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    what do chickens and turkeys eat other than their normal grain

    Well ty for great answers, but I wonder why the turkey has stopped laying eggs. She had some chicks hatch, but they died. Now there is no more eggs. We are in winter, could that be the reason?

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    Chickens eat weeds,grass,spinach or similar leaf, fruit, not citrus, they will eat the skins of fruits too, bread, food leftovers. Do not give them fish, it taints the eggs, worms,maggots if your bin has them, turn it down and let them do their cleaning up, bugs and fatty meat. Meat is good for them during the winter. It helps them to keep laying their eggs. I've heard they catch and eat mice too, I don't think mine have.
    When free range they will eat almost anything small enough to get down. When i am shoeing horses i often have chickens, cocks etc.. eating the hoof filings that comes from the horses hooves along with grit, bread and yes - horse muck, or should i say the undigested grain embedded in it.
    Maz

    No probs!
    Chickens will eat styrofoam, paper, cat food, anything small enough to get down including rocks, paint, slugs, ants, grass, tin foil, rubber bands, and everything else.
    mice , ive seen it.

    absolutely everything, they love leftover scraps, vegs...anything

    Don't know about turkeys, but chickens are omnivorous...they eat anything. I've cleaned fish and thrown the entrails into them and they loved them. Also witnessed an unlucky mouse get henned. They pulled it in two directions, skinning it alive, then fought over the pieces.



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