Favorite treats for your chickens

[greenacresinNE]

Mealworms, grapes, watermelon, and chopped greens. They also LOVE fish (cooked leftovers) and will beat up the barn cat to get to his cat kibbles. They also like blueberries but will poop blue for a day afterwards.

 

[PoachiesMom]

String Cheese!!!!!!

 

[theoldchick]

Bread. Like any gal alive they carbo load before strenuous activity like laying eggs!

 

[GA_in_GA]

My two girls really like sunflower seeds (BOSS), millet, oats, barley. Since I bake and grind my own organic grain bread I tried what I had on hand. They also like mealworms, blueberries, and various greens from our garden. Especially Italian parsley and carrot tops.

But today I stopped by a bait shop and bought live crickets. The girls loved chasing the crickets down and eating every last one.

I think you can consider the crickets a lively snack and chicken enrichment. (enrichment=ways to prevent boredom in captive animals)

 

[gale65]

So far they've liked oats, plums, grapes, strawberries, bread, wheat grains (dh saved them for me when he harvested our wheat), rabbit pellets, cantaloupe rinds. They did not like celery too much. Today I threw out some frozen cherry tomatoes I had in the freezer from last summer and at first, they weren't too sure but a few hours later when I went out there, they were all gone.

 

[Carter57]

Mine love watermelon and cracked corn, will eat canapole but not like watermelon...

 

[LadwoodFarm]

We cut tomatoes in half and hold them in our hand...the girls go insane competing for the juicy flesh and seeds inside! They also seem to enjoy chickpeas (ironic, I know).

 

[Ilovemyladies!]

My old rooster Hank loved, loved, loved grapes!

 

[debontheweb]

Yoghurt

 

[afj6710]

They LOVE grapes and figs! And, all kinds of greens from our garden.