My wife had to run off to the other end of the country very suddenly yesterday. She had planned to process two boxes of late season tomatoes. It fell to me to get it done. I diced them up and put them in the freezer so that she can make sauce when she gets back.
The big guy thinks that any time I’m at the butcher block in the morning I must be slicing ham. He loves ham. I told him I was working on tomatoes but he was quite persistent about making sure that I wasn’t slicing ham. I even showed him a chunk of tomato and he went away but he came back 5 minutes later to see if I was still not slicing ham.
Chicken treats = happy chickens and more eggs.
The chickens love the trimmings and rejects. They were very excited when I let them out this morning and they found a bunch of tomatoes in their yard.
They do look happy :)
I did the same with my scraps and insect-damaged tomatoes! The ducks in particular go crazy for them!
Wonderful. What is your wife going to do with pounds of frozen chopped tomatoes? Perhaps a pasta sauce base?
Look at that big rooster! He is very handsome. My girls get spoiled with table scraps and leftovers all the time.
That’s Big Guy. He’s our number 1 rooster. We have two others but he’s number 1. My wife gives them garden waste, plant trimmings, fruit and vegetable waste, and any rice, pasta, cereal, bread, etc we have left over. Anything they can eat they get.
If he is being too aggressive with your hens (I see a lot of feather loss but could just be moulting?) they make some little hen jackets his favourite ladies could wear, or you can put gel nails on him 😂 but I have seen some very nasty wounds from overzealous mating
That’s mostly girl on girl father loss you’re seeing. The ones with the missing fathers are at the bottom of the pecking order. It happens in large working flocks. We’re running around 50 birds right now.