What Do I Do With Wheat?

I throw them all out as scratch. Whole, not ground.

 

Lucky find............... if I were you I 'd mix it in with a few bags of layer feed and make a nice higher protien layer ration with the benny's of BOSS.

 

Quote:Yeah but if you do it like that won't the chickens just dig out the treats and cause a lot of food waste?

 

Sometimes I suppose, I feed my birds custom mixes all the time regularly and haven't found it to the case. So maybe if your birds are finicky mix up a small batch and check it out, if it doesn't work I think the scratch Idea Katy suggested is a good one. I guess I don't coddle my birds like most BYCer's they eat what I give them when I give it, so normaly there isn't an issue.

 

Soaking whole wheat overnight in water swells the kernels and seems to make them "yummier" from the chicken's point of view. Softer, easier to digest and perhaps a little more nutritious because of changes in the grain as it gets ready to germinate. I drain mine though a mesh sieve and serve it as a scratch grain,

Best - exop

 

Can you brew some wheat beer first - then give 'em the spent grains???

 

I just throw it on the ground and they pick at it, keeps them entertained.

 

I just throw it on the ground and they go nuts over it. My dh is a crop farmer so he saved some out for me when he cut wheat this summer.

 

Quote:That's where I get mine too. We farm and I always save some back when we're harvesting. After corn harvest I go out and gather up ears that the combine missed...they love pecking the corn off the ears.