Is this normal sprouting/foddering eating?

lissalischicks

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Jan 31, 2016
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So my girls only eat the seeds. They break off the green stalk and munch on the seed. Is this normal? I thought they were supposed to eat the green portion. I have tried alfalfa, black sunflower, wheatgrass, oats, barley and couple other seeds with ( what I feel is) no success. But is it normal?
 
Chickens, like many children, are slow to try anything new. Keep offering. My flock loves some greens and sprouts; grass shoots of any kind, broccoli, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.

They don't like cauliflower, squash, egg plant, and peppers-green or otherwise.
 
Then stop and, maybe, try something else. Mine love dried mealworms and hard-boiled egg.
They already get all that and then some but greens have different benefits. I was just wondering if what they were doing was normal or normally chickens eat the green and all.
I always try it again during fall and winter because our grass dies and I try to get them to eat spouts or fodder.
 
Have you tried planting seed in a pot/container, let it get some height to it, then set the pot/container in with your birds. Oats and millet work well for this as does wild bird seed.
 

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