Do yo feed Your flock KITCHEn scraps...

[chickendaddybill]

we do feed them some scraps. they love mac and cheese and greens but not broccoli and they dont like carrots either.(grated of course) but just about anything else in moderation.

 

[CityslickerHomestead]

Pretty much if I can compost it and it’s edible/safe for chickens, I will offer it to them, but never excessively or as their sole ration of food. They especially like kale trimmings, and baked potatoes.

 

[irish44395]

Curious, what color is your bin, and do you keep it shaded? You are well south of me, yet my bin seemed to get too hot last year, never got either BSF or worms to survive there.

I made mine out of a black 55 gal drum it kept in the shade all day our temp never goes over 100* here they should be good to 105* try to put a freeze block like for lunch boxes in when temps get up there this will help some what
Pete

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Mine is black, too. Same size. Sounds like more shade is the key, thank you.

 

[TLCMidMichigan]

I have a bread store across from where I do my grocery shopping. The bread is day old and inexpensive. Sometimes $.35 a loaf. Some is even cheaper, but often moldy. I'm a little more particular than that.

 

[ShiviBear]

I feed my fluffy butt dinosaurs kitchen scraps, but they can be picky sometimes...for instance, none out of the 58 will touch a carrot, cooked or raw.
They LOVE bread, parsnip, cheese...but I would say their favorite is meat, especially of their brethren kind (), they'll peck bones absolutely clean.
They vocalize in a particular way when they get fed something they really love, their yelling and squawking gets so loud. Watching those fluff butts running around with food in their beak, being chased by other chickens making those crazy sounds (which they never make when they're fed pellets) is a favorite past time of mine.
I do keep snacks like that under 10% of their diet though

 

[Frankiegirl]

Sadly, legally, they can't accept them unless I go thru the whole FL licensing scheme, which will cost me (estimated) $500 - $900 per year, plus inspections, and some additional equipment purchases. I was looking into it this past week. Its about $110 if i want to sell eggs for hatching, chicks, etc. But as soon as its "food" you need a three compartment sink, a site inspection, a water quality inspection, calibrated refrigerators and record keeping, USDA approved cleaners, and licensing costs determined by the inspector, at least$330/yr but easily up to 3x that. If its cooked food, I also need a permanent kitchen (my RV doesn't count), more inspections, more records, personal licensing, and more fees.

Charity is expensive!

That goes into the category of no good deed goes unpunished! Can’t offer fresh eggs, but that Oscar Meyer lunchable “food product” that has been unrecognizably processed...NO PROBLEM!!!

I feed my girls a slurry of warm oatmeal and layer feed along with a scrambled egg in the morning. They love it!! They also get all of my fresh kitchen scraps....their favorite being the entrails of peppers!

 

[Crazy Chicken Helen]

My girls get apple cores, carrot tops, cabbage, hard boiled egg, crushed eggshells, porridge made with warm water in winter, grapes and cherry tomatoes but I slice them in half or they get kicked around like little footballs! we grow chives in the garden they get those once they're overgrown and we grow beetroot so they get the leaves!

 

[Coops Dad]

Ours get everything except citrus. We have a lidded 1-gallon bucket on the countertop, and all our food prep scrap, plate scrapings, fridge clean out and other stuff goes in it. Then it gets dumped into the back pasture where the chickens roam. They come running when they see my wife and the bucket.

 

[Jeanw]

I’ve tried to give scraps but most of the time they don’t want it lol, especially cooked veg. Weirdos!