Mine have yet to try fish/meat, mostly because I keep thinking they can't have it for some reason lol. But they love oatmeal, suet and veggies.Some popular treats for the girls:
Bird Suet
Warm Oatmeal
Rice
Veggie Scraps
Meat Scraps (not chicken)
Dead (bait) Minnows
etc
Oh my goodness do they love meat. Whenever we eat t-bone we throw in the bones and the velociraptors get to work and pick it clean. They also love chili. Remember, they can't taste spice.
Whenever I get a oddly shaped of newly cracked egg I'll cook it up in a 'chicken omelet' for them with whatever greens I have on hand as well as a small pinch of scratch and a little fruit, depending on what I have on hand.
Makes sense about the chili! Maybe next time my family has meat (I'm vegetarian) I'll give them some!
When you say 'holiday birds' you mean turkey and not chicken, right?
Nice!
Woah! This cabbage was green unfortunately, but we usually get a purple cabbage in our CSA during the summer... maybe they'll get a purple tetherball this summer!
I'm pretty sure they can taste spice, they are just not adversely affected by it (capsaicin). My chickens love anything pepper and that tells me they like the taste better than say tomato.
they love cherries ( without pits!! one of my chickens died after eating too many cherries with pits) blueberries, apples , bell pepper seeds, meat and crushed bones, they won’t touch pineapple, bananas ,linseeds, raisins or red cabbage.. they like sunflower seeds , corn on the cob and bread ( makes them fat) so they only get a little bit of that , I have a friend who liked fishing and gives me the fish which have too many bones, I boil them and then the chickens feast on fish
