QUESTION about sweet potato peels

[ml]

Sweet potatos here for deer feed, go about 3 cents a lb. I buy a large grain sack full or bushel at a time. They get cooked then just cooled down and fed to the birds. My birds love them and eat the skins and all.

ML

 

[MrsSmitho]

Way cool

I cooked the peels and they loved them!!! Including the juice

We had my family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and they get all the scraps today...they are some spoiled chickens

Thanks for all the cool info folks!!

Have a blessed day!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cackel]

I had my thanksgiving dinner this past Sunday ,because my kids have so many other places to go with their wifes ,And I gave my chickens my sweet potatoe peels.and they loved them On Sunday I put a 5 gal. bucket outside the back door and told everyone to scrap there plate in it when they were finished eating, So I could feeed it to my chickens.Today my chickens had there thanksgiving dinner,I never waste anything anymore ,they get even the snallest piece of bread that we have left over, I have noticed that the more I feed them scraps the less they like chicken feed .

 

[MrsSmitho]

hehehehe, we do too!
I have composted all my life...and I give it to the birds first, no amtter what it is

I do cook the peels, no citrus, I read on here...and I chop all the celery and carrot pieces for them...

The only thing thsat goes into the compost first is coffee grounds.
(the chickens like them too, I just don't want to tweek the birds

They are a blast!!

 

[chickbliss7]

I cook a large sweet potato in the oven and place in a heavy ceramic dish for the chickens. They eat it all, except for a bit of the skin. Their favorite hanging treat is iceberg lettuce. There isn't much nutrition, but they have lots of fun jumping and pecking. Cabbage head is good too. Their most favorite things are grapes and meal worms--they just go crazy for both. I also bake sugar pumpkins and acorn squash, half them and give them those. They peck out all the meat and seeds and leave a perfect hollowed out shell! I feed a variety of healthy snacks in addition to their layer feed, oyster shell. Their feathers are full, combs and wattles brilliant red and they seem very happy.

 

[KanakaNui]

You could sprout the sweet potatoes and feed the greens to your birds. I grow sweet potatoes in the summer and plant extra just for the greens to feed to my ducks. They love em.