Chickens fussy about food colours?

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Chickens fussy about food colours?
« on: March 25, 2012, 18:27 »
Mine usually fall on any form of greenery like ravening beasties.  I brought them green kale that was bolting from the plot this morning and they decimated it in minutes.  I have red kale at home, so picked some leaves for them this afternoon - they looked at me like I was mad  ::)  

Tried breaking a few bits of and throwing it to them, a couple tried it then made a dash for the rest.  All the others practially curled their beaks at me and gave me such evil looks I'm still laughing about it  :lol:

Do other people's hens have similar colour prejudices about their food or are mine just particularly dumb to not recognise kale if its not green :wacko:

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Re: Chickens fussy about food colours?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 18:33 »
They have a pretty good sense of smell, don't they? Must be the colour if so....
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Re: Chickens fussy about food colours?
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 18:39 »
Well thats what I thought  ::)  Fussy little perishers  :tongue2:  :lol:

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Re: Chickens fussy about food colours?
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2012, 18:42 »
Well when we had ours they wouldn't even eat greens like that!  ::) :nowink:

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Re: Chickens fussy about food colours?
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2012, 08:37 »
Ours don't like Parsnips not even a little bit hahahaha, they go mad for brussels and cabbage.
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Re: Chickens fussy about food colours?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2012, 11:25 »
Mine are a bit like that with grapes, they pounce on the green ones like ravenous vultures but spend ages looking at the red ones before picking them up :blink:

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Re: Chickens fussy about food colours?
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2012, 20:43 »
Mine go nuts for red or green grapes.  They do like some red things like strawberries and tomatoes but aren't fussed about raspberries  :wacko:  They only get the slightly squished or slug nibbled ones I pick, but it causes mayhem when treats like that are on offer  :lol:

Makes perfick sense to a chicken I'm sure  :nowink:

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Re: Chickens fussy about food colours?
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2012, 23:07 »
Mine won't eat carrots. You can see them looking at them with complete disdain and then looking at me as if to say 'you know we don't like these'. :tongue2:

Yet they will eat them in coleslaw. They love garlic but won't touch ginger and they will peck you to death for pickled onion :wacko:

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Re: Chickens fussy about food colours?
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2012, 20:56 »
Update on this.  Chucked a couple of bolted red kale plants into the run complete with stalks and roots and they dived on them  :blink:  Leaves on their own - must be an evil plot to poison them, ignore at all costs.  Whole plant - attack and eat in seconds  ::)



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