organic garden organic chickens

[daryl]

What garden food do your chickens like to eat .My garden is still not mature but will have lots of leftovers soon.

 

[LovinMyHensInNC!]

Chickens love tomatoes! Check out this great thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart

 

[Appaloosa Hill Farm]

Yep to the tomatoes! Slugs have been eating small holes in my tomatoes, so the chickens are getting a bonus inside their tomatoes.

 

[Aquadogspa]

My chickens love all the spinach and swiss chard they have been getting from my garden after it got hot and all the plants bolted!

 

[The Zoo]

Everything. Cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, strawberries, cherries, grapes, peas (shelled naturally), all greens, herbs, watermelon, pretty much anything they can get their beaks on.

And what they didn't like last year they LOVE this year. Go figure. I'm curious to see what they'll do with eggplant.

 

[daryl]

Thanks ,I have 12 RIR AND 12 jombo cornish ,they also like to eat
rubarb leaves,my birds have a 75 by 60ft. yard to peck and explore they love to set in the long grass looking for bugs.This is my first time and loving it.

 

[GardeNerd]

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They eat everything! Fruit, leaves, flowers, everything! The only thing mine have turned down was a giant Zuccini, but they knew if they held out they would get their favorite grape leaves. They don't bother the leaves of the thorny berries plants too much, but they love the raspberries and blackberries on them. It is funny to watch them jump for the ones too high to just easily peck off.