what do chickens eat?

Answer 1

insects, grains, worms, green leafs, sand

Answer 2

Chicken feed from the feed store or the co-op. I have 10 laying hens (Red Pullets). I have also raised over 200 hens for food. I feed my laying hens a special grain for laying hens called layers feed. When chickens are young you need to worry about cocciodsis. You can buy a chicken feed in medicated or non medicated form. I usually opt for the medicated until they are a couple of months old and then I switch to the non medicated feed. Chickens do enjoy most anything and eat scrap off of the ground, bugs and help keep our horse and livestock grains cleaned up.
Please be careful. Chicken feed that is medicated can kill a horse if you have horses around. The medicated feed is not good for other species as well. Don't allow your dogs or cats to eat any medicated feed. You can always feed the non medicated and if your hens get sick you can treat them individually for coccidiosis.
There are several types of medicine that can be in the medicated feeds. The rumensin is the most dangerous for horses and can kill quickly with no known cures.
Don't worry about the chicken eating scrap or anything at all if you are eating the eggs. The eggs are somehow immune to the crap that chickens eat and will not affect the egg at all. Just wash off the eggs with soap and water and I use a little bleach to be safe, dry them and place them in a carton.
If you plan on eating the chickens check with your processer I think there is a weaning period from the medicated feed before you can eat them. I have heard controversay over this. I opt not to feed the medicated feed while I am eating the eggs. I probably didn't spell the medications right, I couldn't find them in my dictionary.

Answer 3

well you are suppose to feed them grain like corn or layer mesh. but in all honesty a chicken will eat everything and anything, if people seen what a chicken would eat they wouldn't eat chicken or their eggs, a chicken is a cannibel they will actually peck and eat each other. they will eat anything you can think of they would even eat a pile of Sh*t!

Answer 4

Usually they have a salad, and some water when you take them to a really expensive restaurant. and then they just sit there and yap on while you pretend to listen to every word they say, just hoping they will shut up!, and then about half way through the date you ask yourself why you put yourself through all that.....unless your talking about the barnyard variety, then I would have to say live stock feed from the Feed store...it consists of corn and wheat and a few other things....

Answer 5

Grain, corn, chicken feed (not a joke) it's sold in feed stores.

Answer 6

insects/bugs, chicken feed, leftovers. I seem to remember they especially liked corn on the cob.

Answer 7

Anything they eat shoots and leaves, insects and worms seeds, mice, chicks from ground nesting birds.

Answer 8

chicken feed from co-op

Answer 9

Grass seed, insects,scratch feed or laying mash

Answer 10

everything. they like grains, but they eat table scraps, and you can throw the eggshells back out to them and when the hens eat it, it makes their shells stronger ! One of mine had a ground rattler the other day. She killed him too !