TOP FIVE, growing extra food for your flock

[NouChickMamma]

Mine adore kale, and eat Swiss chard, and Chinese cabbage, they also helped themselves to some rhubarb leaves, they like the outer cabbage leaves, and love cooked green beans....but that's all they seem to want to eat. They aren't keen on lettuce or cucumber or tomatoes at all.

 

[SF-Tall-Girl]

This is not a thread to talk about replacing store bought feed with home grown...
This is about supplementing the feed.
Give me your top five plants that you would or do grow to give to your flock to supplement their feed.
Either as treats, to boost health or to mix in with your regular feed.
TOP FIVE... GO!

All the suggestions listed are great. I planted Tree collards to have some greens year round for the girls.

 

[akddr]

This is not a thread to talk about replacing store bought feed with home grown...
This is about supplementing the feed.
Give me your top five plants that you would or do grow to give to your flock to supplement their feed.
Either as treats, to boost health or to mix in with your regular feed.
TOP FIVE... GO!

Here’s our SE Alaska top 5
1. We grow a lot of lettuce - different varieties and the chickens will eat all of it. After it bolts and gets bitter they will still strip the leaves off of the thick stems.
2. Kale of course
3. They love picking wild blueberries when we let them out.
4. Any new grass
5. If we have extra broccoli it’s fun to hang it in the coop and they pick at it like a punching bag.

 

[CloneFly]

Cayenne Pepper, Basil, Oregano, Parsley and Weeds! They love all three and with all this rain, we have plenty of unwanted greens for them to feast upon! They seem to love it!