Growing Garden Treats

[Tracydr]

Mine also love garlic chives. Also, other herbs like bee balm and mint, which is of course super easy to grow large quantities of. They like nasturtiums,tomatoes, all greens, squash, melons, strawberries, corn.
They also love grass, which they graze on daily. I keep the garden walkways in Bermuda, which I water and fertilize for the chickens, fencing only the actual gardens. In the winter I'll over seed with rye and annual clover. I'll probably plant them a big patch of mustard and kale for the winter, too.

 

[Denninmi]

One of the absolutely easiest things to grow that they love are cereal grain plants -- oats, rye, wheat, or barley. Just broadcast over loose soil, rake in, and water. They can start eating it as tiny sprouts, or you can let it grow all the way to the stage where it has "milky" kernels in the heads. They love it, and its really cheap and easy to do. Pretty fast, too, anywhere from about a week to a couple of months depending upon the grain, conditions, and time of year.

 

[Brookiesflock]

I buy seed pks called Chicken Salad, its all the weeds they love, I got it on Mypetchicken web site, I grow it for them and my daughter pks it and gives it to the girls they love it and my daughter loves to feed it to them

 

[Birdy_Buddy]

I'm in Sacramento California so I have a long growing season and can grow greens in the winter like chard and lettuce. Right now I have cukes, corn, crenshaw melons, zucchini, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and a bunch of other stuff. My lot is inside the Sacramento city limits so I can't have chickens yet. When I move I will have a lot more room and it is in the county where chickens are allowed. . Thank you for the prompt responses.

Mike

 

[Gatordog]

Mine like meat, but yesterday they attack the grain seed sprouts. I live on a 400 acre farm and my farmers Combine is crap, so it leaves cut heads on the ground. I took a bunch of the cut heads to feed to birds and after recent heavy rains, they sprouted. The peeps loved the stuff.

 

[LoreenH]

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I just planted some of this last weekend. It's already starting to grow. I hope my girls like it, they are quite picky about greens.

 

[Brookiesflock]

they will love it!! mine go crazy for it
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I just planted some of this last weekend. It's already starting to grow. I hope my girls like it, they are quite picky about greens.

 

[LPOHHomestead]

I planted a row of sunflowers at the edge of our garden for the chickens. I'm thinking I can just toss the dried head in there and they'll go to town on the seeds since that seems to be a favorite treat. Sunflowers are very easy to grow! I say give them a try.

 

[ll]

I planted this:
treatsforchickens.com
it sprouted overnight and they chowed it down when a few inches tall in a salad bar.