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Okay, I have a chicken eating question: I have a GIANT willow tree in my backyard that the girls get to go and play under on a regular basis. The leaves are turning yellow and are falling onto the lawn below.....my chickens love eating them. I watch them out in the yard just "hoovering" (sucking) those leaves down every day when I let them out. How does a chicken digest an entire leaf? Is there any food value? funny stuff they eat.....oh....and I found them eating a piece of styrofoam that blew out of the shed the other day....Now I know that has no food value.
I have 2 willows in my back yard. There is nothing quite as funny as watching the girls jump to get the willow leaves. I don't know if there is any food value in the leaves, but I know that they ate most of the leaves when I trimmed the willow up to put the cover over the run. They also seem to have to pick at the plastic ground cover that sticks up in places. I am still not sure why it was put down in that corner of the yard, but it doesn't come up very easily. Some of the cover was exposed when DH finally got the bamboo dug up and moved out of the run. The crazy birds also ate a lot of hard foam insulation, before I was able to get it covered up. I think that chickens are two legged garbage disposals.
I wish that the finches would eat more variety though. So far they will only eat things if they are seeds or green. I try to feed them strawberries and bananas, but they are sure I am trying to kill them. On the other hand they live for the spinach and other greens I give them.
Okay, I have a chicken eating question: I have a GIANT willow tree in my backyard that the girls get to go and play under on a regular basis. The leaves are turning yellow and are falling onto the lawn below.....my chickens love eating them. I watch them out in the yard just "hoovering" (sucking) those leaves down every day when I let them out. How does a chicken digest an entire leaf? Is there any food value? funny stuff they eat.....oh....and I found them eating a piece of styrofoam that blew out of the shed the other day....Now I know that has no food value.
I have 2 willows in my back yard. There is nothing quite as funny as watching the girls jump to get the willow leaves. I don't know if there is any food value in the leaves, but I know that they ate most of the leaves when I trimmed the willow up to put the cover over the run. They also seem to have to pick at the plastic ground cover that sticks up in places. I am still not sure why it was put down in that corner of the yard, but it doesn't come up very easily. Some of the cover was exposed when DH finally got the bamboo dug up and moved out of the run. The crazy birds also ate a lot of hard foam insulation, before I was able to get it covered up. I think that chickens are two legged garbage disposals.
I wish that the finches would eat more variety though. So far they will only eat things if they are seeds or green. I try to feed them strawberries and bananas, but they are sure I am trying to kill them. On the other hand they live for the spinach and other greens I give them.
