Food Scraps?

[Hayduke27]

HEy, was that made law and if so, was that law changed?

So far as I know it wasn't a law, it was just a suggestion to help out the war effort at home.

 

[HS Pye]

So far as I know it wasn't a law, it was just a suggestion to help out the war effort at home.

Yep.

 

[McCoysOrps]

Can someone here post some pics of their chickens that eat table scraps contains meat and pasta and all that and another post some photos of chickens fed strictly on a scratch and layer feed diet please? I'd like to compare for future reference on my own flock. Thanks

 

[DuckRaiser]

I think that giving them scraps, all scraps besides chocolate is a good idea. Makes them have more health.

 

[McCoysOrps]

I think that giving them scraps, all scraps besides chocolate is a good idea. Makes them have more health.

Yes

 

[DuckRaiser]

Yes

I think this because just giving them scratch made in factories isn't very good, yes, I still give them scratch but also lots of scraps no matter what it is. Chickens can eat anything really if it is not poisoned.

 

[DuckRaiser]

OH MY GOSH SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ROOSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bert2368]

Oh yes. They will eat just about everything we eat (I'm way too selfish to give them any chocolate though- MINE!)

All the extra or less than perfect garden produce, veggie trimmings, leftovers we can't eat fast enough. Most impressive site I've seen was the flock swarming and devouring a sauerbraten roast that had gone bad in the refrigerator- Like pirhannas!

I take the shrimp shells and tails from shell on shrimp we eat, run it in the blender with the (thawed) eggs that freeze and crack before I can gather them (lots of that, this winter!) and make them a seafood omelet. THAT puts some color in the egg yolks!

Any of the squash that goes bad in storage gets micro waved and sent to the chickens, seeds & all. Funny watching them try to clean their bills off after eating that.

 

[DuckRaiser]

Oh yes. They will eat just about everything we eat (I'm way too selfish to give them any chocolate though- MINE!)

All the extra or less than perfect garden produce, veggie trimmings, leftovers we can't eat fast enough. Most impressive site I've seen was the flock swarming and devouring a sauerbraten roast that had gone bad in the refrigerator- Like pirhannas!

I take the shrimp shells and tails from shell on shrimp we eat, run it in the blender with the (thawed) eggs that freeze and crack before I can gather them (lots of that, this winter!) and make them a seafood omelet. THAT puts some color in the egg yolks!

Any of the squash that goes bad in storage gets micro waved and sent to the chickens, seeds & all. Funny watching them try to clean their bills off after eating that.

Yes, I had some bad, really old soup and poured it in there, the ducks loved it! My chickens liked solids more, they only took a few sips of the pea soup.

 

[KatieKanDo]

In the winter I routinely enrich their Dumour layer crumbles with scrambled eggs, green veges, sliced up fruit, old fashioned cooked oats, flax seed, cooked sweet potato and natural unsweetened yogurt. They are very fond of shredded cabbage and spinach and go nuts for live and dried mealworms. I have to watch them around buildings with peeling paint however as they will pick off the peels and eat the paint. During the 20 below zero days, I was still getting 5 eggs a day from six old hens. I did have them under a heat lamp at night, but had to discontinue that because the bully hen Zelda was picking feathers from the others. I guess they can see in the black lamp light. We are really anxious for spring here in Ohio...