What WON'T your chickens eat?

[Cathy Roberts]

Our younger chickens refuse to eat sunflower seeds.

 

[angelinagreena]

Bananas! But they absolutely love blueberries. It’s the first thing that goes.

 

[Eelantha]

For some reason I can't understand, my chickens eat pretty much anything except earthworms. I've been trying (and miserably failing) to get them to eat earthworms all summer long, but as soon as I drop one wiggly invertebrate on the coop floor they all give it a wide berth...

 

[HenneryTheEighth]

Mine refuse earthworms as well! Wow!

 

[RubelliteRose]

Mine love cabbage, cucumber, cantaloupe, blueberries, beautyberries and wild strawberries (the regular strawberries are mine ). They refuse to eat any herbs - basil, oregano, sage, mint, thyme, dill. I even grew extra herbs just for them.

 

[HenneryTheEighth]

How about comfrey? We grew it especially for them and They refused to eat it. Mint was a hit. And my hostas.

 

[Eelantha]

Yesterday i went out to give my hens some bread for treats. While doing that I spotted one of my hens who seems to like bread less and less. She runs after the morsels I throw into the pen, but once she has her morsel she nibbles it in a corner several times before abandoning it. The others all tore into the bread in a dinosaur frenzy, except for her. Maybe her taste buds are changing with her molt?

 

[BDutch]

I'm no longer surprised with what chickens will eat, mine have eaten (with great relish) the usual oddities, lizards, bees, drywall, Styrofoam etc... now, I'm surprised with ......
What won't your chickens eat?

I was really flabbergasted with so may different answers from all of you.

My chickens love strawberries and all other sweet fruits. They don't like most raw green veggies. But do like tomato and peppers.
And they really like grasses and many kind of herbs and some flowers as wel.

 

[Chickenupho]

Mine love cabbage, cucumber, cantaloupe, blueberries, beautyberries and wild strawberries (the regular strawberries are mine ). They refuse to eat any herbs - basil, oregano, sage, mint, thyme, dill. I even grew extra herbs just for them.

LOL mine went through my potted herbs and dug them out but never ate them ;-;

 

[CatSeg57]

Mine won't eat spinach. They really love pumpkin, blueberries and well, almost anything else. Sounds like my husband ,bahhhhhhaaaaaa.