I have observed again and again and again that if one hen tastes something and starts to eat it, every other formerly reluctant hen follows suit and they all push each other away from what a moment ago was scary and now is delicious.
I just gave my 15 a big lunch of carrots, green tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, yams, romaine lettuce, cabbage and cous-cous. They are goats with wings.
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It sounds so spooky that I sometimes refrain from doing it, BUT....
A steaming plate of scrambled eggs in the winter is devoured in record time. I have heard many times that they love Yogurt, but -- who ever has leftover yogurt?
At this time of the year I wonder if anyone out there has...
I feed my girls anything they will eat and that I think is healthy. They love stale bread, but as there is not much nutritional value there I limit it. Someone suggested a head of cabbage in the winter when they can find no greens; I tried that and the 15 of them can make a head vanish in 25...
For goodness' sake. Free range chickens pull worms from the ground and eat any kind of bug they come across. How on earth (other than never letting them outside) would you ever make a vegetarian out of a chicken?
My 15 girls live behind my country store. We sell sharp cheddar cheese by the block, but sometimes it gets a bit moldy or dry. And so... The hens love it and fight for it, any doubt about pecking order vanishes as they sort out who gets what. They love their cheese, but then again they love...