Our compost pile might be suffering, but these chickens are living large. Tomatoes, fresh arugula, zucchini, eggplant, rice, oatmeal, even some seaweed sprinkles. They also went Japanese with some peanut butter whole wheat udon noodles. Those were a huge hit, I’ve never seen noodles disappear so quickly.
And watermelon. We purchased a big ol’ watermelon about a month ago, and somehow never cut up. Have you ever done that? So incredibly wasteful, I know. Both of us kept mentioning “we really need to cut up that watermelon” but it was always when we were headed out the door, or about to jump on a conference call. Both are bad times to delve into hacking up a watermelon… And so a month passed. Poor watermelon. Good thing we now have feathered disposal units at our beck and call! I thought a juicy red watermelon would trump the noodles, but turns out they’re carb freaks.
However, they’re working their way through it. Seven small hens vs one huge watermelon. Who shall win this epic battle? Any bets?
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Hey Erin & Mike,
We feed our hens and rooster veges and fruit also. They love it! For a few bucks we can get a pile of veges and fruit from the farmers market, and also our neighbor is a trucker, and often when he comes home from a run he just goes into the pen and leaves a bunch of veges and fruit for our animals. We feed them veges and fruit often, but we also mix it up with special all-natural pellets made by Purina that we bought from the feed store. They recommended some pellets in the diet of the young ones for health purposes, and also so when they lay eggs the pellets ensure that the shells won’t be too brittle. Never tried watermelon yet, but they looooove canteloupe! Happy feeding!
Hey — any eggs yet?
They’re still a bit young for eggs, but it could happen any day! Which means Mike checks those nesting boxes probably 20 times a day.