oats,chooks, horses...

[Nicos]

Could I ask for some advice please?
I'm starting to give my chooks porridge again- but I've used up all my previous stock of oats. ( a free, huge sack of breakfast oats)

They are very expensive to buy ( if you can find any) over here...

...so apart from 'importing'...have any of you used crushed oats given to horses to make your porridge? Do you think it would mix 50:50 with 'normal' breakfast oats to make porridge????

Which are the cheapest oats peeps use for their chooks???

[MaureenHall]

I just use Asda or Tesco's "Value" brand porridge oats, about 25p a bag I would think that oats for horses would be ok if it's cooked to a gloopy consistency and mixed in with some pellets ...................... unless someone else knows better of course

[Suechooks]

I think proper oats are quite"heating" so you might need to be a bit stingey with them but at the end of the day its the same thing just not processed and we give wheat unprocessed and there must be some oats in the mixed corn? Could you wang it throgh the food processor to make it easier to mix?
I too use Tesco's Value oats.
How's Lily today?

[Bephlam]

Can't you get someone to post you some cheap as chips Tesco porridge oats?

[Bramble-Poultry]

We give straight "steam rolled oats" buy it in a big sack from the feed store. We don;t make it up into porridge but you could its the same stuff just unrefined and processed.

We actually mix it equal parts with wheat, barley, corn and oats and feed it all around everyone - we finish the turkeys on this too. All of these straight feeds are good mixed or on their own at this time of year where no one is laying so don't need the protein content in layers, so it reduces your costs.

[petal]

I mix economy rolled oats with boiled potato skin, carrot peelings etc and they love it!! special sunday treat!