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Beans! My chickens love beans! They also got some left-over salad and half of a cucumber. Happy chickens!!

I live in Southern California and the weather is been very warm and dry. One of my six hens started molting this week…feathers everywhere! But she seems fine and is eating up a storm (and still producing eggs) so I'm not too worried. I think it's funny that she's on a different cycle than her...

We try to get a neighbor to come visit the chickens at least once a day to check food/water and give them some love. As a bonus, they get all the eggs! In a worse case scenario, we fill the water feeder and food bin to max capacity which will allow us to go away for 2-3 days (but this is not...

Tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden (the cold nights here have made the veggies a little bitter for humans but still loved by chickens).

Half a water melon, a peach (no pit) and some saltine crackers! But their favorite things is when I "help" dig up worms in the garden.

Hummas and veggies...left over from our bbq last night!

figs, bell peppers and and shrimp shells (which they were not as crazy about as I had expected)

I give mine all our veggie scraps. They love it and they still eat their regular food too. Now that some of the plants in my garden have seen better days, I let them forage for worms. Some times I help by shoveling up the deep dirt to get to the good stuff...seriously spoiled chickens!

Thanks for all the info! I have two cochins that are almost six months old...no eggs yet!

Adding a nipple water feeder to the coop was the single greatest thing we did for our chickens (and for us). The regular water feeder would get really gross throughout the day and I worried they'd get sick (Alfredo liked to sit on top of the feeder and poop into the water tray...nasty!). I was...

My hens love, love, love horn worms. We've only had a few this year, but I picked them off the plants and gave them to the chickens as a treat. I checked online first and it sounds like they are safe (if I read it on the internet, it must be true, right? ha ha). And good for you saving the...

My chickens seem to eat everything, except onions! I save all my vegetable scraps for the chickens...the really love the seeds from inside peppers.

Thanks for this post. Someone just asked me if my chickens were vegetarian and I asked if they considered insects meat?!? I don't feed my chickens meat, but they do eat a lot of bugs (which they love). I even help them dig down into the soil to find the big, juicy worms! I can't imagine how...

Great article! Thank you!! I've decided to only allow supervised free ranging because there are too many predators in our area (from unleashed dogs, to huge hawks and starving coyotes). So I've set up an office (old patio chair/table/umbrella) down by my chickens so I can be productive and my...

Hi there! This site was hugely helpful to me when we first adopted our chickens. I knew pretty much nothing and suddenly had a flock of 6 that need my love and attention!! My best advice is to read up on keeping your chickens safe...there are many predators out there that are looking for a...

Hi Sara - I'm in San Diego too!! We got chickens over Memorial Day weekend, so I'm fairly new at this too. It is super fun and very rewarding. We are in No. County and have had great luck with supplies at Hawthorne Country Store in Escondido. And our friends even got their baby chicks from...

I was happy to see this question posted because I had to Google "scratch" to find out what it was and if my chickens needed it!!! My chickens came to me with a diet that included scratch in the feed. The scratch was also used as a training tool. I've replaced the scratch with dried meal...

Hi - I'm fairly new to chickens too. I inherited a flock of 6 over Memorial Day weekend. I was terrified that I would accidentally kill them or it would be too much work in addition to my family, other pets and my job! But they are much easier to care for than I originally thought, so don't...

I pulled some swiss chard leaves from the garden and they chased me around waiting to eat it out of my hand. That is by far their favorite treat from the garden. I also keep a jar of mealworms that I shake to get them to come into their coop/run...it works every time!

I inherited my flock and only have a vague idea as to how old they might be...maybe 4-6 months? One has been laying since the day we got her and I think another one just started this week. But as for the remaining four...only time will tell!!