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Hi Everyone,

 

I'm waiting for my hanging feeder to arrive but made a broccoli and cauli cheese for tea tonight so thought I would give the girls a little raw broccoli and chopped leaves in the run tomorrow before I go to work.

 

I have chopped the leaves into small pieces and removed most of the stalks, is it ok to pop it straight into the run rather than a hanging feeder? Just obviously don't want to run a risk of anything getting stuck in their gizzards.

 

Thanks in advance...

 

Sarah

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yes I used to chop up the broccoli heads. I threw away the stalk :oops:

 

But now when i hang the broccoli up they love to peck the florets and pick off the leaves - i hang it up completely whole and sometimes they "hollow out" the stalk leaving it like a tube! :D

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I give them whole heads of broccoli. They love it. :lol:

 

Tomorrow will be a broccoli first for the girls, so far for other treats they have had marmite on toast, tinned corn, sunflower hearts but the MEGA FAVOURITE is live mealworms - they go mad for them! :D:shock:

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you wait, any sign of an open door and your chooks will be in! :lol:

 

My lot have have several daily attempts to break the fortress which is the kitchen, dog will go out back door leaving it open and then its "all systems go" and they are stood behind me whilst im peeling spuds at the sink.

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I tried mine with broccoli yesterday. I have a cut down shrub in the run, and I wedged the broccoli heads in that to make a broccoli tree.

 

DH went in the run a few hours later to measure up for a ramp to go over the ladder, and said there were broccoli heads kicked all over the run floor. Seems they take after their veggie-hating dad rather than their veggie loving mum!

 

They did, however, love cooked basmati rice and cooked pasta.

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I put the whole stalk in the run when I've chopped off the florets for the kids dinner.

 

3 of my chooks only eat any green bits left on it

But my Pepperpot eats the stalk, the others won't touch it. She will eat a whole woody stalk in a day and I don't cut it up at all. Don't know how she manages it but she must get hours of amusement from pecking away at it.

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My girls love broccoli, they eat the lot! However I note that many of you give your chooks grapes and other fruit - mine turn their noses up at fruit which I can't understand.

 

The only fruit I have tried so far is raisins, they thought they were ok but not as good as mealworms lol

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Mine love spinach and chard, brocolli, caulisflower, not keen on cabbage and sprouts (despite my best efforts). They would ram raid the kitchen for sweetcorn, grapes, porrige and natural yoghurt. They also love tuna and rice (currenlty the main food for the poorly dog- they will steal from her bowl until she barks for help!!)

 

They do eat so much more when they lay - mine much prefer fresh to pellets and have to be contained in their run to make sure they eat at least some each day.

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