4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Mrs AVP]

What sort of s"Ooops, word censored!"s and fruit are safe to feed hens?

[Egluntyne]

Pasta , rice, all potato must be cooked first, including skins, so that toxins are rendered harmless, no avocado. I would never give citrus fruit. Meat and fish are frowned upon nowadays. Bread, either torn up into tiny chunks or soaked in water is a favourite too.

[C&T]

Mine turn their noses up at scaps...

 

I would say they have ideas above their station - but thinking about it maybe I am the deluded one thinking that I own the hens rather than the other way around...

 

They do like defrosted frozen peas and sweetcorn though, and cabbage and broccolli - preferably raw.

 

So any kitchen s"Ooops, word censored!"s (like peelings etc) normally end up in the compost bin

 

Don't tell OH though - he thinks they are very useful at eating up the s"Ooops, word censored!"s...!

[esta]

My chickens love rice, cheese, carrots apples and lettuces hung up, pasta, grapes and much more. When people say its a bad idea about chickens eating meat, well mine have eaten mice frogs worms etc soooo ???? I don't know

 

:D:D:D

 

Esta x

[Kirstine]

I think it's more second-hand meat (i.e. human leftovers) that's frowned upon after BSE - although some people don't like their chickens eating earthworms because they might carry parasites. I don't see how you can keep chickens entirely veggie, though, as they will eat insects, worms, frogs etc. if they find them! I've never managed to interest mine in slugs or caterpillars, unfortunately.

 

Ours get any kind of leftover starch (pasta, rice, potato, couscous, bread) and peas. They don't seem to like other veg unless it is still growing in the ground!

[Patricia W]

one of mine loves worms, but the other two don't seem interested. All of them love woodlice though!

 

Tricia

[quickcluck]

Does any bodies chooks eat bananas?

[Tulip]

Does any bodies chooks eat bananas?

 

EAT BANANAS? Ours are utterly obsessed by them. They can spot a banana being peeled from the other end of the garden and tend to launch themselves at the patio doors for it!

[Surrey Hen]

I've never tried mine with bananas so I don't know if they would like them.

 

My ideas about keeping my girls vegetarian went out of the window when they discovered that they could dig up their own worms - they love them so I now buy them live mealworms from Wiggly Wigglers too. They are their absolute favourite treat - yuk

They used to really like sweetcorn but have ignored that today in favour of pasta. I don't give them s"Ooops, word censored!"s but I do cook extra of certain things like pasta and rice specially to give to them.

 

 

 

[Gamebird]

Does any bodies chooks eat bananas?

Yes, mine do, they love them.

[Cooks]

one of mine hates bananas but the others love them, Dory spits them out if she takes a bit by accident.. LOL

[quickcluck]

Right, that's tomorrows treat sorted

 

I get worms from wigglers too. But I hate storing them, and worry about how long they will last for

[alexgirl73]

Mine will eat potato peelings (cooked of course), pasta, rice, sweetcorn, cabbage, grapes, lettuce, they got celery the other day for the first time and ADORED it. They also like slugs, bugs and worms and any crawly lol. They get anything that's left on the kids plates and haven't turned their beaks up yet, their fave is mashed potato with beans

[Mrs AVP]

Thanks everyone my girls are in for a treat this week!!

[Dolly]

S"Ooops, word censored!"s? You must be joking! We gave them a load of vegetable peelings recently and they turned their noses up! If it's not freshly peeled banana, fresh corn on the cob, or chopped apples etc. they're not interested - I think we may have spoiled them a bit as OH said while he stood in the kitchen chopping up the contents of our fresh fruit bowl .....

[Chickvic]

Mine won't eat veg unless it's been cooked it's amazing how many times there is always some left for the girls and broccoli stalks, I have to buy broccoli with the biggest stalk

[quickcluck]

Dolly are they laying up? Sometimes their tastebuds change as they mature or stay laying.... so keep trying

[..lay a little egg for me]

Ours eat all kinds of things but their favourite is anything starchy so rice, pasta, cooked potato or breadcrumbs. After they have polished that off they go for red things like tomatoes or strawberry hulls and then the sweetcorn and finally green stuff or apple cores. They refuse carrot peelings though. I suspect their tastes depend on what they are getting naturally. As ours free range all day every day, I think they get enough green stuff and so are much keener on starch and other coloured things.

[Dolly]

QuickCluck - they've only been laying for a few weeks so as you say, I'll keep trying different things with them - I never thought of their taste buds changing - thanks!

[4Clucks-minusOne]

Chickvic broccoli is 49p at Aldi as well as celery and fine green beans(part of the special 6 they do). I buy one for us and then one for the girls. Last month they had red grapes for 69p.

[Chickvic]

*zooms off to Aldi*

[Cooks]

I wish Aldi wasn't the complete other side of town to me, it's not cheap veg when you drive all that way. LOL