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

[MN Chicken]

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I have 2 freckle eaters myself....man that hurts!

 

[lfoose]

Mine love white bread and hot dogs.

 

[Hillsvale]

mine like anything in general but last night I heard the 5 week old silkies... (drama queens at the best of times) in their brooder box one level down in the family room.... they made such a ruckus I had to go and see.... one of the boys had left behind some homemade mac and cheese, Simon threw it in the silkies box and one of the babies was running

for its life to escape the other two trying to "steal" its mac and cheese...

I can imagine these are the birds that will signal the 'look out' alarm...

 

[zavierchick]

Our new chicks that just moved outside and are still getting used to "the big outdoors" are under the impression that snow on top of my shoes is some type of snowcone for their pleasure, they go nuts grouped around my feet pecking the daylights out of it.

Otherwise, lots of the usual stuff - one that I remember from last summer was black pill bugs, my kids would grab bricks or rocks that had bunches of them and bang them on the top of the run to drop bugs everywhere inside - it was like chicken manna from heaven for the girls

 

[dntd]

My rooster goes nuts over apples |He'll steal them right out of your hand.

 

[homeinspectorman]

White grub worms. Unintended consequence is that the garden has gotten much larger. They love grubs so much I keep on digging just to find them. One Buff and a RIR now come running when they see me in the garden.

 

[lindseythefork]

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No, I wouldn't ever feed my chickens their own kind. Sure, if they had the chance - Cannibalism tonight!! But, really, - So would humans if not told. Plus, you gotta consider that mad cow comes from the ingestion of same-species flesh.

- And "mad cow" is not limited to cattle.

Mad cow comes from cows ingesting infected cow meat. If you feed a chicken cooked chicken, there is no way that they are going to contract anything. It's only gross to you that a chicken is eating a chicken because you are able to reason and rationalize it ("well, *I* wouldn't want to eat another human!") but to a chicken, it's really not an issue.

 

[pheonixstar15a]

I dont know if you would call this a favorite food, but when the chickens were young and my little granddaughters would pick up begger weeds on their pants from the yard, i would take them into the chicken yard and let the chickens peck them off. The chickens enjoyed it and it made me and the girls have a good laugh. I also tried feeding them tree moss, they like that also, i guess the thing they love the best is ripe tomatoes and tomato skins. Last week i gave their coop a good cleaning, scraping the dried chicken poop off the floor, i let the chickens stay in with me and they had a ball scratching along with me and finding little worms and bugs.

 

[pheonixstar15a]

Chickens can be cannibals , so i dont like to feed them any kind of meat, cooked or raw, except for fish or shrimp, they love smoked fish. I have seen chickens almost peck each other to death, i just dont want to give them any ideas, or a taste for meat.

 

[Chickiemama1010]

mine love anything they can glean from the compost pile whether it be food scraps or the bugs and worms they find in there. They particularly like raisins and grapes. They also like cat food alot. Corn cobs to pick over are also a fave. My 3.5 yr old isnt good at eating corn on the cob although he loves it. We let him give the chickens the rest of his cob to pick his leftovers. they also like Cheese. bread. apples or really any kinda fruit. But what they really love is.....

WATERMELON!!!! They will clean a half a watermelon in 2mins flat and be wet and sticky and a happy mess. I put one out into the compst one day that had been in the fridge just a bit too long and was beginning to ferment. Thught nothing of it. My flock spotted that and ate every bit of it. 25mins later or so I went outside and they were tipsy. I was slightly alarmed, but after a few mins realizing they were going to be ok, it was a bit funny to see drunken chickens. I think they remember the party melon, lol. they'll sneak up on ya and snatch a piece of watermelon outta your hand like a ninja.