Share Your favorite healthy chicken treats!

[Patricia Jane]

Top favorites are, cooked oatmeal, kale, watermelon, scrambled egg, crickets, and meal worms.

 

[southerndesert]

Any healthy treat is good as long as given in moderation!

No more than 10% of their diet....

 

[urban-chick-mom]

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I am envious that you can afford to give your chicks tomatoes from your garden. Here in the Beautiful Pacific NW where we do not have enough sunshine to ripen our tomatoes I can't afford to give them any of mine. I have to keep what ripens for me. I did grow by accident shell peas. I thought I was growing sugar snap peas. So, the girls are getting to eat fresh peas from the garden everyday. They love them! I think I will do that on purpose next year for them to enjoy.

 

[my peeps and me]

When you give your chickens melons do you give them the rind to or just the flesh

 

[kareninthesun]

I leave the rind on, just cut it and stand back. I found something they didn't like: carrot salad. Gave them some I made for dinner. Simple: graded carrots w/raisins, pineapple and plain yogurt. Think it was the fresh pineapple. Not a citrus fruit, but high in acid.

 

[Amethyste]

They love the whole thing...mine will eat the entire melon, rind and all.

 

[BarredRock971]

Mine love zucchini, watermelon, peas, lettuce, strawberries, and stuff like that.

 

[Gen9]

pretty much any fruit and vegetable scraps from the kitchen, unless they can't eat it (like onions) then it goes straight to the compost pile.
Mealworms, bananas, grass and bad tomatoes from my garden. Mine refuse to eat zucchini, I'll try and cook it next time.

 

[Jesseschickens]

TOMATOES,WATERMELON, and Spagettie are my girls favorite


in the summer time once or twice i will share a freezer pop with them... blue is there favorite!!!

 

[sunnysongbird]

chickens make the best food composters for sure! This summer I got my first ripe cherry, it was juicy looking and ruby red. So I picked it and washed it, and I was just about to eat it when my hungry silkie roo comes up to me and snatches the cherry and takes a bite out of it. So, I gave him the rest. So much for my yummy cherry! They eat anything they can lay a claw on!