Do yo feed Your flock KITCHEn scraps...

[Ebony Rose]

Will they actually eat banana peels??

I've had mixed reviews on bananas and their peels. Some of my flocks have absolutely gone ape over them (pun intended), and others give me the stink eye (a look of disdain) for the offer. Try them in the various stages of ripeness to get a true idea of their interest as texture matters to some birds; anything from ripe (yellow) to black (overripe) to find out their preference.

 

[featherhead007]

What age is it okay to start feeding scraps?

A: Last week!

 

[featherhead007]

Nope. Not allowed to feed them kitchen scraps in the UK... but mine get plenty of garden scraps instead, and the kitchen scraps go to the compost pile [out of little beaks reach ]
They love sweetcorn bits straight from the ground, along with strawberries, grapes and all the lovely greens we don't eat
They go nuts with excitement if I so much as touch the garden fork in their run
They love sratching & digging up worms with me! Fabulous little gardeners

Yep, you gotta watch out. I’m sure there’s a “Chick Bobby” right around the corner!

 

[Anime2lover]

It's amazing how tastes differ between flocks. Like mine also don't eat cabbage and lettuce, which are pretty popular scraps/treats a lot of people offer, but they love strawberries, which some folks report their flocks not wanting at all.

I know right. The only reason I give mine lettuce is because it't the only thing our ducks get a chance to eat. Because the chickens don't touch it XD.

 

[frostic]

Funny, I'm actually typing out an article on this right now!

Yes, I feed my chickens scraps. They get just about anything we humans don't eat. Watermelon rinds, pumpkin guts, and old bread are some of their favorites. I especially try to give them a lot of leafy greens in the winter!

you should not feed them old bread or anything spoiled...

 

[jgarner1327]

Do you feed your flock KITCHEn scraps if so what kind of foods are in the Mixture...

I give mine yogurt, cooked quinoa, cut up grapes, persimmon, apples, watermelon, and they love canned corn frozen in a muffin tin on a hot day.

 

[RebeccaRN]

Currently scrambling 30 eggs (and shells) to feed back to them, plus the core of last night's lettuce, part of two tomato, some carrot ends (and greens), they ignore the onion paper (in quantity, I know that's dangerous, but my birds do not go so hungry they would consider eating it), part of a cucumber, and a few outer cabbage leaves. What they don't eat will compost in the run.

So, yes.

The eggs are because my flock is producing far more than I can eat plus give away - sadly, there have been no takers from the local church, and only two neighbors take some off my hands periodically.

I give my extra eggs to family and co-workers

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I give my extra eggs to family and co-workers

My closest family is almost 6 hours drive away, and I'm "gainfully unemployed" while we slowly build a house on our property - a process much delayed, and at greatly increased expense, due to both our relative remoteness and COVID. I'm offering free eggs via sign post to anyone who drives by, and the local churches. FL statutes, as I understand them, don't allow food pantries (the closest is 45 min away) to accept eggs from me, because I'm not licensed.

How remote? Not middle of Alaska stuff, but I'm in the low population half of a county whose population (under 20k) is less than the city I moved from (about 28k), which is less than the student population of the University I used to attend (over 50k) in a metroplex of about 3.1M I used to live in. My closest neighbors are a commercial grape farm, and a number of cattle pastures. My 30 acre plot is **small** compared to most in the county.

So yeah, I'm a bit envious.

 

[RebeccaRN]

A favorite of my girls is canned salmon and frozen corn that I warm up in the microwave to thaw out.

 

[RebeccaRN]

My closest family is almost 6 hours drive away, and I'm "gainfully unemployed" while we slowly build a house on our property - a process much delayed, and at greatly increased expense, due to both our relative remoteness and COVID. I'm offering free eggs via sign post to anyone who drives by, and the local churches. FL statutes, as I understand them, don't allow food pantries (the closest is 45 min away) to accept eggs from me, because I'm not licensed.

How remote? Not middle of Alaska stuff, but I'm in the low population half of a county whose population (under 20k) is less than the city I moved from (about 28k), which is less than the student population of the University I used to attend (over 50k) in a metroplex of about 3.1M I used to live in. My closest neighbors are a commercial grape farm, and a number of cattle pastures. My 30 acre plot is **small** compared to most in the county.

So yeah, I'm a bit envious.

Ohhhh ok, but that actually sounds wonderful!