What have you done for your chickens today?

[parisplus3]

Swept the snow from their run, for some reason they act like they will melt if they touch it! They got homemade sprouts as a treat tonight. They just LOVE sprouts. yum yum

 

[fl_deb]

A small whole head of cabbage hung in their run. It is so funny watching their Ali style moves during the day.

 

[draye]

Mine got some wild bird seed today. This is their usual Saturday treat.

 

[HHandbasket]

They were treated to warm oatmeal with plain yogurt this morning & will be getting scratch this afternoon.

In return, I'm kinda hopin' they treat me to some yummy eggs.

 

[chickiedoo]

I havent given them anything yet today but yesterday morning I gave them some overripe bananas. I just did one slice in each lengthwise and pushed the banana up a bit. I thought they would just eat the regular edible part of the banana but now I cant even find the peels. How on earth did they eat the peel?

 

[draye]

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First animal that I ever heard of eating a banana peel. I have seen goat turn them down and goats eat anything and I mean anything.

 

[Lostbody]

I took my que from GreenSearcher and cleared out the back of the freezer... Made a sort of casserole with shreaded carrots and mystery squash, left over ginger/coconut soup, home-made buckwheat/molasses bread crumbs, burnt pizza crust and lots of shriveled chili peppers from the yard. It looked disgusting, but smelled really good, and the birds were in heaven!

And my neighbor brought over a bag of cat food for them. I guess she read something about birds needing a protein boost in winter. Not that we really have winter here in California.

 

[chickiedoo]

First animal that I ever heard of eating a banana peel. I have seen goat turn them down and goats eat anything and I mean anything.

I know! I went out there last night to take the peels out and check on the girls and the peels were nowhere to be found. Yucky banana peel. Oh well whatever if they want to eat em then good for them haha.​

 

[fl_deb]

Actually, my mother who was way ahead of today's "eat this, its good for you bandwagon" used to eat the white part that stuck to the peel, saying that it was a concentrated source of something or other that was good for us people, so maybe they needed that stuff.

 

[draye]

Mine (some of them anyway) recieved table scraps from breakfast, most all of them got crushed baked eggshell for their intake of Calcium.