Special Treats!!

[CickenGirl]

You can always give your flock garden scraps, compost with no eggs or you can grow produce and you can start a worm farm all you need is a contanier and compost and some worm then let mother nature take over hope this is a litte bit helpfull

 

[The Mother Hen]

My chickens love strawberries, especially the green tops.

 

[sireland75]

Spinach, lettuce, corn, pumpkin. I grow my lettuce and spinach right outside the chicken run so I always grab a few leaves before I pop in and visit the girls. They weren't too fussed on tomatoes and carrots, but they devoured some really finely chopped broccoli that I gave them the other day.

 

[Papalote Roos]

In the early spring its meal worms and dandelion weeds. They can't get enough of that. Yes they like watermelon and corn too!

 

[RED girl]

I have a Ninja and I put in oatmeal, granola, sunflower seeds (no shell), sprinkle with cinnamon and grind. I make a large zip lock since my 5 chickens share with my 3 dogs. It is quite funny to see all 8 of them in the yard eating snacks. I also buy watermelon. I am actually freezing the watermelon juice in a cup tonight to give them in the morning. I also make frozen treats for my dogs and make a bowl frozen for my chicks too and they love it. 1 32 oz container of yogurt (plain or vanilla I have used both) 1 tablespoon peanut butter 1 tablespoon honey ( I use local honey from a bee keeper in my area) 1 banana. Again I use my ninja and mix and use ice trays to make for the dogs and a chicken treat cup for the chicks and freeze and hang in the coop the next morning. They finish it off during the day.

 

[boyswillbeboys]

Apples, any leftovers, they love macaroni.

My garden is overgrown, with weeds, there aren't enough hours in the day and we just started it this year, so I regularly fill a largish cardboard box with the weeds as i pull them and toss it in the run for them to pick through, and the run still has grass and its own weeds in it.

I'm debating buying a big bag of black oil sun flower seeds for the winter, but I haven't decided yet, I have a few months before the grass quits.

 

[chickladygirl]

Wild bird feed

 

[chickladygirl]

Wild bird feed

 

[mommy of two]

Mine love my husbands boiled beets!

 

[fatcatx]

Mine love carrot tops and clover. Now I don't weed until it gets big enough for the chickens. I get them them dried mealworms if I'm feeling indulgent. They go nuts for those.

I read on another thread that tomatoes reduce egg production but poster didn't explain how/why. Any truth to this?