LJ's Chooks Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Or should that be beak!!! Yep I thought i was giving them a treat, but oh no, not our chooks, they appear not to like raisins!!! Unless their treats are sweetcorn or grapes they are not interested. Chickens are the funniest things... do you think Asda will take back the 3 value bags of raisins i've just bought and swap then for green giant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Hang on to them for a couple of months - you just might find they change they're minds Mine have always turned their beaks up at meal worms since I got them - until last week when they suddenly decide they're the best thing ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ's Chooks Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 Oh thinks we've just got fussy girls and i should have got them raisins from M&S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_H Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Mine went crazy for layer pellets that I put on the run floor rather than in the grub yesterday!! Seems ground food is much nicer! H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillfamily Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 It's strange what our girls will and won't eat :? Someone said their chooks don't like tomatoes My girls go crazy for a tomato and jump up trying to get them out of their treat bowl whilst you're trying to put the bowl on the ground Wait a while and they'll probably like raisins, my girls always pick the raisins out of their chookie porridge first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckov Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 See, I made chucky porridge and my girls wouldn't touch it until it had stood out in the rain for 3 days, and then they were interested!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I tried raisins but they weren't interested (OH suggested soaking in water for a while to soften them up). 2 of them love grapes, no-one likes sweetcorn, only one will eat a seed mix and the quartered apple only got eaten 5 days later when it was discovered very brown in the flower border while free ranging. But they all loved pellet porridge. Henwatch serves it with yogurt, bokashi bran and garlic powder - yummy Perhaps we should write a recipe book of foods for chickens to give new owners an idea of what they like and for experienced owners to share new food combinations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ's Chooks Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 oooh, havent tried giving them porridge yet... just normal stuff or how do you make it up for them?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I use ready brek or weetabix well baby weetabix (no salt lol) mixed with warm water they love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAJ Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 make porridge with water only - can add in layers pellets and anything else (mixed corn?) as a treat - stand well back as they can flick it quite a long way - and over each other. Tracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clucking mad Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 i heard that they really love marmite on bread/toast. its full of b vitamins aswell, not sure what they actually do mind you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 mine like marmite too, on soggy toast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Mine like mealworms, raisins, mixed corn, spaghetti and grapes. They don't like tomatoes, lettuce and seem a bit undecided on brocolli. I think it's a bit of trial and error! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Perhaps we should write a recipe book of foods for chickens to give new owners an idea of what they like and for experienced owners to share new food combinations Don't know about other newbies but that would be brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickaboo Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Don't judge me, but my girls love the little red boxes the 'sunmaid' raisins come in, they peck at them until they get all the raisins out. So I buy those rather than cheapo value Oh is appalled!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajm200 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Chickaboo, You spoil them Just like the rest of us Ours love anything except raw broccoli. Their favourites are toast soaked in water and melon seeds. I buy the girls a cabbage whenever I go shopping and have started buying melon every week as my son loves it and the chickens always get at least a quarter... but hubby doesn't know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwichick Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Mine went crazy for layer pellets that I put on the run floor rather than in the grub yesterday!! Seems ground food is much nicer They sound like my youngest son I've come to the conclusion that chooks and small children share many of the same traits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Mine are greedy madams. They had one or two dislikes in the early days, but now they eat everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 (edited) mine LOVE sweetcorn, so much so it's all gone, but they have been buk buking for more (chance would be a fine thing) Sugar runs up and down the run seeing off blackbirds! They love raisins, corn, broccolli aswell.. still learning what they like, but they go crazy and I mean crazy for sweetcorn! just edited to add that this is the first buk bukking we've heard since getting them on saturday.. Edited April 28, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarabelle Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Don't judge me, but my girls love the little red boxes the 'sunmaid' raisins come in, they peck at them until they get all the raisins out. So I buy those rather than cheapo value Oh is appalled!! Hi Chickaboo. Try this (I do it for my son rather than keep forking out for the Sunmaid raisins): refill the boxes with cheapo value raisins! No more guilt at spending too much money That's if your girls leave the boxes intact I guess. Having said that, my husband keeps bringing home organic dried fruit, so my son is actually getting better raisins than those originally in the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenanne Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Mine eat raisins that've been soaked overnight, but not otherwise. They used to only eat peeled grapes - not that anyone about here would ever sit in the sunshine peeling grapes for her chickens, you understand - but now they eat them with skins on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phosphorus Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Chickens are the funniest things... do you think Asda will take back the 3 value bags of raisins i've just bought and swap then for green giant? Could be the Asda raisins - are house are raisin fanatics and I bought some from Asda rather than Waitrose to cut costs. Never again - taste just wasn't there Sure chooks aren't as picky though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ's Chooks Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 We are all such good chicken mum's and dad's... my shopping bill keeps going up... nothing much to do with inflation, just all the chicken treats!!! Still they are wonderful and so rewarding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathybc Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 LJ - find someone with chinchillas, they will do anything for a raisin! I haven't tried my chooks with raisins 'cos my chins would go mad at me for giving them away ! i tried the hens with marmite on a muffin, but they 'don't'. They can't get enough grapes though. I tried sweetcorn once, they weren't sure, but I had only just got them so I will try again. They do like Kale, greens and carrot tops. Also pear and apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 dOn't give up with the raisins. My three all turned up their beaks at grapes the first time I offered them some. And cabbage. Now they go bananas for grapes, they can't get enough cbbage...and in fact it's been a similar story with most new foods I've introduced. They still don't like broccoli though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
