How do you get your chickens to eat cabbage?

[Whiskey Bay]

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My guys(and girls) will scarf down anything that hits the floor. If I don't have anything fresh for them at the time(hubby didn't plant a garden this year)... I'll open a can of peas,can of carrots,and whatever else I have mix it up and put it out.They LOVE the carrots...This is usually when i worm them too.I add Cayenne pepper to the mix and let it set for awhile to saok in.

 

[Netherworldtaken]

ran a jack chain through it and hung it from the run roof. they loved it. or we bring it out chopped with other stuff on a green plastic picnic plate. we can ow start parades in the backyard by just walking through the yard with the plate.

 

[roz]

I hang a whole cabbage from a bungie feeder we'd gotten for squirrels a while back. The whole cabbage is attached at the stem by the screw that was suppose to hold corn for squirrels...you can screw any veggie with a core into it. I hang corn on the cob from it as well. We also use a chip clip to hang kale, collards, and chard by their stems from the same feeder. My chickens love to jump and grab a piece of whatever is hanging.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

For chicks and older birds that have never been exposed to it before I usually chop it up for them. Finely for the chicks, not so fine for older birds, but I chop it up first. The first time they may or may not eat much. The second time they usually scarf it up.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

Chicken.Lytle :

I tried a cabbage experiment. I tried feeding cabbage to my birds. Rejected!

How can I get them to eat cabbage?

My chickens LOVE cabbage. I grow extra in my garden for them.


Sometimes I give them a head right out of the garden, but other times I just give them all of the outer leaves and keep the head for the family.


Either way, they LOVE cabbage! I don't have to persuade them to eat it...​

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

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Interesting... I never cut the head. I just give them the head as a whole entity (unless I'm keeping the head for the family and just giving them the rest of the plant). They seem to like pecking away at it, sort of the same way that they seem to enjoy pecking away at a Purina Flock Block.

 

[wekiva bird]

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A.T. Hagan :

For chicks and older birds that have never been exposed to it before I usually chop it up for them. Finely for the chicks, not so fine for older birds, but I chop it up first. The first time they may or may not eat much. The second time they usually scarf it up.​

 

[michelle43]

I hang it in a suet feeder and they pick at it...

 

[darkmatter]

I let my chickens into the Garden in the fall and they glean/eat everything down to dirt including all cabbage and cole crops. They ate the remaining Kale down to stubs. I just hope I don't fall down in the garden while the chickens are there!

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

Uh oh. I put the remainder of the head of cabbage in the pen. The girls got over their reticence and pigged out!

Buffy was waddling around and looked bloated. Is this dangerous?