What are your chickens favorite snacks?

[KaylorFarms]

Oh geez, what DON'T mine like! I grow grapes, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cantaloupe, watermelon, tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, and lettuce just for them. They really love pumpkins after they freeze over the winter and are mushy in the spring. They also go crazy for bread, popcorn, donuts and MY FLOWERS!

Haha! Mine like all of that too! They also love my garden.

 

[Chickens#2017]

Cicadas go over well LOL. And the kids catch them for FREE LOL

 

[addyor]

I want our current chickens to eat earwigs!

please tell me if they will ! we have a lot of earwigs around where I live

 

[barred2rock]

My five Barred Rocks go nuts for wild bird seed and pea sprouts. Oddly they couldn't care less for dried meal worms.

 

[firestomp]

Mine loves black oil sunflower seed, cast out shelled nuts (those not at people grade haha) and extra quail eggs. I toss them in the air and they run to the first one, It's like a football game as the others chase the winner of it. Then I toss out more and it's a free for all. Actually, chickens will eat or peck at nearly anything, dead animals included. Baby field mice haven't got a chance, sorry for the mental image, but it's fact.

 

[firestomp]

My five Barred Rocks go nuts for wild bird seed and pea sprouts. Oddly they couldn't care less for dried meal worms.

Mine love them, I buy them 10 lds. at a time off ebay, there is a great seller of them, no junk at all, for my quail and birds. They are only given as treats and a protein boost.

 

[barred2rock]

Does anyone have a bug zapper and feed their birds the zapped bugs? Would their be any risk in doing so?

 

[summerb123]

well bread and cornbread!
I ask the chicks if they want some cornbread and they go bonkers!

 

[KaylorFarms]

Mine go nuts for corn on the cob!!

 

[firestomp]

Does anyone have a bug zapper and feed their birds the zapped bugs? Would their be any risk in doing so?

no risk at all, it's just an electric field, no chemicals, they will be a little dry after haha