What did you give your chickies today?

[ehecatl]

Do any of you have chickens that eat strawberries mine will not touch them, even if they are chopped up.

This is my first year passed with hens.

When they were young they were fussy eaters and left most of the plants alone. Now I have the strawberries sort of fenced off, but they can still reach through if they try, and they do eat some of them on the plant, and they eat them if they are from my hand. They love cherry tomates, but only if I pick them and open them for them, but will help themselves to the big tomatoes.

They take quite a toll on my small garden, but they are the most valuable element of it all so I let them have at it when it is practical. I put up temporary fences to keep the hens out of new plots, and let them free range otherwise.

 

[karlamaria]

My girls got boss, millet, a chicken roast ( yep dad buys a chicken roasted and only eats one leg) I brought it home and peeled all the meat off and my girls went nuts. Then they got roasted potatoes and at last they got Raisens . There little bells are stuffed.

 

[JERRY1952]

Our chickens like walnuts.... after the walnts are cracked open.. they will pick the walnut out and devour it....

 

[SwampChick]

Plain yogurt and I am very happy to say they ate it! I am new to raising chickens (just got 4 two-month olds 2 weeks ago). I have been giving treats everyday (strawberries, peaches, cereal, zucchini, rice n beans) and today is the first time they ate their snack!!!! They have put themselves into their coop all by themselves two nights in a row, eaten their snack today, and they all actually slept on their roosting bar last night for the first time! . I am very happy to see them getting comfortable in their new home. I wonder what I will feed them next......

 

[Kjordanov]

Celery stems, leftover wild rice (with carrots, lentils, sweet potato, flax, -it was a stir fry of the sort.)

 

[karlamaria]

My girls got boss, millet, today, yesterday they got boss ,millet, cabbage, romaine and spagetti.

 

[ehecatl]

My girls got boss, millet, a chicken roast ( yep dad buys a chicken roasted and only eats one leg) I brought it home and peeled all the meat off and my girls went nuts. Then they got roasted potatoes and at last they got Raisens . There little bells are stuffed.

Ok, it doesn't surprise me that chickens will eat cooked chicken, but doesn't something seem wrong about that?

I remember reading something about how mad cow disease in cattle, caused by "prions", got started by feeding cattle their own brains.

There might be a biological reason to avoid cannibalisim.

 

[gryeyes]

Doesn't apply to poultry, though.

Peronally, I think it's perfectly fine because chickens in the wild eat their own dead as well as any other carcass they encounter. Protein is protein, and omnivores do need animal protein in their diets.

 

[shamrockmommy]

What is BOSS?

 

[ehecatl]

Doesn't apply to poultry, though.

Peronally, I think it's perfectly fine because chickens in the wild eat their own dead as well as any other carcass they encounter. Protein is protein, and omnivores do need animal protein in their diets.

Oh, That's nice!

I guess the same "rule" applies to us humans too then!