Can a chicken eat ...?

Question

We have just gotten chickens this year and we're still learning what they can and cannot eat. We're freezing corn, and taking it off the cob before we freeze it. We googled if full grown chickens can eat corn on the cob, but we want to feed them just the cob. Can they eat just the cob?

Answer 1

No they will not eat the cob. My Grandmother only feeds her chickens dried corn. They also eat insects and worms when they can get them.

Answer 2

A chicken will try to eat just about anything that lays on the ground, glass, metal, grain, bugs and worms, excrement from other chickens, or their own, but to eat a cob, well, they have to be very hungry and better if it's ground up for them.

Oh yes, they do not get much food value from the cob, so it has to supplemented with other foods.



I have no idea why some idiot chose to thumbs down this answer, but if you read and understand the question, which I doubt, the Asker stated he or she was to cut the corn from the cob and freeze the kernels, well, fyi, when cutting corn from the cob there is still a very small amount of kernel left on the cob, and having grown hundreds of chickens during the great depression I can attest to the fact the chickens will indeed peck and eat not only the small amount of corn left on the cob, but also some of the cob itself.

Answer 3

Over the winter I visited a farm and they fed their 200-and-some chickens dry corn on the cob, they had a ton of it on the cob still all over the floor of the chicken coop... it is fine for the chickens if they are just egg layers or to be eaten, but if you care about them alot as pets, I'd buy them special chicken feed. Will the eat the cob? No, chickens will only eat the corn kernels, but if they are starving, they might.

Answer 4

You can't feed them just the cob. The cob is not edible. Go out and by some egg layer mash feed. Also buy some ground up sea shells. The ground sea shells aid with digestion and help to grind up food. And they are a good source of calcium which they need for laying eggs. Egg layer mash is good because it is high in protein. Which is also good for chickens to lay eggs. Also its good to let them go out and roam around the yard. The grass and bugs they eat are really good for them and it will help reduce the number of bugs in your yard. Just make sure you treat them for mites and coccidiosis every so often.

Answer 5

Corn is not good enough. You should buy them specialized chicken feed. It shouldn't be tough to find.

Answer 6

They will eat pretty much anything if they don't like it or can't they won't, they seem to really like mealworms for a strange reason.

Answer 7

idk