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| Question about Pets:I have eleven laying hens 5 months old. Martha Stewart said they eat fruit I was wondering if that is true.?.? |
Well first of all if your hens are that old you need to be feeding them a finishing mash approximately 15 percent protein or adding a scratch grain and a granite grit to their diet. Studies show that hens that mature slowly and are not overly fat produce far more eggs over their lifetimes. Be sure and add oyster shell and plenty of greens like grass when they begin to lay.
To answer your question, yes they love fruit. Chickens are omnivores which means they'll eat just about anything. They will not eat potato peels and some say they can even poison a chicken. Everything else seems fair game! They are great garbage disposers and eat my families leftovers in addition to their regular feed. The only thing I don't feed mine, in addition to the potato peels is ...CHICKEN. In addition to that being just GROSS, there is a possibility of passing diseases.
(kinda like mad cow disease) It is great turning wasted food into delicious fresh eggs!
People interested in chickens for eggs should check out a couple of my favorite websites.
www.backyardchickens.com
www.ubuilderplans.com
The funniest thing I ever saw MY chickens eat was pizza. We had a power outage and several frozen pizzas were ruined so we fed them to the chickens. How funny to watch a hen in the middle of a pie scratching through the cheese like anything to find the sausage chunks and watching three chickens playing chase and keep-away with a pepperoni!
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