chickens a balanced mix of both raw and roasted peanuts<\/a> in tiny portions.<\/p>\nI usually stick to roasted nuts alone though for safety and convenience. I buy roasted, no-salt peanuts in bulk from the local feed store. Then mix a few chopped nuts into the flock\u2019s scratch grains or hide whole peanuts around their run for fun, enriching forage time!<\/p>\n
So while the jury\u2019s still out on perfect peanut prep for poultry, aim for a happy medium. And remain ever diligent about strict moderation of all high-fat treats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well folks, I learned the answer to this question the hard way. It all started one sunny spring afternoon when I was making myself a creamy peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwich for lunch. My loyal flock of Buff Orpington hens were milling around my feet clucking and begging for scraps as they always do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}