Feedback on Learning Center "Treats Chart"

[doxallo]

Thank you SO much for having this list here - and all of the other information in the forum - SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO appreciate it!

 

[ForgePondFarm]

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I am curious as the responses you get to your question. There is another whole series of threads devoted to the deep litter method which recommends grass clippings as a viable option when adding bedding. I have just stared to use it

I always feed grass clippings either in the coop or dumped into the run. Have done this forever & have never in 50 years of chicken keeping had a bird become crop bound.

Sir. I am grateful for your experience and opinion. My grandfather has been gone for several years now. Before and through WWII he raised and processed 5000 broilers a week. Prior to that the farm was general and not specialized. It as been my dream for many years to bring the farm back, the last vestiges have been gone for more than thirty five years. True my goals are modest, more of a micro homestead farm for family sustenance. I know I m kinda off topic I just wanted you to know I appricated the input. The fifty year comment just brought back treasured memories.

 

[jomoncon]

Pecans are another nut favorite. Early this year, I gathered up 2 5gallon buckets full of pecans from the backyard of an empty house in my neighborhood. I'd sit outside with a wooden mallet cracking the pecans on the patio. The chickens learned real quick that when I sat down with the mallet & the bucket, the pecans were on the way. The only problem I had was not hitting a chicken head while I was trying to crack the pecans with the mallet!

 

[garthmyers]

can you give them uncooked green beans?

 

[CarolynF]

garthmyers:
A chicken and egg were lying in bed together. The chicken was seen to be relaxed, a wing behind his head, and stroking his chest lazily and smoking a cigarette. By contrast, the egg had turned his back to the chicken. He was staring at the wall, his arms crossed, and with a disgruntled attitude. The chicken leaned over to the egg and said, well, I guess that settles that question.

That just cracked me up!!!

As to beans, I heard that recently, i.e. don't eat raw green beans or feed to chickens. But when I researched it I couldn't find anything factual against it. As far as I can figure out, it's an old wives tale. I know people that have eaten them raw all their life. But you might want to do the research yourself, it can be difficult to separate fact from myth.​

 

[3 Dog Farm]

My hens don't like raw green beans, so I boil them for five minutes. Same with carrots. They love them both if they're cooked and soft enough to eat.

 

[Silkies Mom]

Thank you. I found this list for treats really helpful. I still have trouble interesting them in leafy greens??? I tried some celery leaves the other day with sliced up grapes. They didn't hardly touch it. Their fav is bread. Second fav is kernel corn. Third fav is carrots and raisins. Their like little kids that don't eat the green veggies!

 

[MyChickenWishList]

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My chickens dont go nuts over leafy greens either...I am thinking cause they free range on about 1/4 acre fenced in area and get all the green they need. But like yours mine love bread (which I tear up and soak in a bit of milk so they dont choke) and I only give whole grain bread.
Their most favorite of all is meat...any meat or noodles from a hotdish that are sauce covered...they love protein. I also had to resort to feeding my cats in a closed pen too cause the birds wanted the cat food so bad. So if I dont have some kinda hotdish or left over meat about every other day I scramble eggs for them...I have to say my girls are very spoiled

 

[ID Pam]

I am new to this forum and I really enjoyed reading all 42 pages of the replies to the "Treat Chart" I have a small mixed flock half standards and half bantams. They have free run of my almost half acre fenced in yard during the day. They put themselves to bed at dusk and I lock them up for safety at night. I will be adding cottage cheese and yogurt to their occasional treats as well as cooked oatmeal when the weather turns cold. Thanks so much for the list.

Pam in ID

 

[Peaches Lee]

I was reading in a 1970s National Geographic that farmers in South America would feed their chickens Marigolds to get the yolks a deep orange color because this was thought to be the healthiest eggs found at the market!!

I grew Marigolds this year, plucked a head and fed it to my chickens, they weren't too interested, but they were pre-occupied with other goodies at the time.