The Poultry Keeper

Zooey · Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 82 Location: East Sussex

That's odd about carrots. Our lot get treats every day and about the only thing they won't touch is carrot. They particularly love my Chinese stir fry and Miss Stick Beake will rummage around in search of her beloved mushrooms, but the carrots are always left at the end of the day Smile

rubychik · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

try them cooked, mine dont like raw but devour cooked Smile

Zooey · Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 82 Location: East Sussex

Yes - they are cooked and finely chopped too. I'm doing another stir fry tonight and I'll make extra just for the chickens. They love my vegetarian Thai as well and on the odd occasion I get taken to our local Nepalese, they have a "doggy bag" from there! Smile

George · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5661 Location: London

fenwoman · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

Carrots are high in vitamin A which helps to boost the immune system. They are best par boiled as this releases the vitamin A best apparently. I go through a lot of carrots here because the dogs like them raw, and of course my amazon parrots are prone to vitamin A deficiency so they get them and the chickens like a whole raw one to peck about on. It somtimes takes new birds a while to suss stuff out. The new leghorns didn't know what an apple was until they got to watch the birds in the ajoining aviaries go into a feeding frenzy, now they jump up and down in excitement when they see me with a bag of apples Smile

Zooey · Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 82 Location: East Sussex

Well, our lot have been offered just about everything veggie over the years, including blackberries, but they won't touch carrots in any form. On the other hand, our pig will eat everything except mange tout... Laughing