NickySpink
Chirping
- Apr 30, 2021
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This is an article about DEFRA's ruling on scraps. It seems to use a sledge hammer to crush a bug (or a chick!). www.pets4homes.co.uk/pet-advice/can-you-feed-human-food-and-kitchen-scraps-to-chickens.html#
Personally, as I have only 5 hens purely for my own consumption of their eggs I really cannot see why I should not feed them cooked vegetable peelings once a day in small quantities (there are only 2 of us in our household so there is not a vast amount). I do give them the end of of my own machine made bread - mushed down in lots of water - which has hardly any sugar or salt in it.
I cannot find it now but I am sure I read somewhere that you can give a cauliflower to your hens to peck at but not if the said cauliflower has been taken into the kitchen first!
Mine are free range throughout our large (three quarters of an acre) garden and scratch around in the grass and catch frogs and mice occasionally - so much for them not liking meat. They also love the stale end of cat food left in the bowls at the end of the day.
To conclude I am afraid I shall go on as I am with my happy, healthy, and good egg laying hens After all I am just adding a second stage to composting, as the straw and poop from their run goes onto the compost heap instead of the veg scraps going directly there as in the (pre chicken) era.
Personally, as I have only 5 hens purely for my own consumption of their eggs I really cannot see why I should not feed them cooked vegetable peelings once a day in small quantities (there are only 2 of us in our household so there is not a vast amount). I do give them the end of of my own machine made bread - mushed down in lots of water - which has hardly any sugar or salt in it.
I cannot find it now but I am sure I read somewhere that you can give a cauliflower to your hens to peck at but not if the said cauliflower has been taken into the kitchen first!
Mine are free range throughout our large (three quarters of an acre) garden and scratch around in the grass and catch frogs and mice occasionally - so much for them not liking meat. They also love the stale end of cat food left in the bowls at the end of the day.
To conclude I am afraid I shall go on as I am with my happy, healthy, and good egg laying hens After all I am just adding a second stage to composting, as the straw and poop from their run goes onto the compost heap instead of the veg scraps going directly there as in the (pre chicken) era.