Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

Carrots have not been popular with most chickens I've known unless they are cooked.

My bantams love the carrot greens (leaves) and will only eat raw carrots if they have been chopped into small pieces.

 

[Shadrach]

Due to technical difficulties (I left my camera at someomes house) there now follows an illustration of just how inept Shadrach is with the camera on his phone.

 

[Shadrach]

My bantams love the carrot greens (leaves) and will only eat raw carrots if they have been chopped into small pieces.

Are they Vegans?
Chopping veg up small often helps. I would have to have mashed them and dyed them another colour to get the tribes to eat them raw.

 

[Sortacountrychicken]

Due to technical difficulties (I left my camera at someomes house) there now follows an illustration of just how inept Shadrach is with the camera on his phone.
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I don't know these look pretty good to me. Of course here is the picture I got today of pile of dust bathing hens. That's Magpie on the left there. Needless to say I'm not the best photographer.

Thought I'd add that I'd probably have to starve these chickens to get them to even look at raw carrot. Or raw green beans for that matter. They love both when cooked.

 

[Sally PB]

A neighbor saves some of her kitchen scraps for me for my chickens. Recently it's been carrot peels, and my birds like them quite well.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Due to technical difficulties (I left my camera at someomes house) there now follows an illustration of just how inept Shadrach is with the camera on his phone.
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Think your did great with the phone. Don't sell yourself as not good with it.

 

[ManueB]

My ex-batts will file a (very loud) complaint to the hotel manager when I try to make them eat the green leaves on top of the carrots!! The carrots themselves I've never tried, our neighbours have donkeys so they get it all.

I'm pulling out the last romanescoes broccolies from the garden and the ex-batts are splurging on them (whereas they won't touch it in the summer). I do both shredded and whole plant and they enjoy both.

Funny thing : when I first gave some romanesco leaves to the bantams in their pen they didn't even understand it was food. But after seeing for a while the ex batts fighting to get a snap at the plants they began going crazy for it too. They want to do everything like the bigs but they are still rejected .

Leeks I have seen on the forbidden list of ingredients for hens. Not sure about it... but I never tried.

 

[ManueB]

Off subject question : I'm a total ignorant about roosters and I'm discovering things now that I have a backyard mix bantam cockerel (since end of November). Théo is growing up , I have no clue what age he is. He is beginning to make all kind of new sounds that I've never heard my hens make, other sounds than crowing I mean.

One in particular is intriguing me : it sounds like something between a bark, and a growl. It's very brief and urgent. I am wondering if this is some kind of alarm (he does make my hen's usual alarm sounds also) or agression. Can any of you shed light on this ?

 

[Perris]

One in particular is intriguing me : it sounds like something between a bark, and a growl. It's very brief and urgent.

almost like a honk? if so, mine make it occasionally too but I've not yet been able to work out what it means, so would also be very interested to hear what it is if anyone knows.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Mine like the feathery green carrot tops, so I grow them out from the top of the carrot for them.
I am willing to modify my life for the sake of my princesses, but I refuse to give up eating carrots personally. So that is the best we have managed to figure out so far.
We have completely failed to come to an accommodation on the topic of leeks which I also refuse to give up and which they despise.

Regarding leeks. I have one word for you RC : Compost.

Once all those bits they turn their beaks up at decompose they can have fun turning the compost heap over looking for worms.