I've been reading about how chickens will eat fresh fruit and table scraps, but nothing compares to actually witnessing the act. Our chickens go nuts over rice, watermelon, refried beans, tortilla chips, tomatos lettuce, pasta, shredded cheese.
So far the only things I've seen them be picky about are apples, and falafel. I think they would eat over-ripe apples. They ate half the falafel I gave them, but I think it got too hard. They are like little garbage disposals. Supposedly this diet will give them diarrhea, but I haven't noticed anything. We also feed them "maintainer" crumbles.
They are getting quite large. We expect they will start to lay in a few months, so nest box construction is on the agenda, perhaps for this weekend.
