Eggs and feeding scraps

[NC ChickenKate]

My eleven week old banty mixed flock love apples, but have yet to eat the skin...love cooked potatoes and cooked sweet potatoes, cooked pasta, broccoli, kale, cabbage, collards, beets (tops and all), carrots, cauliflour, zuccini, cucumber, salad greens, raw oats, scrambled eggs (cooked with the shell smushed up), tomato and tomato sauce, apple cider vinegar in their water, roses and other flowers from the garden, flies and other bugs that find their way into their enclosed yard...I still finely chop most of their veggies before feeding and they clean their plates. I had goats years ago and chickens will eat 10 times more varied items than goats.

 

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[confusedturtle]

I have not fed my eggs shells to the chickens because Im afraid they will start eating newly laid eggs, never thought of crushing them up in a coffee grinder. I use mine in the compost, now I wonder which one is better LoL! My chickens love fruits and veggies, when apples or pears fall from the tree they attack them, I had to chase them out of the berries (we didnt have many & wanted to eat them too LoL), the bell peppers & tomatoes. Mine will eat the peels and everything. I never thought of feeding them potato peels but I will from now on. I am learning so much, love BYC!

 

[JodyJo]

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I don't grind my shells up that much, just crush them...I don't think they will start eating eggs if they eat their own shells...one poster said they will just throw eggs on the ground if they are found cracked...I wont do this, this to me, would lead to egg eating, but they swore by it, their chickens don't eat eggs. Each chicken is different though, so all advice is good, you have to sort through it all and choose what works for you!