What is your chickens’ favorite scrap treat?

[Iluveggers]

I know many of us give our chickens food scraps as a treat or part of their regular feed. (Not meal worms or scratch, actual scraps from the human kitchen!) It’s been interesting to me to see what my girls go right for as soon as they see it, and what gets left til later!

My girls LOVE:
Grapes
Winter Squash
Watermelon
Cucumber
Bell pepper cores
Cooked rice
Yogurt

They pick at all greens and cherry tomatoes next. There hasn’t been any produce they haven’t eaten but they all go for the “good stuff” first! They do not love raw turnips. I will try cooking them next time lol.

 

[DonyaQuick]

My chickens' favorite leftovers so far are pumpkin bits and scraps from cooked salmon - they love the fish skin if I cut it up into little pieces for them. Both of those bring out the growling and other weird demonic sounds. Some of them really go for mushy banana. They'll all eat lettuce scraps too, but in sort of "oh well I guess I'll eat this since you didn't bring me something better" kind of way.

 

[cavemanrich]

We give all leftovers to chickens that we no longer want to eat. I do give them small amounts of bread regularly, and when we cook meat, we trim off the fat, and skin. That in turn gets cooked, and fed to my cats and chickens. You should try to give them a well carved turkey carcass. That gets picked clean to the bare bones.

I do not give anything sweet like cake. That gets thrown into trash. I also do not give anything with much salt. The meat leftovers, (table scraps) are not too salty BTW. Have been doing it this way for over 20+ years with no casualties, (food related)

 

[Isadora]

W

What is BOSS?

Black Oil Sunflower Seeds

 

[cherrynberry]

I know many of us give our chickens food scraps as a treat or part of their regular feed. (Not meal worms or scratch, actual scraps from the human kitchen!) It’s been interesting to me to see what my girls go right for as soon as they see it, and what gets left til later!

My girls LOVE:
Grapes
Winter Squash
Watermelon
Cucumber
Bell pepper cores
Cooked rice
Yogurt

They pick at all greens and cherry tomatoes next. There hasn’t been any produce they haven’t eaten but they all go for the “good stuff” first! They do not love raw turnips. I will try cooking them next time lol.

They LOVE watermelons. They only get it during summer, though.

 

[Aprilxoxo]

I threw my 6wk chicks some hot cross bun and i swear they turned into velociraptors. And when they finished their small amount they turned to me and my piece in my hand and i got scared lol

 

[GregnLety]

I know it's not scraps but one of my silkies loves the finch bird seed from tractor supply. I mix it in with 5 grain scratch and watch her pick out those little seeds.

 

[Isadora]

Probably meat scraps. Or pasta.
They hardly get any though because we're good about eating leftovers.
I don't bother throwing them things like squash peels and such since they don't eat them.

 

[picklestheduck]

Oats, kale and blueberries

 

[1Slayer]

Tonight I gave my gang chopped up shrimp shells...after making sure they were safe to feed chickens, they all went BERSERK.. the best thing they ever had...