zucchini

[stcroixusvi]

I chopped up some summer squash that got too big to eat, and the chicks loved it! Next, I'll try zucchini.....thanks!

As for cantaloupe, mine love the fleshy insides. One of them grabbed a huge hunk and ran around with it for a while, then swallowed it whole. I worried about an impacted crop! But all is ok!

 

[luvinmychickens]

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On the chicken treat list, it said that they may not have a taste for it, but we decided to try it anyways.

I cut it into two, and they started at the seeds first. Then they started to eat the green and the outside. It's funny to watch. Once one of them get a seed, they run away from the others so she doesn't have to share, lol

 

[sgtmom52]

I cut the really large zucchini into big chunks then freeze it before giving it to the girls as a cool treat. They love it!

 

[gale65]

The chicken treat list was made by a member and not completely accurate. There have been issues also with it saying that feeding scratch raises their body temp and there have been several heated conversations on that due to people seeing that list and wondering about it on the board and then being told (not always in a kind way) that it's a myth.

We always get too much zucchini so I'll be sure to give some to the chickens when we get some. DH always gets the garden planted late (he's a crop farmer and pretty busy with the cash crops in the spring) so ours is just getting tiny zucchinis on right now.

 

[Alethea]

No one told our chicks that they don't like zucchini. They think it's nature's perfect food.

 

[pinkwindsong]

my chicks love zucchini as well on thing I do for them for fun is cut in half, then string it up so the open end is just above head height, (so they have to stretch a little..). from the solid end, they love to peck the center out of the zuc's and it spins and bounces back and forth between them for a good game...

this will be a reg for them this winter when they need games to play during bad weather when they have to stay in more..

any other game foods let me know Im trying to get it figured out before winter so I know what works and what doesn't,, they say happy hens make the best and lay the best.. good food and games Im hoping for a great fall & winter...

blessings )O(
Pink

 

[luvinmychickens]

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Oh, sorry, I just went back and looked at the chart. It said yellow squash wasn't a favorite.... Little mistake

 

[ShanCarl1971]

Mine don't care for either one if I give them in chunks or slices, but I chop them into tiny bits in my food processor and it's ON!! I use both the yellow squash and zucchini. We garden, so they also get Swiss Chard chopped up with it sometimes. (I give them the stuff that gets too big to use) Good, rich, nutricious foods, that would have been wasted otherwise ........ what a RUSH!! LOL

 

[hannakat]

HA!!! Thank you! I haven't tried zucchini but it's on the menu now! Just recently had to pen my girls because of a preditor so it's back to chopping greens like I do in the winter.

They LOVE cucumber, lettuce, kale, beat greens, watermelon, grapes, celery leaves, and on and on. Pumpkins make great toys too. Now to add the zucchini!

 

[luvinmychickens]

We are starting to give them the zucchini that is too big. They LOVE it!