Treats that are NOT treats

[Fancychooklady]

Quinoa is great for chickens. If you are trying to raise the protein levels in your feed just add a scoop of quinoa. I give mine a tin of generic sardines in olive oil once a week. They will knock you over for it. High in Omega 3 and the olive oil makes them glisten.
I add 2 kilo of hulled oats to every 20 kilo bag of mixed grain. None of my birds have exploded. I gave mine cooked pasta with sardines and raw egg tonight.

 

[jgarreth]

My chickens LOVE plain cooked pasta....it's hilarious watching them eat it. Running around the yard with big strings of spaghetti hanging out of their beaks...funny.

 

[Champy89]

On pasta - one of my girls stumbled upon a stack of recently thrown out udon noodles we'd overcooked once. I've never seen her eat anything so fast.

The noodles being in the place they were was a once off, yet up to a month later she still runs straight off to the same spot the instant we let them out to free range, hoping there'll be more.

 

[LTygress]

My chickens got a very nice unexpected treat recently - a whole side of salmon!

It had been in the freezer for a year, which I personally won't eat. But it was double-wrapped and didn't have freezer burn. And when I thawed it out, it didn't smell bad either. But since it was beyond MY limit, I tossed it into the chicken pen....



Unfortunately, a few fights did break out over it. But they didn't last long and everyone eventually got some!



A lot of times when I'm out grocery shopping, I will pick up a flat of tuna cans to feed to them. Sometimes I get it in water, sometimes in oil. It depends on which one is more in-stock and/or on sale!

 

[TRUE5]

Does anyone know if pomagranates are ok? They are in season right now and I was debating if I want to share my stash with them. I wanted to find out if anyone knows they are alright or not. I was leaning to just give them the poms and maybe toss the fleshy stuff. What do you all think?

 

[SaltyPaws]

We just fed our 10 month old group pomegranates about a week ago and they seem fine.

 

[TRUE5]

Thank you Saltypaws! I think I will give them a little treat then! I tried giving them some tuna we had bought accidently in oil so I gave them that. I have never seen them go crazy over a treat like that before! I can say I will add tuna to the treat list!

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Don't worry about feeding soybeans to your chickens. The odds are a 100 - 1 that they won't eat a single soybean anyway. Ditto for most forms of peas.