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When I give it to the chickens, I chop it up along with other veggies and whatnot....throw on a little of this and a little of that. I've had pretty good luck with the mealies eating it as well. I don't over feed the mealies so they usually appreciate most of what I give them.....still don't do potato though and I don't know what's up with that.
Mine liked kale when they had been without anything for about a week. Now that winter is here I have more time for the mealies. Summer was very hard for me to have time with them.
And mine still do not really care for potatoes either and not so much the sweet potatoes but I had just given pumpkin to them so I am thinking they just didn't need more.
Hey, I was sharing the bounty!!!
My chickens won't eat greens I throw out unless it is babies in brooders. I have all my chickens in moveable tractors or pens accessible to grass so they get their greens. A tomato is a different story though! Different vitamins.
Hope you all did not eat too much yesterday yourselves. Goodness knows I did....again and again!
Living in PA, we don't have anything growing during the winter for the girls to graze on. I make a platter of chopped veggies, yogurt, cottage cheese, BOSS, mealies & whatever else is available and they clean the platter bare. They love chopped cucumber, lettuce, kale, celery leaves but it does make a difference when it's chopped. If I put in a whole leaf of something, it might not be consumed, but chopped works for the girls.
Been rationing out the frozen mealies since the bugs are gone too. The girls hunt and hunt but no bugs to be found....the whole reason behind me starting the mealie farm in the first place. It's very satisfying to give them mealies that I raised myself over the freeze/dried ones. ALTHOUGH, they don't care where the mealies come from! hehehee
