Hands down, what is a chickens FAVORITE food/treat/scraps?

[Liamm_1]

Mine are 2 months old, so age maybe has some bearing on this. But they DON'T like: Chicken scratch, uncooked rice, pancake crumbs, several sugar cereals I've thrown down, worms (too big I think).
What they do love is: uncooked oatmeal, tortillas: flour or corn, apples, fresh or rotten, the prefer rotten since they're softer and loaded with maggots lol. speaking of which, they love maggots, bugs and there's some grubs in the ground that I still don't know what they are, like a cocoon, but they love them.

 

[Tdub4chiks]

Mealworms - no doubt about it!

 

[tammyd57]

My chickens have a new favorite every day!

Yesterday it was chopped Swiss Chard. Today it was grated carrots. Tomorrow it will be leftover pasta.
Their favorite is whatever I have in my bucket when I sit in the 'treat seat'.

 

[7L Farm]

Grasshoppers!! They also like butterflies. The only problem is they can't catch them. I was out watching them & they tried & tried but couldn't catch the butterfly. I sat there laughing.

 

[dsvabulas]

Yogurt, watermelon, tomatoes, any leftover bread. Today they're getting banana and pumpking bread leftover from a wedding breakfast. They'll go bonkers for it! And a big bucket of tomato trimmings from my processing of about 40 lbs yesterday

 

[Britbrighton]

Mine LOVE prepared grits with a little milk....when they see me coming with the pan, it is a stampede!!!

 

[shellybean40]

Ball moss out of our oak trees!! no joke!!

 

[Marion565]

Scratch and corn, hands down, they go nuts over it, even my little ones.

 

[bayouchica]

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I'd be careful about the uncooked oatmeal & uncooked rice.your birds could get an impacted crop or sour crop.

Just speaking from experience

 

[bayouchica]

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yes & it's great to feed them in the winter months. I usually hang it on the fence line & it's be gone in no time.
mine also love the tiny acorns (orange insides) I think they're red oak acorns???