Today I am sharing why I stopped giving my chickens kitchen scraps and what I give them instead.

Unfortunately chickens aren’t pigs and they can’t/won’t eat everything.

I loved when we added chickens to the family because I was excited to not throw away so much scrap food. Instead we would feed our scraps to our hens. I thought surely they will be the happiest and healthiest chickens around. Unfortunately chickens aren’t pigs and they can’t/won’t eat everything.

One day a friend suggested instead of throwing out all of my vegetable scraps..

I would dump a large bowl of scraps out every few days from the kitchen, only to find that they didn’t eat them all. Onion tops, carrots, asparagus and celery were all common scraps my hens weren’t eating, along with many others. One day a friend suggested instead of throwing out all of my vegetable scraps, saving them to make vegetable stock instead.

I was even shocked at how much I could save and reuse.

After thinking it over a few days, I decided to start a brown paper bag vegetable scrap pile. It became quite addicting, I found myself saving so many scraps that otherwise would have been wasted. I was even shocked at how much I could save and reuse.

Now it really feels like we aren’t wasting food.

The best part is after cooking all the vegetable scraps down, the chickens are much more likely to eat them. Now it really feels like we aren’t wasting food. For more information on how to make vegetable stock, click here.

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