Treats chickens DON'T Like

[Judy]

I have a cricket cage in my car and keep meaning to stop by the bait shop with it. They do like grasshoppers, so maybe.... have not tried worms....

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

I haven't found anything that they won't eat. I even seen them eat Brown Widow spiders! Seems to be a favorite of my RIR roo and Malard, they are constantly looking under lawn chairs and around the foundation of the house where we find them the most! Wife is VERY happy about it too! Last year we where over-run with em...this year (with the chickens) we have seen none that weren't being squished in the beaks of the chickens!(and duck)

 

[lovemychix]

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That is weird. Mine follow the tiller gobbling them up. It's great! I almost run them over they won't leave a worm anywhere.

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

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ME TOO! (keep cricket cage in car) but I get at least 500-600 a week! They all know me at the bait store.
Meal worms too!

 

[Judy]

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Now, mine patrol the house foundation daily for bugs. Used to see lots of spiders there -- no more. And they attack the yard right after I mow, for bugs. Last year we had a true invasion of some sort of tiny black beatle for a month or so; they were on one particular weed that comes up in the yard (I mow a yard, not a lawn; I don't fight the weeds, just mow them.) We still have the weed, but no beatles this year. And no more spiders in the house, either.

 

[GrannySue]

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Mine go nuts for yogurt. I am very fussy and only buy WOS, i.e. Whatever's On Sale.
I'm too cheap (frugal? economical?) to buy crushed oyster shell for calcium because in season I just go to the shore and get my own. I didn't get enough last fall so I had to supplement their diet with yogurt.

 

[rachaelc]

Mine are a bit snooty about a few things but, DH asked if we could compost our coffee grounds out to them with egg shells and other scraps? Mind you we live in a coffee drinking state so chickens may have picked up on that, or how about tea leaves or teabags?
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chicken coop will be finished this weekend!!

 

[JennsPeeps]

Bacon
Carrots
Greens (unless they're growing in my garden!)

 

[Judy]

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Lots of folks here run egg shells through a coffee grinder or whatever and offer it for calcium. Mine ignore oyster shell, and we have a high calcium (limestone) soil so I don't worry about it. Do coffee grounds or tea leaves provide calcium?

 

[rachaelc]

I don't think the coffee would actually provide any calcium but maybe caffeine? Its been a few years since I had chickens and I can't remember what i did when I scrapped food to the chickens if I threw the coffee grounds in.

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