…… Can Chickens Eat Commercial Cereals?

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.
 

greysage

On The Level
According to other sources on the internet, yes.


Myself, I have no chickens, but have soup and breast cooked up in the fridge.
 

West

Senior
Think it's more prudent to know what they can't eat....



On our little homestead it seems a plate or piece or Styrofoam blows out of our incinerator or burn piles and the chickens will eat it if we don't catch it quickly. Not sure if we have lost any birds from them eating it, but I'm sure it's not good for them, and try to stay vigilant in keeping all things Styrofoam in the incinerator.
 

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
You can make them a wet mash of their regular feed mixed with some of the cereal. I would soak the frosted flakes for a while, drain and squeeze and if most of the frosty stuff is gone, mix into the mash. Stand back, cause my girls would try to knock the bowl out of my hand. Square heavy bowls, no round bottoms cause they'll knock it over and spill it.

I think the funniest thing I've ever seen is a flock chasing each other with a big tomato hornworm in play as the ball. It becomes a sack of skin flopping in their beaks until somebody manages to hork it down.
 

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
You can make them a wet mash of their regular feed mixed with some of the cereal. I would soak the frosted flakes for a while, drain and squeeze and if most of the frosty stuff is gone, mix into the mash. Stand back, cause my girls would try to knock the bowl out of my hand. Square heavy bowls, no round bottoms cause they'll knock it over and spill it.

I think the funniest thing I've ever seen is a flock chasing each other with a big tomato hornworm in play as the ball. It becomes a sack of skin flopping in their beaks until somebody manages to hork it down.
Omg :lkick:
 
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