(please add your suggestions to the list of)Things to tell your spouse not to feed the babies:

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

Do not let your spouse feed these to your babies, because YOU have to deal with the bowl issues:
- baby marshmallows to chickens (they go at them with an adorable ardor, I admit) It gives them water-diarrhea

 

[PioneerChicks]

I often end up picking through the scrap bin before the chickens get to it. Some things I avoid:

• Raw potatoes and peels (cooked potatoes are okay)
• Stems and leaves from plants in the nightshade family such as tomatoes and potatoes (tomatoes are fine, as long as there are no leaves)
• Avocado skins and pits, though some people prefer to avoid avocados altogether
• Strongly salty foods (lightly salted is okay)
• Too many apple seeds (apple seeds are toxic consumed in large amounts)
• Chocolate and sugary foods and snacks, including candy
• Raw or dry beans
• Raw eggs (there is some debate on this, mostly because feeding raw eggs sometimes causes egg-eating habits)
• Chicken (other meat is okay by my standards)

 

[mowin]

Pizza

 

[21hens-incharge]

Pizza

I love that answer after the recent thread regarding pizza......

 

[MissE]

Mine isn't the type to feed them anything without asking me first. He asks what scraps to save, but doesn't feed them. He has said a couple times I should show him how to do everything in case I can't. Said it's pretty easy. Food is in the metal bins. It goes in the green and white hanging things. Water goes in the red and white thing up on blocks.

 

[Rammy]

I often end up picking through the scrap bin before the chickens get to it. Some things I avoid:

• Raw potatoes and peels (cooked potatoes are okay)
• Stems and leaves from plants in the nightshade family such as tomatoes and potatoes (tomatoes are fine, as long as there are no leaves)
• Avocado skins and pits, though some people prefer to avoid avocados altogether
• Strongly salty foods (lightly salted is okay)
• Too many apple seeds (apple seeds are toxic consumed in large amounts)
• Chocolate and sugary foods and snacks, including candy
• Raw or dry beans
• Raw eggs (there is some debate on this, mostly because feeding raw eggs sometimes causes egg-eating habits)
• Chicken (other meat is okay by my standards)

I feed mine left over chicken all the time. I tell them thier eating thier cousin.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

Mine isn't the type to feed them anything without asking me first. He asks what scraps to save, but doesn't feed them. He has said a couple times I should show him how to do everything in case I can't. Said it's pretty easy. Food is in the metal bins. It goes in the green and white hanging things. Water goes in the red and white thing up on blocks.

I labelled the jars, and he still ends up giving the ducks the hen food and the hens the duck food. I don't think it is his fault, I think the chickens are tricking him by swapping out the jar lids (on which i put the labels), because the chickens ALWAYS want to steal food that isn't meant for them.

just to be clear...
it can't possibly be that I mix up the lids by mistake and don't notice because i know the food on sight. Instead I believe it is the chickens doing it.