Feeding Chickens

If you're a junk food addict, you may want to think twice about feeding your chickens table scraps. However, if you're eating whole grain pasta, whole grain bread and a ton of organic fruits and veggies, table scraps are a great supplement to your flock's diet. A few of my hens' favorite people foods are:
* Watermelon (They will take the rind and eat it down to a paper thin skin.)
* Corn on the cob
* Leftover scrambled eggs
* Spaghetti
* Wheat bread or multi-grain bread
* Oatmeal (Not instant. There is too much sugar in that stuff.)
* Strawberries (Organic ONLY. The inorganic ones are just covered in pesticides and fungicides. I only serve them ones I grew myself.)
* Peas

They'll eat a lot of other healthy things, too, but this is a good starting point.

Saying you have free range chickens is a fancy way to say you are letting them chow down on your yard. My hens love to hang out in the gardens, which used to be filled with slugs, crickets and pill bugs. They still find one sometimes, but they ate several generations of them this spring. They also have weeded a ton of the garden. They love all the different types of dock, dandelions, wood sorrel and wild strawberries. They eat sprouts of poke, but ignore this plant when it gets bigger, which is good since it becomes unsafe to eat when it is a full size plant.