How do you get your chickens to eat cabbage?

[Whiskey Bay]

I just break mine up into med size pieces and toss handfuls out to them while trying not to be run slap over. The younguns usually dont eat it until later on.Guess they get to the point they figure they better get them some.They will eat ANYTHING I throw out for them.

 

[wsdareme]

I give our girls a cabbage tether ball! Take a long shanked screwdriver and push a piece of baling twine through. Tie a knot so it won't slip off the end. Tie the other end where it can hang at chicken height. Sit back and watch the fun!

Before (it's hanging to the left of the Buff Orpington):

After:

 

[WoodlandWoman]

If you cut it, you could press seeds that they like into the grooves between the layers of leaves. Hulled sunflower seeds will get my chickens to eat or do anything.

 

[johny]

Peel open some of the outer leaves but leave them attached at the base.
They easily bite off chunks of free leaf.
Once they are used to that that figure out pretty quickly what to do with the rest.

 

[Moabite]

Mine didn't like it at first either. I let their feeder run out once and now they eat anything I put in there. I saw on chicken get a hold of a 6 inch piece of silicone caulking and gulp it down in 2 bites. They don't like orange food for some reason. Carrot peels get raked out to the compost bin.

 

[FireTigeris]

I toss it in and count my fingers- they are attacking it before it hits the ground.

I'd leave one in with them and be 'late' to give real/normal food one morning someone might try it and find its good- it only takes one taker.

 

[jwchicklady]

mine love cabbage in the winter when they can't get out and free range. I just toss it in the coop and it is gone by the end of the day.

 

[BJnMe]

Mine don't even leave the core.

I have a rope in the coop with a eye bolt on it. Take the cabbage in twist the eye bolt into the core while 30 chickens are jumping and tearing leaves off it. Let it swing and run for your life.

 

[linmar]

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I save every little bit of fat from meat trimmings and soup skimings, freeze it and later put it over things I make for them.

A new recipe: boil quinoa. Add finely ground egg shells and fat, olive oil perhaps. Serve. The omegas that you give them probably end up in the eggs you eat.

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

Thanks for the encouragement. I tried again and they might have choked down a little cabbage this time.