Watermelon

[Judy]

I usually have to hand feed new foods before they get it. I pinched off bits of watermelon to get them started, because they weren't touching the wedges. Now they eat it down to the skin. Yogurt had to go on scrambled eggs, etc. Never have gotten them eating sunflower seeds, though.

 

[jtotherow]

Mine will eat any produce that my garden produces. they love cucumbers, watermelon, squash, okra, lettuce, potatoes, fruit of just about any kind, but love grasshoppers and crickets that come from where their hay poo is stored, and fresh pulled grass.

Since my chicken have come to my home. My grass is the greenest on the whole road.

Love 'em

 

[kuntrygirl]

My chickens LOVE watermelon!!!! It's their favorite treat. They fight my barbado sheep for it. I have a solid white female sheep that loves it as well. After a few minutes of eating the watermelon and she looks up at you, it looks like she is wearing red lipstick The watermelon stains her hair. It's too funny. A kodak moment that I have to take a pic of.

 

[Mother Bird]

Feeding lots of watermelon as well as cantaloupe, and tomatoes are a favorite right now too! . They love it. Don't toss the upcoming pumpkins after the holiday either. They love those too!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Feeding lots of watermelon as well as cantaloupe, and tomatoes are a favorite right now too! . They love it. Don't toss the upcoming pumpkins after the holiday either. They love those too! 

I can't wait for pumpkin season . We have a local pumpkin patch that I get all the pumpkin that I can fit in my truck. They love it.

 

[waldeneffect]

Watermelons are quickly devoured by our flock. They only get the less than perfect ones.

Here's a blog post on some of the other things we've discovered you can feed to the girls.

http://www.avianaquamiser.com/posts/Advantages_of_free_range_chickens/

 

[icsd71]

Mine do to! All our extras from growing go to the birds.

 

[crazyfeathers]

It would be easier to list the things the girls don't like. Lol They love watermelon and tomatoes the most. I give my girls boiled potato skins, I heard it was raw potatoes that can be toxic. Chickens are the best garbage disposals ever and what do they say the percentage of food scraps are in a landfill, something like 60 percent. We are really going green eh?

 

[crazyfeathers]

Ok it's only 21 percent but it is the highest over all other garbage/waste..

 

[kuntrygirl]

Found these pics of the birds eating watermelon.