Can Chickens Eat Clover?
Chickens can eat clover — white or red, leaves and blossoms — a protein-decent forage they'll graze all day.
The why
Clover is a legume forage with respectable protein and calcium; free-ranging flocks graze it naturally and love the blossoms. It's a core ingredient of good chicken pasture.
How to feed it
Let them graze it, or toss handfuls from unsprayed patches; dried clover mixed into winter hay flakes gives bored birds something honest to do.
Worth knowing
Unsprayed sources only, and no piles of long-cut wet clover left to mat and mold — fresh or properly dried.
The 90/10 rule: whatever the treat, a laying flock's diet should stay about 90% balanced feed. Treats — even the healthy ones — are the garnish, not the meal. Wondering what your flock really costs to feed? Try our free egg cost calculator.
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