just a little confused...

[Verity]

Ours get their layers pellets first thing, and then corn later in the day. I cooked too much pasta the other day for tea, and that went down well. They do love slugs, but only the little ones! They spent a good hour or so digging over the newly created raised veg patch looking for tasty morsels. Thankfully, there's no veg in it yet, just rhubarb... When they got bored with that, two of them moved on to next dorr's garden, so a rescue operation had to be mounted before they found the slug pellets on the hostas!

From what I've read, the general concensus seems tobe pellets as a 'basic', corn after lunch, and then treats here and there.

[seahorse]

I buy mixed corn for the rooster but he prefers left over fruit salad . melon, blueberries, strawberries and grapes, without custard or cream

[Clive]

In preparation for the arrival of our first chickens on Saturday, we bought a bag of something our local supplier calls "treat" for use as a scratch feed to suppliment the layers pellets.

It includes corn, wheat and other grains as well as fruit, oyster shell and grit.

by the way it looks and smells, I may well be joining them for a handful in the afternoons! Alpen for chickens!!

[Richard]

I think I'll stick to Corn Flakes and a slice of toast

[Phil Black Rock]

Ours get their layers pellets first thing, and then corn later in the day. I cooked too much pasta the other day for tea, and that went down well. They do love slugs, but only the little ones! They spent a good hour or so digging over the newly created raised veg patch looking for tasty morsels. Thankfully, there's no veg in it yet, just rhubarb... When they got bored with that, two of them moved on to next dorr's garden, so a rescue operation had to be mounted before they found the slug pellets on the hostas!

From what I've read, the general concensus seems tobe pellets as a 'basic', corn after lunch, and then treats here and there.

Verity, be careful I read on a chicken site somewhere that Rhubarb leaves are actually poisonous to hens.
I have two clumps of rhubarb in my garden and when the hens are OUT I keep a close watch on them, though as yet they do not bother with it, do they know it is no good for them, if so who told them.
Grapes of the green variety are my chucks favourites, they go wild for them, purchased a box of red yesterday, they will eat them, but nothing like as keen as the green. )chu:

[Verity]

Thanks for that Phil. They aren't bothered about the rhubarb (though, by looking at the leaves, SOMEONE is!)... the young beans though are a different story! I must try grapes, but think I'd be a bit bitter about handing them over!

The ladies have discovered a source of great fun and yummy grubs at the back of the garden. We keep various small animals (rabbit, GP, degus, hamster) and when I clean them out, I put all the used hay/ straw/ shavings on a heap at the end of the garden. Or at least it WAS a heap... now it's EVEYWHERE...

[wendy]

Hi Verity.
Before I read that rhubarb leaves were poisonous, my girls totally devoured the whole plant. Leaves, stalk... every last bit. They are still walking around as right as nine pence. Mo did say something somewhere on here that after July the poison starts to concentrate or something like that.
But my poor plant didn't get to survive that long. It is now barracaded from them, so I can have some this year.
Wendy