What Did You Get Your Chickens For Christmas?

[mississippifarmboy]

My sister's green bean cassarole.



Now my chickens hate me!

 

[drumstick diva]

So that's how you get rid of fruitcakes - great idea!

 

[drumstick diva]

Black Bart is it legal to give poultry firewater (stale beer)? Did you end up with 'tipsy' chickens

 

[NonnasBabies]

I didn't get anything specifically for them but I came home from work Christmas morning with a huge bag full of rolls and the carcasses from 3 fried turkeys!! They feasted for a while!!

 

[elizabethbinary]

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My girls have eaten chicken scraps many times. I just NEVER tell them what it really is. "Enjoy the feathered pork, girls, it's the other other white meat.'

Frankly, I think chickens will eat basically anything organic that doesn't try to eat them first. And some inorganic stuff, too. Both my ducks and chickens managed to pull the outer covering off of their insulated coops and expose the foam insulation -- they found that delicious, apparently. The ducks did it first, and I was sure they would all die, but they seemed to suffer no ill effects, so I wasn't quite as freaked when the chickens did the same thing. And, yes, my carpentry skills do leave a lot to be desired.

I caught my Muscovy digging into a very delicious styrofoam cooler the other day...

 

[chicken boy sam]

A flock block and some lettuce and corn... YUM!

 

[BlackBart]

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It was maybe a total of a 1/4 cup of stale beer in enough porridge to feed 120 chickens. No tipsy chickens.

I knew this guy that fed his chickens and pigs leftover hops etc. from a brewery. They never got tipsy.

 

[Morgan7782]

My girls got some mashed taters and yummy christmas ham, they LOVE both those things and were really enjoying christmas lol.

 

[CMV]

My birds didn't know if they were being punished or rewarded. X-mas eve involved a night time visit with lots of maintenance for the flocks, including applying saddles and pinless peepers. After that they were like, "What have we done to deserve this? Our flock mistress is a cruel woman!"

But, then I followed it up with a day of culinary surprises that appeased even the most picky birds- strawberries, melon rinds, shrimp parts, ham, turkey parts, scrambled eggs, bits of homemade bread, bits of homemade donuts, grapes, veggies parts, BOSS, and even some "Reindeer Food" (shhh...don't tell little Miss V!). After about the third trip to the coop I was forgiven for my transgressions on X-mas eve. Their crops were so full a few of them looked as though may have fallen onto their faces at any moment from the sheer weight.

Then this morning I was feeding and watering them and I got the hairy eyeball from several birds. I swear they were saying, "What? This is it? You're kidding, right? Where's the rest of the good food?"

Ingrates.

 

[Morgan7782]

LOL at above!!! Can totally see them waiting for the 12 days of christmas treats to continue haha