Feeding tomatoes?

[ScoobyRoo]

When I'm canning, they get all the scraps. They love it!

 

[allisojo]

Super duper. Thanks everyone for your help!

 

[countrybum]

My chickens eat everything:

spaghetti and meatballs
chicken and turkey carcass'
lettuce
spinache
tomatoes
black olives
cucumbers
cantalope
watermelon
egg plant
squash
apples
oranges
bananas
apricot/strawberry jelly
apple sauce
cocktail fruit
corn on the cob/canned/cream
fresh green beans/canned
asparagus
broccoli
cauliflower
broccoli/cauliflower w/ cream cheese
mango
amish/raisin/wheat/rye/white bread
bird seeds (all types)
horse grain
chicken and dumplings/rice
cooked potatoes

--- and my list can go on and on and on and my eggs do not taste funny. Every time I go to the store for groceries, I spend $10 on veggies for my chickens.

 

[ducks4you]

I'm with you CoyoteMagic---my 2007 flock free-ranged it right into my tomato garden and started gobbling every tomato they could sink their beaks into!!!

 

[countrybum]

Tomatoes, my chickens love tomatoes and everything else, but tomatoes are what the eat first, no matter what is mixed in.

 

[skywatcher]

I noticed if i feed alot of tomatoes to the chickens they stop laying for a couple weeks.

 

[countrybum]

MIne get tomatoes everyother day and they have not quit laying. So what is to much?

 

[WoodlandWoman]

If they eat so much that they aren't eating enough layer feed and don't have enough protein to make an egg, then I could see it being a problem.

 

[elliemay0305]

i got a book when i was getting into chickens a couple of years ago and in the book i read that chickens can eat anything that dont eat them!

now i dont know if that is the best advise but i feed my chickens all kind of things and i havent lost any because of it. i will throw left overs out to my dog and its a race to see who can eat the most first, my dog ( the good one),chickens, or turkeys!!

 

[countrybum]

Mine had homemade chicken and dumplings last night, picked the bowl clean.