Epic FAIL treats......

[mypeeps'n'me]

I have been rolling on the floor reading these posts! My husband says our chickens eat better than we do, but it looks like that happens a lot!

We play chicken football with grapes...throw a grape in the middle of them...one gets and runs for it...another sneaks up on the side and steals it away (can you tell this is the only kind of football I watch?)

Their favorite treat is peanuts, preferably chopped up with other goodies like flax seed, sunflower seeds, and whatever veggies are handy.

 

[PortageGirl]

Ya'll have totally spoiled chickens. Mine eat everything and fight over it ALL! And no, I do NOT starve them, their feeder is full of regular feed, I don NOT starve them!

 

[rolffamily]

I am not up with the abreviations yet. What is BOSS?

 

[Catz1611]

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Mine don't like any type of pepper...green, yellow or red..

I threw some pepper scraps to them thinking they would love them..they ran up, gave them a taste then turned around and walked off..

I think it's anything that has a strong taste or odor is avoided. My girls won't eat my hydrangeas, roses, basil, onions, peppers, or geraniums, and avoid a bunch of weeds that I know have strong smells (like wakerobin--wild geranium).

That makes sense....good information to know! Thank you!

I tried to give them Bean Sprouts today.... I thought they would at least like them... NOPE!

Yet another "F" for me in the "Chicken treat" Category...

 

[Boo-Boo's Mama]

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Black Oil Sunflower Seeds

 

[ReiMiraa]

tomatoes.

i heard they love them. worried about my garden, but they stripped the seeds from the weeds and ate all the clover in the lawn. didnt touch the tomatoes. but i would dump (not human edible) tomatoes from the fruitstand and nothing. but give them cherries, corn, grapes, and other fruit and they go bonkers. they actually prefer the rainier cherries before they eat the bings. picky things.

 

[Kassaundra]

Well so many people posted that their chickens won't eat carrots on this thread, I just had to see if mine would, can't say it was their favorite but they ate them all. I posted earlier they wouldn't eat roly/poly bugs, but they have now gotten over that and once again I can say I have found nothing they won't eat.

 

[Tdub4chiks]

Mine hate green peppers.

 

[maizey]

I gave my 3 week old chicks some crumbled corn bread today and they acted like I had thrown a snake into thier "play pen", They rushed to one corner and froze, stared at it for several minutes and then creeped over and had look.. gave it a couple of pecks, wiped their beaks off and turned their backs on it...who doesnt like corn bread?

 

[TreeHugger]

Black Oil Sunflower Seeds

I've read numerous posts about how great they were and purchased a 50# bag.

My girls run up to me everytime I walk into their run expecting a treat. So I throw a scope of sunflower seeds down and they look at them like a just threw dirt. It took days for them to disappear (I think it's possible the wild birds ate them).

Now I have 48# of black oil sunflower seeds left. I'm thinking the wild birds will be happy with me this winter.