What's the weirdest thing your chickens like to eat?

[gsim]

To tls_ranch:

You are fortunate to have olive leaves for them to eat. The oleuropein in the leaf is a potent and natural virus and microbe killer. Mediterranean olives are best, but all olive trees have some content in their leaves. We keep the extract on hand and always have a dozen or more bottles in cupboard. My wife cured her arthritis with it (most arthritis is viral or microbial infection that settles in joints) It is a narutal antifungal too. My son in law cured his toenail fungus by taking it for a week or two. It is an antiparisite too, and that is why your chooks are sooooo lucky to have it available. I would be surprised to see any internal parasite infestation in your flock.

 

[gsim]

To bornacenturytoolate:

Be glad to have a constant source of live greens for the chooks. It is vital to their health. Kudzu was always used as fodder where it came from. It was supposedly brought here to have something that would grow in poor conditions for fodder. Cattle will eat it, so no surprise that chooks do to. I has ruined some patches of forestland in the southeast USA.

 

[Big Chicken Little]

They just love tofu

 

[gsim]

Mine like pepper plant leaves, seeds, and peppers too. I give them spotted or starting to go bad peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, zuchinni, lettuce, cabbage. This time of year I break off limbs with no peppers or peppers too small to develop this late in year, and throw them in. The chooks strip the leaves off like watching time-lapse photography. I also give them strawberry leaves this time of year after berries quit. They are slower to eat those, but at end of day, those are gone too. Also, I give them fresh grass cllippings which they gobble up. Many broad leaf weeds are gobbled up too, as many as I dig/pull from shrub beds go to the chooks and they pounce on them. My chooks have had live raw greens from the very day they came in their box. I have never fed them on store-bought feed alone for even one day.

Mine do NOT get any processed food, and we eat very little of that ourselves for reasons of wanting to maintain good health. So they get all manner of raw veggie scraps and fruit scraps which they love. I have given them chicken once and they ate it. I cannot even find the bones. It was a back piece I think, with ribs, etc. I searched the pen (which is a big one) and can't find those bones.

 

[gsim]

For any of you that kill a snake, just behead it and slice and dice and throw it over the fence. It will disappear like you cannot believe.

 

[ziggywiggy]

Carpenter ants, centipedess, and scorpions. They won't touch the big red ants, but they love carpenter ants and gobble centipedes like candy.