What WON'T your chickens eat?

[AntiqueB]

Mine love cucumber, grapes, and lettuce. They give me the stink eye for banana and strawberries, but love strawberry yogurt.
And my BO, lowest in the pecking order, will trample the others for a rare Cheerio treat. They happily let her -- no one else will touch those! They think she's nuts for scarfing them down.

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

Fuzzy caterpillars is about the only think that moves they don’t eat. Total bummer in years where Gypsy moth caterpillars go crazy.

Other than that, about all they won’t eat are hard uncooked veggies like potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, whole carrots, asparagus, etc.

They’ll eat those things cooked to soften them up (although I don’t give them much onion).

 

[RevlisRemmah]

Mine won’t eat strawberries, bananas or apple peels

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

Mine won’t eat strawberries, bananas or apple peels

It’s so funny what some like and some don’t. Those three are some of my flocks favorites!

 

[Starburst]

My chickens LOVE green grapes, but they won't stand for the red and purple ones.
They also refuse to eat:
Strawberries
Cucumbers
Squash
Pumpkin
Lettuce
Spinach
Basically any salad greens
Carrots

The list goes on...

 

[HappyClucker7]

I'm actually shocked at how many chickens don't like strawberries. My chickens go crazy for strawberries!

 

[3KillerBs]

Other than that, about all they won’t eat are hard uncooked veggies like potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, whole carrots, asparagus, etc.

I tossed some too-sprouty-to-salvage sweetpotatoes into the pen thinking that they'd eat the sprouts and I'd pick up the potatoes in a few days. I ended up leaving them longer because of heavy rain and found that the chickens were slowly pecking into them. It took them a couple weeks but they did eat them.

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

I tossed some too-sprouty-to-salvage sweetpotatoes into the pen thinking that they'd eat the sprouts and I'd pick up the potatoes in a few days. I ended up leaving them longer because of heavy rain and found that the chickens were slowly pecking into them. It took them a couple weeks but they did eat them.

Thanks for sharing...I’ll leave them there and see if the decide they like them. If they don’t eat them they’ll become worm food...and my flock likes worms!

 

[RevlisRemmah]

It’s so funny what some like and some don’t. Those three are some of my flocks favorites!

We should have a produce swap! I’ll trade you bananas and apple peels for something your flock won’t eat!!!

 

[ladybrasa]

With much sadness and frustration -

SQUASH BUGS