My chickens love zuchinni!

[luvinmychickens]

We grow our own delicious zuchinni- We give the hens the really large ones, that we can't use for anything. They love it so much! I know... It's not gardening season anymore. Those girls are gonna miss their zuchinni!

 

[hoodat]

They especially love the ones large enough to contain big seeds if you split it for them.

 

[luvinmychickens]

Yeah, that's what we do for them. The gobble the whole thing up!

 

[digitS']

All those sorts of things are popular with hens:

Zucchini
Cucumbers
Melons

Under the right circumstances, I think they'd almost be willing to kill for 'em!

Steve

 

[luvinmychickens]

Yeah, they sure like those things. I've never tried giving them watermelon yet.

 

[cityfarmer]

I use to cut up the large cucs for my hens until this year when I was running late for work. Just threw a few big cucs out to see what they would do--when I got home from work, all that was left was shell/skin. I will have to remember zucchini.

 

[daver]

Yeah, they sure like those things. I've never tried giving them watermelon yet.

I gave watermelon to the chickens during the hot spells. Got culls from a guy down the road from us for free. I refridgerated them and gave to the the birds when I got home from work. The hottest time of the day.

They would eat down until the rind was paper thin. Fun to watch.

 

[buckabucka]

Watermelon is very popular here. We let the last zucchinis get huge, and put a few in the basement to dole out to the chickens in the colder weather. They like thether-ball cabbage too!

 

[StupidBird]

I gathered up pumpkins from after the Halloween lots closed (with permission). I split one occasionally for the hens, along with a watermelon (I had a bunch volunteer again, they never get ripe). The old watermelons are tossed in a drift along the run fence.

My sneaky hens (the 4 old originals) love to get loose and make a beeline for the collards.

 

[AlienChick]

My hens eat up everything.

They especially loved the cucumbers during the hot summer months.

I would also give them the watermelon rinds that were leftover.

Bananas are extremely high on their delicacy list!