Ooh, I can post in here! Am feeding the school chickens tomorrow...

[deepdarkwood]

... and our 'briefing notes' say we can take in scraps, but other than saying that these shouldn't include raw meat, fish or potatoes, doesn't tell us anymore

It's a long time since my chicken keeping days (ie since I was 8), so other than snails and mealworms, I'm a bit stuck. What can we take??

any veg, bread, fruit, anything like that, but not onions or garlic either cause it taints the eggs

Thanks lizandlulu ... cooked or raw?

either, they will literally eat anything!

they really will!

i've got a youtube video of them

and

and take greens like the bottom of cauliflower, or broccoli or cannage, that kind of thing

i give our chickens all of our left over food, absoloutly anything! even grass cuttings

ah, now be careful with grass cuttings - make sure they're very short, as long ones can get entangled and give them sour crop.

Thanks all. We went with windfall plums (very popular), brown bread crusts (popular) and snails (popular with me ... chickens seemed somewhat perplexed by food in packaging ) They did seem excessively greedy though - and apparently spaghetti is a real favourite, nicklebabe!

Sadly, it was recycling day, so dh had already put out the food recycling so I didn't manage to salvage any leftovers!

yup,they'll eat anything.

i think they think spaghetti is worms