hate to waste it if the chickens could eat it. Also, we just recently moved to this farm and I've noticed a lot of heavily seeded "grass" around, likely rogue grains from hays and straw bales or old fields. I haven't identified them but would these seed heads be edible to them as well somehow, when matured?
 
Yes, the chickens would probably enjoy them all. No need to thresh or grind the grain for them. Throw the seed heads out as-is to them and let them do the work.
 

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