Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I have several boxes of commercial breakfast cereals that neither my wife nor I choose to eat (me because I am trying to loose a few pounds on the keto diet, and my wife just does not like most breakfast cereals. She prefers hot grits or oatmeal).
Anyway, these are all fresh, unopened boxes. So, would it be OK to feed my hens:
2 boxes of Post Grape Nuts cereal
1 box of generic Bran Flakes
1 box of Honey Bunches of Oats with Almond slivers in it
Normally the hens just eat commercial chicken feed, sunflower seeds, old milk if we don’t end up drinking it all ourselves, left over cabbage or broccoli leaves from my garden, watermelon that I trade eggs for, in order to get them some relief in the hot summer, left over Halloween pumpkin, and plenty of greens and weeds from my lawn or garden.
I have never tried giving the chickens commercial cereal before, but I occasionally have some given to me, and I am having trouble finding a new home for the healthier cereals I am given..
i also have other boxed cereal given to me from time to time, like Frosted Flakes or Froot Loops, but some of the neighborhood kids are quick to “rehome” that sweet stuff. None of my neighbors want the grape nuts or bran flakes.
And I absolutely hate to waste perfectly good food.
So I thought I might feed the unwanted cereal to the chickens.
Is that a good idea?
Thank you in advance.
Anyway, these are all fresh, unopened boxes. So, would it be OK to feed my hens:
2 boxes of Post Grape Nuts cereal
1 box of generic Bran Flakes
1 box of Honey Bunches of Oats with Almond slivers in it
Normally the hens just eat commercial chicken feed, sunflower seeds, old milk if we don’t end up drinking it all ourselves, left over cabbage or broccoli leaves from my garden, watermelon that I trade eggs for, in order to get them some relief in the hot summer, left over Halloween pumpkin, and plenty of greens and weeds from my lawn or garden.
I have never tried giving the chickens commercial cereal before, but I occasionally have some given to me, and I am having trouble finding a new home for the healthier cereals I am given..
i also have other boxed cereal given to me from time to time, like Frosted Flakes or Froot Loops, but some of the neighborhood kids are quick to “rehome” that sweet stuff. None of my neighbors want the grape nuts or bran flakes.
And I absolutely hate to waste perfectly good food.
So I thought I might feed the unwanted cereal to the chickens.
Is that a good idea?
Thank you in advance.