Cooking for your Chickens..

[heatheramack]

This is so cute, we always thought we had the most spoiled chickens who ever lived. I'm delighted that ours are in such good company!
When I'm making grits or rice or pasta, I make extra for them, especially warm grits if it's cold out. In the summer they get a quarter of a watermelon from the fridge every a day and in the winter I put out a cabbage every day. We live in the city, and only have 3 hens, but they can be pretty loud early in the morning. (Doing their "sun salutations" we call it.) So one of us throws out a few handfuls of either millet or sesame seeds (unhulled are super cheap) and that distracts them long enough to give our neighbors some reprieve. Any time I make a recipe that calls for just egg whites or yolks, I cook up the remaining egg parts for them.
Turkey carcass, huh? I'll have to keep that in mind.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Now I don't feel so bad, I asked DH to get me up a little earlier yesterday so that I could make some pancakes for the chickens. I usually take some bread to them in the morning when I feed and water, but I was out of bread. DH thinks I have gone crazy.

 

[ranchhand]

Don't tell anybody, but I do it all the time.

Just made a huge pot of grits, which is now mixed with carrot peelings, fish filets that were getting old in the freezer, hardboiled eggs chopped in the processor (shell and all), etc.
I always cook extra when making pasta, oatmeal, grits, just whatever is on hand.

 

[Chickenaddict]

Yep I cook for mine all the time but SHHHH don't tell

Rice with veggies is a favorite, spaghetti noodles, scrambled eggs, oatmeal, tater tot hotdish ect ect ect... In the summer they have their own veggie garden full of tomatoes, beans, lettuce, squashes, and peas. They also get fresh watermelon at least once a week especially when its really hot outside. They eat better then I do.

 

[mdbokc]

Yep, mine get a cooked meal most days of the week except during summer months or on warm days. Fortunately, the recipe list is inexpensive, short and easy.

 

[farmerlor]

I make the girlies their own flock blocks. When it's cold I'll whip them up some oatmeal with eggs or rice with eggs and serve it to them while it's still warm. They purr like kittens. When I get just overrun with eggs I scramble up a big bunch for them or hard boil some and throw them out to the girls.

 

[Maine-ly]

It's been fun trying to figure out what our girls like to snack on. I find that on a cold Winter morning in Maine that there is nothing like a bowl of warm oatmeal. The go crazy for it. We also give them scraps from our compost, here is what I have found they can't live without. Scrambled eggs, egg shell, rice, watermelon, strawberry tops, french toast, warm stew, noodles.

 

[npecom]

Just getting started in this but I made up a big batch of cornbread for mine, adding eggshells, chopped comfrey leaves and some protein supplement like they sell for body builders. I'm always looking for ways to get more protein in them since they are small breed laying big eggs daily and they are skinny! They ate the cornbread better than the 18% all-way pellets which they seem to "turn their beaks up at". They eat the pellets but don't seem to like them much.