What WON'T your chickens eat?

[HenneryTheEighth]

Mine won’t eat cabbage, raw broccoli, or lettuce. Strawberries tops are okay, but not the berries! Over ripe blueberries and over ripe bananas are a no as well.

 

[AntiqueB]

Mine will eat large cucumbers but small salad cucumbers are not as preferred. Also spray foam is sometimes consumed. They will not eat fresh corn, huge nope! Cracked corn is appreciated, however.

Mine go crazy for baby cukes, but aren't as happy with large ones!

 

[Kevin_87]

Mine will not eat Bell Peppers. They do eat hot peppers. Their favorite food is fish sticks cooked then cooled.

 

[Trisseh]

I offered mine yogurt once, because I had a couple of the chicks from the brooder that just loved it, and my Icelandic cockerel took one look at the little dish, made an alarm call, and ran for the hills. Meanwhile, there’s my hedemora with yogurt all over her face, feet and her friends... lol.

 

[CluckerFamily]

Mine will not eat Bell Peppers. They do eat hot peppers. Their favorite food is fish sticks cooked then cooled.

All I thought about were the commercials of chickens saying "eat beef", you could start a new commercials with your chickens saying "eat fish".

 

[Kevin_87]

All I thought about were the commercials of chickens saying "eat beef", you could start a new commercials with your chickens saying "eat fish".

Too bad Long John Silvers is gone.

 

[City Farmer Jim]

Our girls won't eat lettuce or cabbage not sure if it is because they are GMO or the just don't like leafy veggies...we haven't tried any type of squash...I'm going to try pumpkin wish us luck

 

[Jhobbs33]

The only fruit and veggies my chickens haven't eaten is asparagus, and green peppers.

 

[Dragonfly Farm]

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 they refuse to eat!
Blueberries
Strawberries
Spinach
Green grapes (but red or purple are ok)
Bell peppers
And various other things I would consider to be A+ chicken chow.
They just stand in it and look disgusted.
What won't your chickens eat?

I have to make smoothies for my scissor beak hen, Beakie. I use leftover veg-broccoli stems, carrots, apple, raisins, yogurt, layer crumbles, blueberries, meal worms. I whiz the whole mess in the Cuisinart with hot water. Sometimes I add some vegetarian canned dog food. She inhales it. Any ideas what else I could put in the mix? I’m thinking that I’ll make her a bib from a used surgical mask as she is quite messy and has to have a shower and a blow dry a couple of times a week.

 

[RebeccaRN]

Many veggies i shred for them with the cheese grater and they eat them all. I cooked an acorn squash cut in half and they picked it clean. Loved the guts and seeds also. They don't like bananas or strawberries tho