Can I feed the hens pasta scraps?

[EColi]

I'm looking after a friend's hens for the next week or so, her instructions say that in addition to their normal food I should give them starchy scraps (rice, pasta, potato), and cooked veg. Will it be ok to give them some left over cooked filled pasta (cheese and tomato filling?).
Are there any obvious foods that I shouldn't give them (we are vegetarian so no meat/fish scraps in this house).
TIA

Mine love it. Also love grated cheese, bread, cooked rice, Yorkshire pud, any veg, dried fruit (in moderation to prevent runs) and they adore jacket potatoes.

I wouldn't give them chicken (squeamish) but they're not vegetarian (eat insects, small mammals etc).

Thank you.
I'll add the pasta to the chicken bowl

Don't give them salt - they can't tolerate it apparently. So I don't give them bacon scraps and would limit the cheese to small amounts.

Mine love peas but will not eat cooked carrots.

Enjoy the eggs!

don't give them potato, otherwise any scraps fine (though I tend not to give them meat).

Why don't you give them potato?

My mother used to boil up buckets of the peelings for the hens.

why don't give them potato?

Ours' staple diet is boiled potato peelings with layers pellets and grain/seeds

as advised by the breeder we bought them from!

And they are beautifully healthy and glossy and lay reliably

They can't eat raw potato peelings, and it always seems a bit of a faff boiling them up just for the hens! So I avoid potatoes altogether (and we're not big potato eaters anyway).

Mine love left over spuds (roast, boiled, mashed, but I don't bother with peelings), but also ignore carrot (fussy buggers). Chooks generally love pasta, but don't give them too much. Fat hens don't lay.

Fat hens taste nice though!

Nah, fat hens taste disgusting

When your hens give up laying do you ever ermmmm you know .... eat them?

You have to boil an old hen for soup - thats why they were called "boilers".

We ate the cockerel chicks when they got big enough.

MMB is that why unattractive women are called boilers?

well, when the old bird gets to that age when her feathers don't look so neat, the comb is askew, her feet are a bit knarled...

Thanks for all the advice - they loved the pasta, and have had a variety of cooked veg this week along with the end of the bread loaf.
Had lots of eggs and look set to get even more because the neighbours are stuck abroad!

aww thats quite sad - not really a fan of soup .

Well, if you are going to kill and animal (or bird) then you shouldn't waste any?

What do you think is in "chicken flavoured" dog food, and any other chicken flavoured items (pot noodles, crisps, etc)?

awww god bless the old boilers - oooo i dont like waste your quite right - ermmm noodles