Goodness! My hens went crazy over a tomato.

[SpeckledPullet]

I tried a tomato for the first time and my hens went NUTS over it. They started to bicker a bit, too. I have tried quite a few other treats, but the tomato beats all!

 

[gryeyes]

I have hung a head of cabbage up for mine. They were scared of the first one

but this second one is already half gone after only ONE day. (7 chickens.) I call it a Tether Cabbage.

 

[SpeckledPullet]

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Oh, great idea! What type of leetuce do you use? Is it iceberg?

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Never feed lettuce in any great amount. It give the chickens the squirts if its more then a tiny treat.
Raw Cabbage is fabulous though.
I love the idea of tether cabbage.
If I tried that with the monsters we grow up here though, it would probably kill them with the back swing

 

[Soaring Chicks]

Mine love them too. I give them all kinds of extras from the graden. I learned I had to make sure everyone could get some. Or it would be a cat fight.

 

[the Pollo Loco]

O'yeah, I had a beautiful garden this summer and evertime I picked some tomatoes they always got their share!!! They LOVE them, yet moderation is important, some do experience the squirts!!!

 

[felidaet]

I gave mine a couple of tomatoes once in awhile last summer (17 pullets). One day we were canning tomatoes and I dumped a bucket of the scraps in the run. Many of them got the squirts. As others have said, they are a popular treat but feed in moderation.

 

[SilverPhoenix]

Mine go crazy over tomatoes, too! I don't give them often, but when they do get them they go totally nuts. I love it when they stick their beak right into the tomato and run around with it--so funny!

It's great watching chickens go nuts over tasty things. I want to try the head of cabbage trick sometime!

 

[SallyF]

Mine love tomatoes also; in fact that's what the roo in my avatar was eating. I tried the hanging cabbage today. At first they ignored it, but then one got brave enough to take the first bite. I put it up mid-morning and a little over half of it was gone by mid-afternoon. I think it got the chicken vote of approval.

 

[GraceAK]

my girls love tomatoes! I gave them one of the tomatoes that was chillin' in my kitchen getting ready to rot, and they were fighting over it. They love their tomatoes

they pick up the whole tomato and play keep away, but they can't run with that big tomato! Silly Chooken!