What Kitchen Scraps are Good or Bad to feed my Chickens?

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Good Things

Cooked meat

Veggies

• boy choy
• silverbeet
• spinach
• cabbage
• lettuce
• veggie peels
• broccoli
• cucumbers.

Fruits

• banana
• melons
• pumpkin
• tomatoes
• apples
• berries

Breads

Grains

Bad Things

Fried foods (difficult to digest and they are not good for you either)

Uncooked and processed meats

Avocados

Onions

Raw eggs or whole egg shells (this can lead to egg eating!)

Chocolate (basically anything high in fat or sugar)

Strong-tasting foods like garlic and fish – they can impart unpleasant flavour to poultry meat and eggs

Anything spoiled or rotten

Anything that contains alcohol or caffeine

Dried beans

We have a whole list of plants that Chickens should not have access to listed on this page titled Plants For & Not For Chickens