So what's your chickens favorite...yet weird treat?

[crosbygroup]

Anything I'm eating. They are feathered beggars. The other day I threw them some cheese, but nooooo they wanted the burrito on my plate. I had to stand up and walk away before they would bother with the cheese.

 

[FF]

frogs, lizards, a SNAKE, a mouse, and whenever I cut myself and don't know I am bleeding they stick their beak there and get blood all over it and I think theirs something wrong with them so I get peroxcide and sterile towels and wipe it down to find a nice clean shiny beak and then a blood soaked shirt sleeve and a numb arm

 

[edselpdx]

pumpkins. wet cat food. whole cobs of corn last summer.
Mine beg for PB&J crusts from DD's lunch, too!
And of course, they LOOOOOOVE chicken.

 

[JenEric Farms]

Cheese Balls and fresh green beans (but only if i have cut them up for them first). Bah! The little princesses!

 

[Tala]

Mine like those big green tomato horn worms --- and I like feeding them!!

 

[chicken boy sam]

Mine like apple too! At first they didn't, but now they do! They also like okra...

 

[Year of the Rooster]

I don't know if these would count as weird but.... Turnips, broccoli flowers, salmon, and they ate a frog and mouse once

The frog was alive when they caught it but the mouse had been dead for a while

 

[ready2sail]

Looking through the replies, I guess it's not all that uncommon. However it sure surprised me! I have 10 pullets 10-15 weeks old, 2 just started laying. #1 in the pecking order caught a baby mouse not 3 feet from me inside the coop. You would have thought I'd thrown a lamb into a pride of hungry lions to see the commotion that ensued for the next 15 minutes. In seconds, she beat that mouse senseless with head shakes to the ground, and then started the game of Keep-Away from all the other girls (and me). Amazing to watch! The rest of the flock wanted it real bad and she lead them a merry chase for quite a while. Everyone got in the act, even #7, who managed to steal it and hold it the longest before it was stolen again by #2. She was evidently able to swallow it after leading the chase for a few more minutes. I had no idea they could get something that large down their skinny throats/necks. I've only had my flock a month now, so I logged on to see if this was normal. I knew they ate bugs and can even be canabalistic at times, but I had no idea they were such good hunters, and evidently considered mice a delicacy. My dogs, a mutt mouser and a rat terrier were outside the coop going nuts the whole time. Neither of them have managed to catch, let alone dispatch a mouse yet. Maybe they learned from watching.

 

[fishermans wife]

absolute favorite is Kraft macaroni and cheese . Funniest - one of those prehistoric looking potato bugs. I hate 'em! They love 'em!

Oh yeah, and if I am in the mood to lose a finger - mealworms do the trick!

 

[lilblessings5]

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oh yuck! lol