Here's a list I stole off the Internet from BackYardChickens.
This is a list of everything you can feed a chicken. However, everybody's chickens have their own tiny brains full of likes and dislikes, so while one person's chickens may come running for grapes or watermelon, another person's chickens may turn up their pointy little beaks at it. Anything on this list is worth a try.
At the bottom of the page are things you should avoid feeding your chickens.
| Treat | Type | General Opinions |
| Apples | Raw and applesauce | Apple seeds contain cyanide, but not in sufficient quantities to kill. |
| Asparagus | Raw or cooked | Okay to feed, but not a favorite. |
| Bananas | Without the peel | High in potassium, a good treat. |
| Beans | Well-cooked only, never dry | Also, greenbeans. |
| Beets | Greens also. | . |
| Berries | All kinds | A treat, especially strawberries. |
| Breads | . | Feed starches in moderation. |
| Broccoli & Cauliflower | . | Tuck into a suet cage and they will pick at it all day. |
| Cabbage & Brussels Sprouts | ||
| Carrots | ||
| Catfood | ||
| Cereal | ||
| Cheese | ||
| Cooked Chicken | ||
| Corn | ||
| Crickets (alive) | ||
| Cucumbers | ||
| Eggs | ||
| Eggplant | ||
| Fish / Seafood | ||
| Flowers (my chickens love Hibiscus petals!) | ||
| Fruit | ||
| Grains | ||
| Grapes | ||
| Grits | ||
| "Leftovers" | ||
| Lettuce / Kale | ||
| Mealworms | ||
| Meat scraps | ||
| Melon | ||
| Oatmeal | ||
| Pasta / Macaroni | ||
| Peas | ||
| Peppers (bell) | ||
| Pomegranates | ||
| Popcorn | ||
| Potatoes | ||
| Pumpkins / Winter Squash | ||
| Raisins | ||
| Rice | ||
| Scratch | ||
| Sprouts | ||
| Summer Squash | ||
| Sunflower Seeds | ||
| Tomatos | ||
| Turnips | ||
| Watermelon | ||
| Yogurt | ||
The most favorite chicken treat of all - mealworms!
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, Shari Malcomb <let_it_rein@...> wrote:
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> What do you feed your chickens? Not only their main feed, but table scraps?
> > bread? What DON'T you feed them?
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> I try not to let them have anything with onions or garlic. I've been told that the flavor goes into the eggs and since I sell most of mine, I'd hate to have someone complain of a weird flavor. lol
> Other than that, everything else is pretty much fair game. They just got finished picking the turkey carcass & ham to bare bones!
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> Shari Malcomb
> let_it_rein@...
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CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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