I only have 4 chickens, 3 hens and a rooster. At the moment, based on cash spent on laying mash, my eggs are costing me $2.15 per dozen and I have a week or so of feed on hand. That is just background.
Conversation; What will/won’t your chickens eat? I am finding this very interesting.
I have access to a large nursery where we raise many veggies and a multitude of other stuff. I try to bring the biddies a “salad” about every afternoon. So, I have found that mine love lettuce (probably their favorite green), they like ripe tomatoes and green tomato vines but not green tomatoes, they don’t care for Swiss chard, New Zealand spinach, beet tops or anything in the cabbage family, and they won’t eat shelled pecans. The other day I gave them a little dab of salmon that we had left over from lunch, they fought over it. Grapes is another favorite that they go wild over.
Understand that this is all stuff that is bad or would go to waste for one reason or another. I can’t afford this kind of chow for chickens.
So, what will/won’t yours eat “;~)
Conversation; What will/won’t your chickens eat? I am finding this very interesting.
I have access to a large nursery where we raise many veggies and a multitude of other stuff. I try to bring the biddies a “salad” about every afternoon. So, I have found that mine love lettuce (probably their favorite green), they like ripe tomatoes and green tomato vines but not green tomatoes, they don’t care for Swiss chard, New Zealand spinach, beet tops or anything in the cabbage family, and they won’t eat shelled pecans. The other day I gave them a little dab of salmon that we had left over from lunch, they fought over it. Grapes is another favorite that they go wild over.
Understand that this is all stuff that is bad or would go to waste for one reason or another. I can’t afford this kind of chow for chickens.
So, what will/won’t yours eat “;~)