Chicken-Keeping Tips and Tricks: Collard Wraps

This might fall into the obvious Duhhh, you don’t say camp, but sometimes the simplest things are the smartest. And we all like pictures of cute little chickens, so hear me out for a second.

Oftentimes when I feed my flock their fermented grains, I scoop them into a separate dish before I serve them. I do this because the dish is already in the kitchen, and I just want to make a single trip to the coop to release and feed the girls.

But lately, with my garden exploding in greens, I’ve been taking the tiny extra step of harvesting a leaf from my collard crop and filling it with fermented feed. In essence I’m making those same collard wraps that are so popular on paleo blogs and in health food restaurants… and chickens can’t get enough of them either.

You can use any kind of green from your garden… switch it up with a lettuce cup or cabbage bowl some days, or serve a dollop of yogurt or oatmeal or freshly scrambled eggs in it.

As you can see, the ladies love going to town on the grains and they get a little palate cleanser in the end as they devour the leaf too.

You’re left with no messes and no dirty dishes to wash. It’s almost like the feeding never happened. Which is how my chickens usually look at me, heads cocked to one side, wondering where their next treat is.