what are good table foods to feed my chickens ?

[sweetchick222]

i love to walk out to my coop and suprise my girls with treats. they all run to the door to greet me ! i mostly treat them with greens. what eles should or can i give them that is not only good for them, but something you have found with your peeps, that they may really LOVE ! just wondering ........thanks so much !

 

[KimberlyJ]

Mine love oats...on cold days I cook the oatmeal and add Craisins. Then I take mine and go out and eat breakfast with my girls. They also love raisins, corn, hot rice and cooked pasta. Oh and shredded cheese. Tomorrow they will be dining on Friendly's leftovers! Oh they like Chili's leftover too

I hear chickens don't handle salt very well so I do limit their french fry intake!

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

I feed mine a little bit of everything as long as it isn't salty... I have been giving them a little bit of leftover turkey everyday and their egg production has picked up.. I am thinking of cooking one just for them now!!

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

I have fed a variety of things, including veeeeery small amounts of leftover movie popcorn.

They love my cooking failures . They are enthusiastic about cooked meat, sometimes to their chagrin . They gobbled up leftover turkey .

I keep a list of things they like .

 

[maizey]

sardines...they riot for sardines...and they can HAVE THEM

 

[maizey]

oh, and panattone that didn't rise AGAIN

 

[PortageGirl]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart

 

[Terri O]

my chickens get everything that is left over from the house. I have had a "chicken bucket" on my counter for 25 years and everyone knows that all plate scraps get tossed in there. When I clean the refrigerator the science experiments even go in. I cook at a retirement home and all the veggie scraps and plate scrapings come home from there too. The only thing I dont feed them is avocado peels or pits...I heard they were poisonous. At least they are to my parrots!
They seem to enjoy everything they can get their beaks on so I feed it to them. I have heard folks say that onions and other strong flavored foods can give the eggs an off taste--I have not found that to be true though.
I will check that list in the previous post...I wont change the way I feed my birds; but it is probably interesting! Terri O

 

[mulewagon]

The only thing I've found that they don't eat is citrus. And they're not too keen on celery, but they'll eat it eventually. Everything else disappears right down the hatch!

I don't worry about the health aspects - if they were eating only pork chops, or something, that would be bad! But they eat plenty of layer feed, BOSS, and scratch grains, and the human food is only a small part.

 

[sweetchick222]

Ohhh goodness. Everyone !! Thank you so much for the very helpful post !! You all are so kind to help me !! I just wanted to make sure I don't feed my girls anything I shouldn't. Now I will try much more "treats"! Thanks again everyone !!