do chooks and ducks like broccolli?

[AHappychick]

I only like the floretts so I have a bunch of uncooked stems, can I just chop it up and feed it to them? or should I just compost it?

 

[ChanceRider]

My chickens and ducks love it! Most of the time mine get theirs cooked for a warm treat when it's cold outside. I'm sure they'd like it raw as well.

 

[Wifezilla]

My ducks don't like broccoli, but they like cabbage. Go figure.

 

[AHappychick]

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Maybe I should steam it or boil it?

 

[PokingMyPancreas]

Steam or boil it. Then mix it up with something else. Mine will only eat broccoli if it's hidden with other food.

 

[AHappychick]

well its all gone, they must have likesd it

I boiled it until soft and threw it in with the left over apple pieces my ds had dropped to the floor.

 

[lovemychix]

If you could have seen my brocolli last year and what they did to it!! Yes....they love it!!

 

[Kim_NC]

Our chickens eat brocolli quite readily. We raise a market garden and sell at local farmers markets Spring - Fall. So, we have a lot of brocolli plants at times. When the plants are finished producing heads and florets, I pull them whole and toss into the chicken pasture areas. They eat leaves, stalks, and the root ball.

Interesting about how they eat the stalks on whole plants - they start at the tip and peck, peck, peck their way down to the base. They do leave the very bottom, about 4 inches above the root ball.