What Greens do chickens like?

[talkinboutchickens]

they might enjoy cabbage or kale.

not a vegetable, but my chickens like watermelon.

Same for mine!! I've had many unripe melons this year from my garden and I fed them to my chickens. Great treat for the summer, too, because they love drinking the juice...Very refreshing for them! My chickies also get a few raw eggs a day, because one of our hens was on meds a while ago so we can't eat any of our eggs (all of them are the same color so we can't tell who's whose egg.)

 

[puddleglumWI]

When my legbars were in the brooder I gave them dandelions out of the yard. Now that they are in the tractor they obliterate the wide leaved plants: dandelions, clover, plaintains, etc. but when I pull up a dandelion and throw it in the run they chow it down with relish

 

[The Good Grumble]

Kale is our silkies absolute favorite green!

We have chicken wire around our garden, otherwise they would mow it down.

When it get big, I pick several leaves and hold out a handful of it, and they go nuts. Otherwise, I've bound it with twine and hung it for them to pick off chunks.

Mine go crazy for kale & broccoli. Also dandelion greens.

 

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Mine go crazy for kale & broccoli. Also dandelion greens.

Is it ok? I would love to feed them kale if I could.

Somewhere on the internet I read that chicken shouldn't have kale. Was that a lie?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Is it ok? I would love to feed them kale if I could.

Somewhere on the internet I read that chicken shouldn't have kale. Was that a lie?

Can you please provide a link to where you read that? I'd love to read it in context. Sometimes there is something more there than just a simple statement.

I grow kale. My wife and I eat kale. It's not my favorite green but it's OK. My chickens usually eat kale if I offer it to them but if they have other options they might prefer those.

 

[The Good Grumble]

Is it ok? I would love to feed them kale if I could.

Somewhere on the internet I read that chicken shouldn't have kale. Was that a lie?

I’ve never read this. My birds eat it, I grow and give as treats.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/can-chickens-eat-kale-all-you-need-to-know.77103/

 

[The Good Grumble]

Can you please provide a link to where you read that? I'd love to read it in context. Sometimes there is something more there than just a simple statement.

I grow kale. My wife and I eat kale. It's not my favorite green but it's OK. My chickens usually eat kale if I offer it to them but if they have other options they might prefer those.

I posted this to @Ridgerunner

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/can-chickens-eat-kale-all-you-need-to-know.77103/

 

[Ponypoor]

Hi again, I’m just wondering what fruit and veggies chickens like to eat. Mine are being a bit picky. We’ve given them lettuce, silver beet, spinach, carrots, cucumber, apple, broccolini and sweet corn and they don’t seem to want any of it. They are sometimes interested in the cucumber and occasionally peck at the spinach, but apart from that they don’t seem interested. We have, or had, a lot of greenery in the garden, but they’ve eaten most of it so we’re trying to supply them with extra. What other greens can we try?

Mine detest broccoli.

But I give them a head of cabbage and they go bananas! Oh also they won’t eat bananas.

Right now it pumpkins. Mr Pumpkin Head didn’t last long this past week.

November 2023

They go bonkers for the seeds and guts

Even the young chicks last winter enjoyed pumpkins
December 2023

Also I give cooked leftover veggies like carrots and turnip, they especially like turnip.

 

[Crazy chicken lover 5410]

Lettes, tomatoes and they like some fruits

Hello my silkies are pure addicted to blueberries I mean they would pick them over anything else even watermelon they love watermelon too and pumpkins they'll Hollow a pumpkin out nearby overnight they free range and I swear they eat more grass than you ever seen pretty cool when they're in the coop and I'm mowing I'll stop and take handfuls of the fresh cut grass and they go crazy over that like it was a treat sorry to text your ear off

 

[Ridgerunner]

Re-read that article. Up at the top it says "There are, however, some vegetables that are poisonous to chickens." It does not say that kale is one of those. Further down it tells you that kale is great for chickens.