I take that back, the rice has GONE! they loved it….

Hmmm
I opened a can of salmon yesterday and poured off the juices. A bit later I went outside to feed the chickens. I think they smelled a trace of salmon on my hands because they all bunched around me looking very expectant. A few pecked at my hands hoping to find a treat there.

That makes me wonder – what edible wastes shouldn’t we feed a chicken – would it be harmful to give them the salmon juices? And what about those small bones? Are they soft enough so that they don’t get stuck in their gullets?
My motto has been, “If in doubt, throw it out” but maybe I’m depriving them of a healthy treat?

We give our chickens whole cabbages hung from strings in the winter, and they play tether ball with it until it is devoured. We give them all kinds of greens from the garden. They also love grapes and raisins. As a reminder, to keep your chickens in top condition it’s important that whatever the treat, it doesn’t comprise too much of their diet which should be a well balanced pellet or crumble in addition to free-ranging things they find themselves.

@Scottys2
chickens love quinoa and most other Chenopodium seeds and leaves.

my favorite treat to feed them is slugs. sometimes they aren’t interested until I cut a slug in half, but usually they’ll chase the first hen to get a slug until she can get a second to swallow it.

Gotta watch the sodium in canned fish – any canned foods for that matter. Fresh or frozen fish would be much better.

@Scottys2, They’ll love you for it, just cut it up small (beak size) and only give them enough that they’ll eat at one time (so that rats and other vermin – winged – won’t get fed).

Chooks will eat any and all meat, dairy products. They will devour a chicken carcass (cooked) and it doesn’t promote cannibalism – cramped quarters and poor diet does that. Just don’t leave it lying around unattended because of the aforementioned vermin.

I cook up some plain oatmeal and stir into their crumbles when it’s bitter weather. The oats are thermogenic and nutrient dense.

My chicken love quinoa, though I’ve stopped giving it to them because it’s too expensive :D
They like all greens from the kitchen, including the carrot greens.
My youngest goes crazy with spaghettis, trying to eat them from the start, having some issues but she is still ok.
puu, I’m a bit jealous of your chicken eating slugs… mine don’t like them!
They love this white fly larvae from the compost bin too (the fatty ones that move slowly) and any kind of larvae, even big cycadas larvae they take out of each other until they break it.