What did you feed your chickens today?

[4luvofchickens]

Mine got thier usual layer feed, organic spinach, and a handful of birdseed with boss mixed in.

 

[brounii]

Today my girls got their usual starter feed (they are 10wks old), a handful or so of BOSS (Black Oil Sunflower Seeds), and several handfuls of clover that I plucked from our backyard.

 

[tdgill]

oh yeah, I forgot. Chickweed and dandelions! Handpicked from the front yard. And cut with scissors. lol.

 

[gail2568]

Mine 3 girls always have their 16% feed, plus today I got them some goodies in the discount bin while I was grocery shopping. They have enough Kale, Chineese cabbage, pear, apple, orange, leeks, red lettuce, and tomatoes to last them through the week-end. It only cost me $3.00 for a weeks worth of extra food. They will get left over spegetti sometime during the week and frozen peas that they just gobble right up.

Gail in Kansas

 

[hitnspit]

ok now i see people are adding boss with the food. What is boss??? but anyways my 15 birds got 4 small pumkins and man the pumkins had no chance.they will eat anything.......jim s

 

[tdgill]

pumpkins had no chance...lol. BOSS is black oil sunflower seeds. b-o-s-s

I feel very guilty about the cake. It had three eggs in it though. Flour, eggs. and it wasnt chocolate. "mom is great, give us vanilla cake!" please someone scold me over the cake!

 

[Chick named Lola]

Of course their regular crumbles, some boss/wild bird seed mix, fresh kale and sprouts.

 

[mcostas]

Mine don't seem to like boss. They are kind of slow to eat new foods, they love bugs and grass. But they have eaten all the bugs and it's chilly tonight so I gave them some canned dogfood (I'm going to get some catfood but all I had was dogfood) and they ate that (till my doggie joined them) and I scrambled an egg, which they loved.

I chopped up some meat in the past and they were lukewarm about it. I'll bet they would eat it with relish now that they are bigger. I was getting mealworms for them but they are pretty expensive here. They enjoyed some palmetto bugs a few weeks ago, when I moved the woodpile, but they are gone now too.

I am concerned that feeding them table scraps will make them not want to eat bugs, and one of the reasons I got them was to eat bugs. could this happen?

 

[BethieofVA]

Feed/water always, plus some collards, boss and a banana.

 

[tdgill]

I don't think anything will stop them from eating everything! I dont feed any salty foods and it took my flock a few days to figure out the sunflower seeds were for them to eat. Now they love them.