What is the weirdest thing you have ever fed your chicks?

[redfeather]

My chickens get any scraps I deem safe for them from the kitchen. Leftover spaghetti, rice, bread, pizza "bones", leftovers gone bad, corn, steamed veggies that got left out overnight... I don't give them chicken though. That just feels wrong. Cows got mad cow disease from eating other cows (their brains, I know), and unfortunately many extremely low quality dog and cat foods contain the rendered carcasses of euthanized dogs and cats, which is why I feed high quality food.

It's kinda hard right now! I only have 2 chickens in the shed, one being an older roo and the other still a pullet, so I know I can't safely give them too much bread... don't want the pullet to get angelwing or something from the excess carbs... I have way too many leftovers for 2 chickens right now!


Oh, and peppers are totally fine! Birds love them -- they don't taste things the same way we do, but I know my parrots go nuts for jalapenos and cayenne powder in their food. The spicier the better. I have heard of people putting pepper flakes in their wild bird feeders to deter the squirrels and ants. The birds don't mind, but it burns the squirrels' mouthes!

 

[mychookschick]

EVERYTHING! except citrus fruits But, seriously, like EVERYTHING! Mom, is cleaning ou the fridge and hands me a huge pile of air tight containers for them. I have to spread it out over a few days because it is too much for all at once!

 

[enola]

Well . . . . I didn't like the Nutella because I thought it tasted just plain gross!

Or maybe I didn't use it right ?

How do you properly eat Nutella?

 

[Ravishaw]

One morning my wife got up and saw I was scrambling a huge pan of eggs. She just nodded and smiled thinking it was for the family. She got her little pills out and started humming a song and stopped dead as I crumpled up two large handfulls of eggshells and sprinkled them into the scrambled eggs. Then she got this offended butt-hurt look on her face and went off to our bedroom to finish taking her pills.

Another time she bought instant oatmeal, the flavored kind. She LOVES the raisin and the brown sugar/maple syrup kind. Well I mixed up four of the packets, and she smiled thinking I was going to eat them. I went outside, sat in my outside chair and let the hens hop up on my lap and eat my oatmeal. It was nice and warm. My wife... locked the back door and didn't let me in for an hour.

 

[kelseygirl707]

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I spread it on toast, or apples... or From a spoon

 

[elizabethbinary]

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I'm the one that does this in our family.

Every Tuesday the CSA box gets delivered and Tuesday the chickens KNOW it's food day. That's the day I love mostly because I am a real 50s housewife at heart and I doll up in my apron (my hens LOVE my aprons now!) and go through the fridge and first it's freshly chopped fridge leftovers and all the jars/cans/leftovers from the week as well as old fruits and vegetables. THEN! I repack the fruit and veg drawers and give them the box of chicken scraps my CSA sends me! THEN! I give them all the dead leaves that dropped to the bottom of my box. THEN I start cooking because I need to replenish stock. Usually tomato sauce or chicken stock. So then they either get a pile of steaming hot tomato leavings (I strain my sauce) or they get a giant pile of hot fresh veggies and a chook carcass.

...and then my husband throws them some Boss.


...my chickens REALLY love Tuesdays. And aprons.

 

[pringle]

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Right outa the jar,spread on toast or if you wanna get fancy get some cinnamon raisin bread spread nutella and add bananas

 

[fishnet1971]

and ice cold beer and unsalted peanuts.