"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>> >
>>> With your bits of different brown rice I'd feed it all to the birds
>>> and buy a package of new... brown rice has a short shelf life anyway,
>>> unless refrigerated/frozen it goes rancid in less than a year... most
>>> folks who eat brown rice don't notice the rancidity; TIAD.
>>
>> Good info, Sheldon. I've got some brown rice about that old. I'll feed
>> the
>> birds with it.
>
> No DON'T FEED THE BIRDS RICE. You will KILL them. Rice expands in their
> stomachs and they DIE.
>
> Feed them birdseed.


Actually they don't have stomachs they have crops but rice does expand and
it does kill them.