Temp/emergency chicken food

[eco-mick]

Looks like I going to run out tomorrow - and the local suppler hasn't got any sacks in (thanks to panic buying last week or so) - I got enough feed for 1/2 of them until I hit the town in the late afternoon or evening, but its needs bulking out with something... would porriage and boiled rice be okay for them? (if so, how much you lot think is okay?)

Mick

[eco-mick]

For the record.. I thought I had another bag in the corner of the caravan... but nope.. must have used it lol

[thesunflowergal]

I was feeding my girls porriage when the weather was bad, plus all other table scraps, corn and layers pellets and they where fine. I made a small mug of oats, mixed with two of water. I have five hens. HTH.

[Millymollymandy]

Mine adore cooked rice which they have as a treat so I should think yours will think it is Xmas already! Chopped up spaghetti goes down a real treat too.

[bonniethomas06]

Hi there,

This happens to us occasionally, especially now when ours are eating like donkeys. They are fine with kitchen scraps - cooked veggies, old crusts, potato peelings, rice, pasta, porrige oats, ours even eat prawn crackers at a push! Anything except meat and eggs (of course), avocado, citrus/allium family, sugary stuff/salty stuff (might be others but you catch my drift). They also LOVE popcorn and to watch them eat gone off milk or natural yog is hilarious!

We have had to feed ours on this stuff for a week before - they really don't mind it and if anything I think they prefer the variety. As my gran tells me...during the war this was all they would have eaten. You might notice a drop in egg production though, but we don't mind that.

[Ellendra]

They like squash and root vegetables.

[Milims]

My lot will pretty much eat anything that isn't red!