Question about things they CANNOT eat

[Barry42001]

I have yet to find food that they won't accept sometimes with more gusto than others always devoured ravenously the main feed that I could buy the mature chickens that have actually started laying what is chicken crumbles or rather laying crumbles which they destroy feeding them about 8 pounds a day LOL well I was that's what I was feeding a flock of 30

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm not completely sure what the foods I'm looking at are described as; my Spanish isn't very good. I'm going to have a look at what they've got and go from there.

How is your Catalan?
Where are you from originally, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Shadrach]

How is your Catalan?
Where are you from originally, if you don't mind me asking?

My Catalan isn't too bad. I still have trouble with the grammar, particularly future tenses.
You need both Catalan and Spanish really living in the region I live in. Everybody speaks Spanish but Catalan is spoken by the local people, politics and all that....
I didn't get taught grammar at school. It wasn't until I learn't German that I began to understand that the rest of the world uses grammar
I'm British, whatever that means these days.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I get everything you're saying about the grammar. I know a lot of vocabulary in several languages, but grammar and verb conjugation is truly my Waterloo.

 

[dalasgalas]

My birds get layer pellets in the morning and about three days a week the rinds of watermelon that is cut away from the meat. About every other week they get a cantaloupe halved to peck at all day.

Sometimes when I am feeling extra generous they get grapes. They would cut you for a grape.

Sometimes I buy scratch, but that is a treat and a bag of scratch lasts a few weeks.

Oh and they are back yard free range, tons of bugs and lizards for them to devour.

 

[Clairenh]

Thank you all so much for your feedback. They have been spending a lot of time under a tree in our yard, dustbathing and eating whatever they find in the dirt. Yesterday they ventured a bit further afield and found the blueberry bushes, but only had a couple each.

It has been over 90 degrees F here the last couple of days, so I think they like the shade and cool ground under the tree. I brought an extra waterer out to the tree for them.

They seem to love the layer feed I got from our local Agway.

 

[ShellyBlanco]

When it comes to my girls (RIRs), it's not what they CANNOT eat, it's what they WILL NOT eat. I have to chop up everything (except nice ripe cantaloupe). Spoiled rotten little crew, they are.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Don't feed your chickens anything from the Nightshade family so potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers as they carry a toxin that can kill. Avocadoes are really bad for them. You can feed them asparagus but it does make the taste of the eggs different so your call on that. Onions and rhubarb are a no no. Jalapenos are fine as they aren't affected by the spice.

 

[Grits&Eggs]

I "feed" them everything, I just throw it into your compost pile, they will pick up what they want, the rest will provide nutrients for the compost, wouldn't recommend this route as composting seems to take the majority of my time :-( but it is an option!

 

[gypsy767]

I feed my birds anything and everything that is unfit for human consumption, unless it's more than two colours, fuzzy enough to pet, or unidentifiable. I do not have issues with birds dropping dead or being in ill health. They free range and have layer pellets or molasses grain available at all times. A bit of a non-standard approach compared to everyone else on here, I know, but eating 'everything but the kitchen sink' is one of the reasons why I have chickens. Flock size might matter---with 50 birds, anything that might be potentially toxic gets spread over a large number instead of 3 birds able to eat at leisure.

Again, I'm not going to recommend this approach over the scientifically backed one, but I figured I'd mention it because it works for me and my flock.

I also feed mine any/everything and they pick thru it. I have a good size run and the compost pile is inside and I add table scraps/garden scraps etc daily. I have been around chickens since I could walk and I'm 75 now and never had any problems. The fokls who have bought my chickens always comment on how good they look and what good shape they are in. They always have store bought feed available inside and outside the coop. They come to the feeders and eat all during the day and when they come off the roost in the morning they go straight to the feeders and eat up then straight to the compost pile and start scratching...same thing when they come in at night. And they scratch thru that compost every day turning it into black gold for the garden. We also add leaves that have been raked up in piles and let sit for a year to the compost and they blend it right in...it's wonderful compost...! Good luck with you chicks...