Nobody here but us chickens!

In reply to friedgreencorrado:

I would say cooked, and fresh from the table. I'm pretty sure it's bad to feed any bird uncooked grains of rice, and you should never feed them anything spoiled.

1988RedT2 wrote: In reply to friedgreencorrado: I would say cooked, and fresh from the table. I'm pretty sure it's bad to feed any bird uncooked grains of rice, and you should never feed them anything spoiled.

Thanks. Like I said, we're still a while away from doing it ourselves, but every data point helps. (insert "thumbs up" icon here..)

friedgreencorrado wrote:

Zomby Woof wrote: especially rice, pasta

Dry, or cooked? (Dried out leftovers is "dry" again, IMO)

Zomby Woof wrote: and anything red.

Hmm, that's interesting. Can you elaborate? We're not really close to actually doing this yet, but any info is good.

Cooked leftovers. They won't eat anything too hard. They seem to really like anything red, like, watermelon, spaghetti with sauce, and they are especially nuts for tomatoes. They're not picky, they'll eat almost anything.

Yeah, at my buddies house if you chuck a watermellon rind anywhere near the chickens and it's a mad dash. It's hilarious to watch.

JohnInKansas wrote: I was a nationally-ranked chicken judge in high-school

They have national rankings for this kind of stuff??

Man this forum is weir... er, ...um, ... I mean eclectic!