Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[HENthusiastic]

After reading the very interesting thread about a diet to slow down laying, I'm wanting to give my girls more vegetables to fill them up. Is it best to cook the veg and mash it up, or just chuck them whole bits of veg to peck at? They had their first bowl of left over mashed potatoes yesterday and it was lovely. They loved it to bits. Their little faces and beaks got covered, then they shock their heads and spread it all over each other!

[Chooks Aloud]

Depends what you are giving them. Mine love greens/lettuce just hung up for them to peck I also hang raw sweetcorns up (they use it as a swingball). If we have the sweetcorn for dinner, the corns are chucked out to them and they pick every little bit off. Mine eat raw carrots/parsnip, as long as they are chopped up finely. They also eat these cooked, if we have any left over. They love bananas, apples in fact anything they scoff.

 

The only thing mine will not eat is mango. I put some out the other day, they all ran over in delight, just looked at it and walked off. Charming! We also had advacado the other day - I did not give any of this to the chooks, as this apparently is harmful to them.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Karen

[Egluntyne]

Depends. Some like it raw, some cooked.

 

Potato including skins, must always bee cooked as it contains a toxin that is destroyed upon heating.

 

Don't feed them avocado....it is poisonous to birds.

[HENthusiastic]

Thanks guys.

So basically they are greedy porkers and don't care if its raw or cooked (with the exception of potato which must be cooked and avocado is a big no no!)

Mine have actually eaten mango and loved it. So it must just be yours! They are funny.

[mum2boys]

greedy is the right word!

 

grated carrot is well recieved by my 3 as is Kale, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, broccoli (hung up), sweetcorn (whole cob hung up),garlic, along with leftovers which include cooked onion and mushrooms and various other veg...

 

they don't like raw mushrooms and can be fussy about apples - seems to depend what mood they are in

[clootie]

No danger of them not getting their "5 a day"

[nikplus]

Ours go mad for the carrot tops we pluck out of our vegetable patch, and as an added treat they're getting the odd raspberry now, too. Unfortunately we've left them on the bush too long and they're getting past the point where we want to eat them ourselves, but that doesn't seem to bother the chucks. They pluck them out of each others' mouths.