advice on vegetable scraps please

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crapaud

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advice on vegetable scraps please
« on: May 26, 2009, 10:36 »
We are getting pols next week and I'd like advice on vegetable scraps to feed them, as an extra to their diet. I've been told that potato peelings and bread can be fed to them, but as potatos go green and bread is frowned upon as a feed to garden birds, I like to know what other members feed to their hens. Thanks.

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Roughlee Handled

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Re: advice on vegetable scraps please
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2009, 10:46 »
All veg as long as boiled to make a mash can be given to chickens. 
Bread can cause compaction of the crop. Bread can expand in the chickens crop blocking it. I personally do not give bread to my birds.
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Re: advice on vegetable scraps please
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2009, 11:01 »
I never feed fresh bread , they get one slice of hard stale bread between the 3 hens about once a week (keeps them busy for 10 mins ) the rest i crumb and mix a handful in with the cooked peelings.

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Re: advice on vegetable scraps please
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2009, 11:26 »
Does every vegtable need to be boiled, wot can you feed fresh,  i had heard they like a cabbage can this be fresh and the like of tomatoes corn on the cob can they be fed fresh.   nicky

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Re: advice on vegetable scraps please
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2009, 11:48 »
you only have to cook potato, but a lot of keepers will cook other veg to make it mashable
to the others, yes, yes and yes.

just watch them go for a cob of corn! it's soooo funny!   :lol:


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