What's YOUR chickens' favorite treat?

[silkie-mom]

Mine love their daily wheat bread, and will sit in my lap to be closest to it.
They don't care much for apples, but love mac & cheese leftovers. I haven't tried yogurt.....would that be plain yogurt?
I don't give them anything with a high salt content or lots of sugar. Did you know chickens cannot taste "sweet"?

 

[moody-chick]

My pullets love grass.Yes grass but only if i hand feed it to them.If i put it in run they just look at it like, yeah u want us to eat this.lol. but if i hand feed it they walk over each other to get it. Same way with apples. I hold it for them and they fight over who gets the bigger piece,Their a riot to watch. Their getting terribly spoiled now, when they hear my voice they run to the fence, like heres mom with a treat,,,

..Gotta luv um.

 

[Jilara]

Clarisse loves her salad! She is an absolute fiend for greens and tomatos, while the others are mostly interested because she is. (Ohmigod, Clarisse is eating something! It must be good!) They're sort of "meh..." about tomatos and a lot of the greens, if she's not eating them.

Yogurt is definitely yogurt-riot time! I feed them the "cheese style" variety, that's very thick, so they grab chunks and run away with them, to eat in peace. Then they pick yogurt off each other's bills. It's hysterical.

But the absolute favorite treat of all is stale canned cat food, that the cats have given up on because it's sat out for a couple hours. Tuna especially, but they also go nuts for (this is just so wrong) turkey and chicken variations. I head out to the run with a cat dish, and they're going nutso before I even get in the gate! Watch your hands when you put it down! It's dangerous. They're grabby little girls with their tinned cat food, and it's totally gone within 30 seconds!

 

[Chicken Love Addiction]

Is it OK to feed chickens cat food?

 

[keljonma]

Quote:
Cat food can be higher in sodium than is good for the birds on a daily basis. We don't feed it, but I've been told by my vet tech that dry must be soaked first so it doesn't swell up in the crop.

 

[keljonma]

Our flock has no picky eaters...

But their all time favorite is the pb/oats biscuits I make for our Great Pyr.

 

[Jilara]

In terms of catfood, our chickens only get irregular leftovers as a treat, maybe a teaspoon or two split between three of them, every few days, so there really isn't much to worry about. They're not getting much.

While cats can be picky, when you have three of them, they generally finish a can split between them. But sometimes it's out for a few hours, and the cats get in a finicky mood where they won't deem to eat food that's stale. Then it goes to the chickens. It would be a shame to waste the expensive cat food, too, which is generally what they leave. (Go figure why Friskies disappears instantly, but the expensive nutritionally complex stuff sits around.) It's a case of "what the cats don't eat, the chickens will." (And with great enthusiasm!)

I'm learning that cats and chickens are similar in that they both have distinct tastes, and things they like and don't like!

 

[Jilara]

Ah, I just read more carefully, too. People are talking about DRY cat food. My chickens don't get dry cat food at all. They only get the leftover tinned stuff, and usually the expensive stuff at that.

(My attitude on dry cat food is I'm also not paying for the expensive Royal Canine dry food I feed my cats, to feed it to the chickens, thank you! If the cats don't eat it now, they can eat it later, since it keeps. That stuff costs three times what chicken food does!)

 

[CathyB]

Mine just love their yogurt! They really love it when I add blueberries to it!!

 

[ChandlersChickens]

Grapes...I cut them in half and the EE will eat them out of my hand. The Leghorn waits for me to toss it to her. What a chicken.

My EE loves cooked rice but the Leghorn won't touch it.