Frozen veggies for chickens

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Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by Robbie » Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:40 pm

Has anybody tried giving (thawed) frozen peas, corn, carrots, green beans to their chickens for winter greens? Did they like them?
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Re: Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by ross » Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:09 pm

Not fed to chickens but have hand fed thawed peas to baby pigeons when there parents abandoned them to get um goin .
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Re: Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by JimW » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:14 am

Yep we feed frozen mixed veggies to all our birds for treats everyone gobbles them up.
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Re: Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by Brebis » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:26 am

I give the turkeys a treat of thawed frozen peas and yoghurt...they love it! Works well to give them small pills, you just pop it inside and they gobble it up!
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Re: Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by Robbie » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:50 am

OK great! I'll buy some for my chickens today. I want to give them high moisture treats in winter.
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Re: Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by Jaye » Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:43 am

I cleaned out my freezer other day, and found all those buried half empty bags of frozen veggies that have *ahem* a "touch" of freezer burn. Guess where they all went? ;-)
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Re: Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by G Williams » Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:44 am

In our area there is a feed store that I went to this summer and bought peas for $18 a 50 lb. bag. I would soak them or maybe boil them and give out for treats. They also love boiled barley.
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Re: Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by Robbie » Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:55 am

GW that's a great idea too! I'll see if our feed store carries these. I know they eat them dry so hopefully they will love them cooked up. I may try a bag of human dry peas at the bulk store first, to see how they like it.
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Post by SandyM » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:38 pm

My guys love thawed peas, thawed spinach and thawed strawberries and blueberries. They won't touch fresh spinach but give them the sloppy thawed wet spinach and they're all over it. I can't put thawed peaches out anymore because it's a feeding frenzy and as Russell Peters father says "Sumbodys gunna get hurt"
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Re: Frozen veggies for chickens

Post by Cuttlefish » Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:31 pm

lol. Sumbody's gunna get a hurt REAL bad. : ) Haven't heard that one in a while.
How long does one boil barley? Sounds like a good back up if I don't have any sprouting.
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