What WON'T your chickens eat?

[mcdze]

mine dont like carrots they usually pick around those .. and theres a few bugs they wont eat here in FL - those big yellow grasshoppers, true palmetto bugs, the large walking sticks, most 'fuzzy' caterpillars, and theres a couple of others that i guess have an odor for defenses which they avoid ..

 

[rosemarythyme]

Mine so far don't like lettuce and standard zucchini, though they'll eat other similar squashes.

 

[tis4jandb]

Mine hate cabbage! But if they see one little green grape in the treat tray, they will throw everything out and fight over it. lol They are seriously not very picky. Oh, my daughter found out they do not like beef stew, but loove chili. haha

 

[Sally PB]

Mine like beet greens, but not the beets themselves. When I first brought them Japanese Beetles, they weren't interested. The bugs moved around and after a while, one of the chickens tried it. She started liking them, and then the rest joined in.

 

[LateBirdFarms]

Peaches are my girls absolute favorite. The ripper the better. Bananas are on the bury it and forget it list, with broccoli and pumpkin seeds. The innards are fine, but they pick the seeds out.

 

[RebelEgger]

My girls have refused carrots, bananas and cellar bugs!
I offered them squash guts and seeds for the first time on Thanksgiving Day (Monday, we're in Canada) and Genevieve thought that was the BOMB! She went crazy for those! So cute.

 

[nuthatched]

mine dont like carrots they usually pick around those .. and theres a few bugs they wont eat here in FL - those big yellow grasshoppers, true palmetto bugs, the large walking sticks, most 'fuzzy' caterpillars, and theres a couple of others that i guess have an odor for defenses which they avoid ..

Mine aren't enthusiastic about carrots, but I poke around few holes in them (for 3-4 carrots) and microwave them for a few minutes, they soften up like a sweet potato, they love them then!

 

[kelzey]

my girls haven’t tried a whole lot of stuff yet because they are still pretty young, but one of my girls will literally eat anything and everything- we call her gobble guts. mainly because of her intense appetite and how she will steal all the treats that she can! doesn’t help that she’s top hen. automatically assumes that everything belongs to her. but my other two won’t eat half of what she does. forgot to add that broccoli is one thing that neither of them will eat, but my 5 week old chicks LOVE it when i tried them with it.

 

[CatsandCrops]

Cucumbers! Like why?! Why do you hate cucumbers so much?? We had at least 4 or 5 volunteer plants pop up in our one garden this year that I marked as "chicken treats", which backfired, so now we have entirely too many pickles lol

 

[3KillerBs]

Nothing I've ever discovered, though cucumber peelings are low on their list.