What treat did your chickies get today?

[Stumpy]

I collected many bugs from my tomato plants today and was shocked when the chickens wouldn't touch them! They did eat the watermelon seeds, tomatoes and grass I gave them.

 

[Pullet Surprise]

A few meal worms, a tomato that they played with before consuming it entirely, unwanted grass weeded out of the flower bed, and an unlucky cricket and what ever treasures they had hidden from yesterday

 

[jlquick30]

Mine had some frozen watermelon, which they LOVED, and some corn on the cob - also a huge hit! They were some happy girls tonight.

 

[Aunt LoLo]

My girls...love leftovers. haha. Today, they got rice, corn, cantaloupe and romaine lettuce. We got a suet-type feeder from our local farm store, and we stuff that full of leafy greens. It keeps the goodies out of the dirt, and they're so funny ripping it to bits!

 

[Butthead1969]

Blueberries.... they loved them...

 

[humphrey farms]

Today I went to the local grocery and got 15 ears of shucked corn for $3... so I gave them 4 and chopped up three carrots.

 

[humphrey farms]

I went to the local grocery store and paid $3 for 15 ears of shucked corn. I gave them 4 and chopped up three carrots as well. Plus they get greens every day.

 

[msladyhawke]

bread crusts, a hamburger roll and some banana today

 

[Stumpy]

More watermelon with seeds today.

 

[Grace11]

A friend came and helped me get my compost bins put together (just pallets wired together). He shoveled the part of the compost pile that needed rearranging into the new bin area. I saw HUGE white grubs in the newly exposed dirt and grabbed a can and started collecting them. Got something like 50 of them. Had a little garden party in the chicken pen. Actually it was more like complete pandimonium which erupted as soon as they saw what was in the can and the grubs started getting passed out one at a time. Everybody got at least 2, they were so big that they all had to take a few seconds to run away to make sure no one got "their" bug and to get the monsters down their gullets. Those grubs were as big around as big tomato hornworms and at least an inch long.

I dont quite get why a hen with a juicy morsel runs around clucking in a certain way which makes all the others certain to chase her, if she'd just be quiet and eat it no one else would even know she got something....

I looked them up, they were June Bug grubs.