I have tossed some of their layer feed down and they eat it all. Never any waste! I have wild bird seed I give them now and then, cucumbers, blueberries {any berry}, etc. They nearly attack me for blueberries. Lol.. Oh, they love dandilion green too! I pull all I can now and then.
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I never believe everything I read, completely. A snack to me is like, a tray of veggies I give them almost daily. Our chickens love cucumbers and deep green leaf veggies.
You can google it. But I can tell you, I give my goats some cracked corn in the winter and it helps keep them warm. It's a heat food! IMO even a piece of it will cause heat. That one of the purposes of it. Here in the summer I don't feed anything to any of our animals with corn in it.
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This is exactly what we do. I sometimes throw some out in the pen, and they can scratch and be chickens. We do have them in a grassy area. We have a bigger grass area hooked to this pen, that we'll be opening up when it grows deeper. They'll love that. It'll be the "chicken jungle". Lol.. We...
Corn is a heating type food anyway. As mentioned, why even give scratch? For a snack I give veggies! So far our list of likes is, tomatoes, cucumbers,leaf lettuce or iceburg, diced red peppers, brussel spouts steamed,spinach. All are raw unless steamed/cooked is mentioned. I cut things in small...