During the summer we get hundreds of peaches from our two trees. The chickens love these, however they get very dirty. They get their faces all sticky and immediately return to the garden. I had to use a wet rag to clean Beactrice's face every day and she would just get dirty again. No one was as bad as her, though. We cut up the peaches and skin them and freeze them for later, we get many big zip lock bags full and never use all of them throughout the year. We have peach cobbler and peach pie and peach cookies even and we always have some left over.
Beatrice really enjoyed peach season and we must have processed one hundred peaches and thrown away triple that because we aren't home for huge chunks of the day and they fall by the minute.
They also enjoy eating maggots. We have two big garbage bin composters that soldier flies lay their eggs in. We don't give them whole dishes of them because rotten forage isn't very healthy for them. We wait for the. Maggots to fall out of the bins and they eat them then. Penny will come running if you open or move the composters. She will only run for food. If she thinks she did not get her fair share she will cry so loud I think our neighbors will call animal control or something.
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