Chicken Feeding Guide

The chickens will certainly appreciate any snack you might want to throw their way, but before feeding the chickens, please take note of the following:

• Please ask Leslie, Phyllis, or Peat before feeding any of the chickens.
• For the most part, if you can eat it, a chicken can eat it.
• Avoid feeding them potato peels - the eyes are toxic.
• Some general compost items are okay for chickens, but please avoid poisonous weeds.
• Grass clippings are great, and help to produce the rich orange yolk of their delicious eggs.
• Avoid coffee grounds if possible. They can, however, be added to the regular compost.
• Eggshells are okay, but please crush them up as much as possible. (If they learn to peck at things that look like eggs, they’ll start pecking at their own.)
• Squash and pumpkin seeds, apple cores, and most kitchen scraps are their favorites.
• Grubs, worms, and bugs from the garden will make you a chicken’s best friend forever!
• Don’t feed them chicken ...that’s just a little creepy.

2006.05.19