over ripe bananas

[hen-at-home]

I'm having a hard time knowing what table scraps are ok to feed my girls. They are 13 weeks old. I have some over ripe bananas and wondered if I can feed those to them? I'd have to peel them?? Are apple cores ok just thrown in the run? I know cherry pits are "right out" - no, no's!

I'm trying to read through the feeding and watering your flock section, but I struggle with the time it takes (and how distracted I get with all the irrelevant details to some very good stories

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Just yay or nay me and I'll get those darn bananas off my counter!

 

[Oven Ready]

One thing they used to serve was "brains and eggs."

I had to go look this up to check it really was Brains & Eggs and I found this page Brains&Egg.

The guy says ....

We love scrambled eggs with fresh brains, and when I travel, I carry my brains in a can.

Aren't men supposed to keep them in their pants ?

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

yay. Peel them, although they will usually pick at the peeling. Won't completely eat it, but....

 

[TipsyDog]

You can check out this treat chart for starters. It gives a very good basic understanding for chickens.

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

 

[BethieofVA]

Bananas and cantalope my girls' favorite treat. I freeze the bananas during hot weather and they go nuts for them.

 

[Oven Ready]

Bananas - Yes (peeled or not)
Apple Core - Yes (even when they are brown, dry and shriveled)

Anything else in your kitchen - Almost definately Yes, especially meaty things including meat and bones from a .... .....chicken!!!.

Feeding them egg & bits of chicken will not turn them cannibal. They have no idea what the inside of an egg looks like (eta - wrote not instead of nor) nor the inside of a chicken, so they do not connect the fried egg, sunny side up, with what is hidden in their own eggs. Likewise feeding chicken & chicken bones will not make them suddenly decide to eviscerate a coop mate to get at the parsons nose.

If they don't like it they won't eat it - they are pretty smart when it comes to not poisoning themselves, not to say they won't do it but generally they're OK at it.

 

[bockbock2008]

I feed mine any left overs or when I clean out the fridge. I have found out they don't like celery and I don't feed them potatoes, onions or garlicy foods.

 

[shopchicks]

Mine love the overripe bananas. I peel the banana, but I throw the peel in too, and they will peck at it and get some bits from the inside.

 

[Dar]

if i eat it so does my chickens, from my daughters left over cereal in the morning, to her left over dinner at night, her bread crusts from her lunch too

I also clean the fridge out and feed it to the chickens as long as there is no mold and the food is still good enough for a human to eat.

I give then a teaspoon of crushed fresh garlic too to help prevent worms... + I cook with a lot of garlic and they get it in plate scraping along with cooked onions too

 

[Tala]

I give them just about anything. What they don't eat.....well I haven't found out what that IS yet! LOL
When I clean out the fridge I give them "borderline" stuff so long as it's not fuzzy or moldy and any tablescraps that I just simply am not in the mood to eat again. During the winter I clean out the kitchen to make soup, but I'm just not feelin the urge to eat soup when it's 100*F outside, ya know? So long as it feeds SOMEONE in this household, it's not wasted IMO.