Oh man! My chickens LOVE tomatoes!!!!!!!!!! Look out! Ans strawberries, too!
Greyfields, I have a funny story for you about grapes. When my chickens were just about 8-9 mo old I was feeding them grapes in the evening just before dusk. They were gobbling them up! I could not bite them in half fast enough and drop them on the ground for them. Well, my barred rock got ahold of a whole one and swallowed it. She seemed ok, so no big deal, right? A bit later they are all roosting and I poke my head in to say goodnight and I notice Licorice, the barred rock, is foaming at the mouth on her perch. Naturally these being my first chickens ever (and raising them from day-olds constitutes them as being my "babies")--I freaked!! Oh my gods! She's choking...she has rabies..she's gonna die! I grab her and sprint across the hay field to my neighbor's house (who has chickens) and show her to her. Ahhhhh! I'm still freaking. Is she gonna DIE????Neighbor notices the lump in her neck and starts feeling it. Something is in there....it's moving around....it's squishy. More foam squirts from Licorice's mouth. We massage her throat a little. Then I suddenly remembered the GRAPE!! That beast of a hen ate a whole grape!! So, I put Licorice down on the ground and she's all wobbly. I'm thinking that this is it. She's gonna keel over and die on me! I'm in tears!!
And what happened next, I swear was like a scene from a cartoon!! Licorice makes an audible sound that sounded ALOT like a loud swallowing noise and the lump dissappears!! Then she steadies herself, gives a good shakes of her feathers and starts pecking the ground as if nothing had happened.
I stood there dumbfounded! It was hysterical!!!! She finally swallowed the darn grape!!
Still to this day....she is the character of the group!
