What treat did your chickies get today?

[Mingming]

I love this thread

My babies had yogurt and grapes for breakfast, and a few of the first asparagus from the garden after dinner - and as many worms from the garden as my 2 year old can find (today it was 2 for 6 chickens).

 

[texasgurl]

My babies had mixed frozen fruit that I defrosted. Boy, one would get a huge blackberry and play keep-a-way while the other chicks chased her! Very fun to watch! They also got a muffin in their treat ball. I'm thinking of keeping the berries frozen and just breaking them up a bit for when the Texas heat arrives. : )

 

[Lute]

Today my chickens got broccolli! They love greens.

Tomorrow I'll give them a "meal" of diced livers and bean sprouts.

I'm starting to feel bad though, I don't give my ducks treats at all.

Tomorrow I'll see if they like Bananas.

My work place has a TON of ripe bananas and since no one eats ripe bananas they saved them for me for my ducks.

 

[SmokinChick]

Just finished deboning the Easter lamb. Took the bone straight to the run. ATTACK of the chickens! Too funny.

 

[Lute]

Gave the chicks some kitchen scraps of asparagus stalks, strawberry tops and bananas slices.

The ducks got some lettuce (finally a treat they like!) and bean sprouts.

 

[leight54]

Mine have been eating Maple tree "helicopters", especially now that they've started sprouting. Much easier than trying to peck the seed out. I have piles of them under the trees - when I see them start to sprout, I toss in a double handful.

I love giving them things that would otherwise be considered waste. Or bad - like when I rake up the dried crabgrass areas. It's full of seeds, so I don't want to put it on the compost or garden, but it turns out chickens LOVE crabgrass seeds! It's a two-fer! feeds the chickens AND keeps much (I wish all) of the crabgrass out of my lawn. I even bagged up some, so I can give it to them later.

 

[mondotomhead]

Every morning I give my Chickens a big bowl of a combination of canned corn, canned mixed vegetables, Boss, rice, oatmeal and scratch along with grapes, bread and one hotdog chopped up.

They don't seem to really eat chicken pellets. I wonder why

 

[M.sue]

Bananas and spinach!

 

[Lute]

More Banana slices this morning. They loved them.

I'll be giving them the rest of the banana slices tomorrow.

 

[ci_cyfarth]

Tomato! My roommate made some red beans and rice and left a perfectly good slice unattended. I diced it up and handfed them.

Happy chickens!