Sooo much pooping

[rufusrooster]

i know there has been plenty of threads on this subject previous but i just can't be bothered to trawl through pages and pages of threads ..

 

which veggies can they eat raw if any ? i know they can't have raw potato but i'm sure ive read that people give them raw cabbage ?

 

potato - cooked only

cabbage - ?

carrot - ?

broccoli - ?

spinach - ?

colliflower - ?

swede/turnip - ?

parsnip - ?

[Space Chick]

Of what you have listed, mine have all of them raw (apart from the obvious potatoes).

 

Usually if I give my girls veggies, they love to have a few cabbage halves tied up to peck on, same goes for spinach leaves.

 

For the other veggies, I usually do my "mega mix" for them. When I peel and prepare veg, (carrots, parsnips, swede, broccoli etc) I put the peelings/stalks in a food processor and blitz them with some bokashi bran. My girls go crazy for this.

 

In fact if they hear the food processor going, they line up at the back door and bok enthusiastically. Of course, if I am making something else they get very disappointed

[Redwing]

Cabbage, spinich, cauliflower, brocolli are all ok raw

 

Carrots are ok raw but mine wont touch them unless they are cooked

 

Parsnips I am not sure about

[Space Chick]

Forgot to mention, that if you give them Red Cabbage it turns their poo a greeny blue colour

[rufusrooster]

thanks for that info, ive been boiling all the veg peelings up every week and mixing them with the left over vegies allready cooked, dont have to do that now, iwill try them with raw cabbage 1st

[PurpleTree]

I give my girls whole raw carrots, and I've hung up a whole brocolli for them in the past.

[kerryegg]

Yes I had a shock the first time I gave them red cabbage. Mine like most veg but prefer it micr. waved if its carrots or tough bits.

[Saronne]

I stock up on cabbages when they're on offer at the market or supermarket. In this cold weather, they store well in the shed. My girls absolutely love them.

 

If I time things right, I also get the discarded cabbage/cauliflower leaves when the market traders chuck them out for the bin men to collect...It's a little embarrassing when people give you pity-ing looks, though.

 

 

Saronne x

[Space Chick]

If I time things right, I also get the discarded cabbage/cauliflower leaves when the market traders chuck them out for the bin men to collect...It's a little embarrassing when people give you pity-ing looks, though.

 

 

Saronne x

 

I also ask my veg people for cabbages etc they they are planning to chuck out. They are usually pretty accommodating

[Egluntyne]

Don't give them avocado either. It is poisonous to birds.

 

Mine will only eat carrots and other hard root veg if they are cooked.

[suebee]

I get those bags of 'fresh greens' from a well known supermarket

These get hung up in a net bag (so they last longer than 10 minutes!). I've tried hanging whole carrot, but they're not impressed, even when I've cut into it to get them started. If I grate it and add it to their mash though, they go mad for it. They also love chopped tomato in their mash, those baby sweetcorn, grated again, half an apple, either hung in the net with the cabbage, or preferably grated! Fussy ladies! Even broccoli gets grated and added to their mash, as they're not keen on it whole. (Smells laaaavly when it's added to warm mash. Sometimes, I could have a go at their mash meself!) I might add, that they don't get all these veggies in one mash... I alternate.

[Space Chick]

Sometimes, I could have a go at their mash meself!) I might add, that they don't get all these veggies in one mash... I alternate.

 

First mealworms, and now mash.

 

Move away from the chicken food Suebee

[suebee]

Awwww. Don't make me. It's laaaaaaaaavly!

[Chickvic]

Mine like their veg cooked, the only thing they eat raw (usually!) is the broccoli stalk.