Chickens Lead the Good Life

Our chickens lead a pretty good life for chickens.

My church provides lunch for six weeks in the summer for a community youth program.  The kitchen staff, which includes me, goes out of our way to send home food for the chickens.  Unfortunately this has made for some very spoiled chickens.  What they really want to eat everyday is watermelon.  However, the table scraps from my dinner table rarely includes watermelon.  Occasionally I give them fruit like apples but most of the time it is overripe vegetables from my garden or vegetable scraps from cooking.  The last thing I gave them was eggplant which they turned up their noes at.

The ladies in the church kitchen sent home left over corn the other day and suggested I freeze it in muffin pans and feed it to my chickens as a corn popsicle.  So I did.  That was reasonably popular.  

The little chicks have turned up their nose at these snacks but are enjoying their daily visits to the big chicken coop.  We felt bad for them cooped up in the little chick tub so now each morning Mike (and sometimes help from visiting Laura) take the chicks from the tub outside to the big coop.  We lock the older chickens in the run part and let the little guys stay in the coop building and the little run attached to it.  They like it.  Their delicacy is to eat the big chickens feed that has spilled on the ground.  So I guess everybody is happy.