Give peas a chance!

[Cyprus]

Peppers are not a crowd favorite. Or tomatoes.

 

[Shadrach]

My hens before this batch wouldn't eat carrots for some reason. I was given half a tube of the fancy wet dog food with peas and carrots in it, chucked some chunks out and those carrots sat for days.

The chickens here won't eat carrots either.

 

[FishMtFarm]

Mine will eat just about anything except broccoli. They love everything else mentioned on here.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Peppers are not a crowd favorite. Or tomatoes.

Mine would tear off and devour every tomato off the plant if they could. And strawberries, even unripe ones... between the dog and the chickens, no humans get to eat strawberries.

 

[RWBP]

The feed I use has field peas in it. The ladies didn't like them at first, but seem to now. They love them when fermented, I think that's how they finally got a taste for them.

Never tried feeding them peas humans would eat, but they don't like cauliflower stalks, peppers (they pick the seeds), squash, or carrots. They love ripe tomatoes from our garden, but not tomatoes from the store.

 

[LizzzyJo]

Mine love bananas! I tried so many times to give them frozen peas in the summer but they hate them. Maybe if you mash them up they’ll try them then find out that they like them?

 

[Criticalicious]

Sometimes it takes multiple attempts. Mine did not like anything when they were babies. Now that they're older, they like most treats. Lettuce is not a crowd pleaser but other than that, they love tomatoes, bananas, strawberries, pumpkin, sardines, peas, even slugs and snails.

They never like new stuff AT FIRST because they're afraid of it. But if I pick it up and offer it to them like it's a treat and then leave it in the run for a few hours to let them think about it, someone will taste it and then it's a free-for-all. Sometimes I have to show them there's good stuff and that they might like it. Like convincing little kids!

 

[Northern Flights]

Forgive me if I appear to be raining on this here parade, I truly mean no disrespect. However, snails and slugs can carry tapeworm and in some places almost always do. Tapeworm eggs (fantastically small things they are) are deposited on the grass etc by infected critters and the bugs, slugs and snails that eat it make for an excellent intermediate host, later to be gobbled up by ... you guessed it, chickens. Sorry be be such a downer. I have tapeworm on the brain lately... Figuratively of course.

 

[Keeperofmunchkins]

Mine love peas and Bananas but are not cabbage fans. I have noticed my bantams are less likely to eat strange new foods than my large fowl hens.

However I have also noticed that if you leave the food in their reach for long enough, they WILL eat almost anything eventually. My chooks free-range during the day so I threw out a past its best raw whole stalk/head of broccoli recently and they of course turned up their noses. If you offer small florets of the stuff they wont touch it. But I left the brocoli outside... And was surprised to see them pecking at it the next day. A few days later all that remained was half the stalk. Their curiosity and incessant hunger makes all but the weirdest human offerings irresistible.

 

[Keeperofmunchkins]

Having said that though, I have a house chicken who is so spoiled he won't even eat bread unless it is buttered. Thinks he is a royal rooster or something. But what he doesn't realise is that this means I don't give him any of my sandwiches at all anymore. The dry corners of crusts were the only bit I was willing to share.