Get it wrong, and it can lead to reduced egg production, deformed eggs, feather picking and other unwanted behaviour.
So, let’s gets straight into all you need to know about feeding chickens.
Friday, February 19, 2021
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When it comes to scraps, our hens seem to love chips (fries in Americanese) and leftover curry. I make curry using a cook in sauce so, having read the article, I'm a little worried that it might be too salty. But they seem to absolutely love curry and peck the dish absolutely clean. My experience of hens is that they seem to know what to eat and what to leave alone. They peck experimentally at stuff and if they don't like it they remember and won't touch it the next time.
ReplyDeleteMy birds love tomatoes. I can take leftover salad out to them and they'll attack the tomato in it before they even start on the greens.
DeleteYes, tomatoes, cucumbers courgettes, marrows. Leftover pasta they love, I feel bad because it has egg in it and it seems like cannibalism, but the buggers will eat eggs if they get broken so what the hell?
DeleteHaving late relatives growing up near the Atlantic ocean, recall hearing oyster shells were preferred to let the Henson peck on as a source of calcium for the egg shells. Have always wondered about that.
ReplyDeleteI always gave my flock a separate source of crushed oyster shell. But you haven't seen anything until you dump 5 pounds of crawfish heads into their run. Between the bits of meat and the carapaces it's a massacre.
DeleteChickens are omnivores, don't leave out the fat scraps, bones (mine prefer pork). They won't eat what they don't want or like, mine do not eat raw onion but love orange and lemon peels.
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