Wheatgrass

[ChickChic00]

I read that feeding chickens wheat grass is good for them and good for humans also. I had a 50lb bag of cleaned wheat and mixed it with my feed, now I think it's grown. I just wanted to know if this is wheatgrass. It looks the same when I search it, but I wanted more opinions just to make sure. Where it's growing is fully open it's gotten sun and rain, and it's continued to grow through the frost. Wanted to know if this is what is growing. Thanks!!

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Looks like wheat grass to me.

I'm raising wheat grass for my chickens inside this winter. They love it!

 

[ChickChic00]

Looks like wheat grass to me.

I'm raising wheat grass for my chickens inside this winter. They love it!

Thank you!!. It's one of our empty chicken pen to hold any extra chickens or sick chickens we have and I just checked the pen not that long ago and I realized something was growing I'm glad it's wheatgrass. I didn't even do anything else to it lol

 

[ChickChic00]

Looks like wheat grass to me.

I'm raising wheat grass for my chickens inside this winter. They love it!

Do you cutsome from the top and give to your chickens? Or do you grow it on something then place it in their pen?

 

[ColoradoPip]

Isn't the smell the absolute best thing ever!?!? Fresh sprouted wheat is really unbelievably excellent smelling!

I did the same, grew in containers, then gave it to my almost 6 year old chickens this winter. They did want much to do with the grass but went to town on the unsprouted seeds and sprouted seed husks. Go figure. They are old and set in their ways though

I've read all about this under the topic growing fodder and it appears that if you let it sprout past a certain time frame it is no longer fodder and is grass. A horticulturist, I am not

 

[ColoradoPip]

Do you cutsome from the top and give to your chickens? Or do you grow it on something then place it in their pen?

I tried several containers:

The seeds grew in any of them, thicker than expected, and I learned a lot:

Settled on black seedling trays in the end, similar to this (with holes for draining):

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Do you cutsome from the top and give to your chickens? Or do you grow it on something then place it in their pen?

I clip from the top, then let it grow back and clip again. I do this 2 or 3 times, then I compost the rest and start a new tray.