For those of you with pet hens, what is their FAVORITE treat?

[fistfulladirt]

A local butcher that raises hens and beef told me to put pieces of freshly cut up deer carcass outside the coop.

My birds went nuts over it.

If egg production is slow, try it, great protein boost. It will also help cure their boredom.

 

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[G.I.B.]

Cock roaches...

My sister in law lives in Trenton Fl. in an old mobile home on 5 acres. She couldn't get rid of roaches so she red-necked the solution and got chickens.

They LOVE roaches. They chase them little morsels down without mercy. Inside, outside, don't make a difference. Roaches can't outrun chickens. Can't be done.

Chickens will fly 50 yards to catch a roach. Yummy.

Now- she kept offering eggs to us. Dozens of eggs. Big eggs, with BIG yokes.

The eggs were converted roaches, turned into chicken eggs- which was a little creepy. Once I thought I saw some antenna twitching in my scrambled eggs while still delicious, but creepy... but sooooo good, but really creepy weird-

If you mix diced onions into the eggs you just gotta wonder every time you feel a crunch when chewing.

Was that an onion or a ............

 

[coinman123]

When I had a lot of chickens (I'm going to get some more soon), I would train them to run to you for food from the sound of a whistle. No matter where they were they would run as fast as they could towards where they heard to whistle. Right now I only have one lonely hen whole lives with my two Nigerian Dwarf Goats inside of their huge enclosure with an expanded modified chicken coop, almost a small barn now I need more chickens soon.

Sorry for my sloppy writing, it may be only almost 9pm but I am exhausted, I can barely see straight, I have been doing a lot today and just want to go upstairs and lay down.

 

[G.I.B.]

I have been doing a lot today and just want to go upstairs and lay down.

When you said you were going upstairs to lay down...

Did you mean 'poop out a pillow?'

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

When you said you were going upstairs to lay down...

Did you mean 'poop out a pillow?'

HA

Or something else with a pillow

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

"what is their FAVORITE treat?"

Floss

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Your chickens eat better then me and that is why I want you to adopt me.

Lil too much honestly there Sam.

 

[jagchaser]

A local butcher that raises hens and beef told me to put pieces of freshly cut up deer carcass outside the coop.

My birds went nuts over it.

If egg production is slow, try it, great protein boost. It will also help cure their boredom.

Anything with a little fat on it. My chickens all run wild, literally we have to hunt them with a shotgun. They love anything with fat on it. They get so much greens and bugs that scraps don't mean much unless its porkchops or deer carcass or something like that.

 

[smokeythecat]

Mine follow me around like puppies. Except for Scrambles, the Wonder Chicken, who hasn't really figured out life yet, I can just go up to any of the other 3 any time and just pick them up. From day 1 I picked up each one and petted it twice a day since they were 2 weeks old when I got them.

It was another blueberry muffin tonight. I MUST BE WITH THEM whenever they are out. We have a bobcat in the woods.

 

[smokeythecat]

BTW my chickens almost eat better than me too. I can't have blueberry muffins due to the nut oils in most of them.