Keeping chickens at home for eggs

Don’t throw away those table scraps! Give them to your hens. When you feed your hens real human food in addition to layers pellets, you give your hens not only a complete nutritional foodstuff but you also add a little extra fun for the hens during feeding time.

It also benefits you because feeding your hens table scraps seems to lead to nice yellow (sometimes even orange!) yolk. They have been found to taste better and improve presentation upon cooking.

They make baked goods extra tasty, too! Store bought eggs will pale in comparison. They are paler and more watery. You can include any scraps that could be included on a compost heap except raw potato skins and the obvious exceptions like tea bags and coffee grounds.

 

If the scrap is from something that you yourself ate, you can include it with your regular hen feed. It even stretches the use of your regular feed and you’ll find that you are spending less.