4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Beca Chick]

I need your help too think of food ideas for chickens !!!!!

I ' ve tried rice and rasins !

What would you like to try ?!?

Get thinking !!!!

[simone]

mine love tomato cucumber rice banana grapes lettuce sweetcorn, melon etc to be honest

 

they havent turned their beaks up at anything we have offered them yet

[K-F-C]

Mine have had watermelon, cantaloupe, blueberries, corn on the cob, pomegranate, slugs, radish leaves, cucumber (skin removed), courgettes and their flowers... mealworms are their favourite though!

[vikpow]

mine love pasta, shredded wheat, weetabix, peas, broccoli and their favourite is cheese! i only give them treats a few times per week tho.

 

They dont seem to like lettuce or cabbage when i tried them with it, although they did eat them when they were in my veg plot

[chelsea]

As treats my girls love in this order :

 

Corn on the cob (hung up in the run)

Mixed poultry corn

Broccoli (hung up in run)

Grapes

Dried mealworms

Nectarines (on the grass - rolled around like a football )

Sunflower seeds

A strip of millett

Honey seed bells/sticks (made with honey and not animal fats)

Left over mashed potato

Left over boiled rice

Cool natural bio yoghurt on a summer's day

[teri]

mine adore couscous! especially the ainsley harriet variety! they also love cucumber and tomatoes. heinz spagetti also goes down a treat...probably because it looks very worm like

[4Clucks-minusOne]

Mine will follow me anywhere for dry jumbo oats.

[JS1]

Just a related question, how much should one give in the way of treats? Mine are on layers mash or pellets, and that's all they get in the morning, but in the afternoon I usually throw them a few leaves of lettuce and, at the moment because they're available, I pick a few rasps and throw them in as well. They also get a handful of mixed corn in the evening, every third day or so - and have absolutely loved left-ver pasta and veg. I'm worried about overfeeding them on treats, however, so have limited it to, say, two pieces of penne pasta each - would love to give them more, though, so would that be okay??

 

Mine don't like 'hard' leaves like cabbage and have left the peckablock untouched for nearly a fortnight now . Shame as it was quite dear.

[Clare L]

Mine love corn on the cob, lettuce, parsley, corriander, chard, apples and wild bird food mix which has sunflower seeds and stuff in. They love cooked broccolli but wont touch it raw...

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Mine have had watermelon, cantaloupe, blueberries, corn on the cob, pomegranate, slugs, radish leaves, cucumber (skin removed), courgettes and their flowers... mealworms are their favourite though!

 

You peel the cucumber for your pampered princesses .........mine get it with the peel on and if they are lucky it's cut into smaller pieces rather than one piece they have to s"Ooops, word censored!" over!

 

Mine love weeds, sweetcorn in all shapes & sizes from plant...they never recovered after the veg patch ram raid...to tinned or frozen kernels and complete corn on the cob, mealworms and maggots, slugs & snails if the shell is broken, couscous, rice, pasta, grapes, broccoli, lettuce, strawberries, grapes, marrow sized courgette if it doesn't resemble an unexploded bomb, woodlice, flying ants, blueberries, porridge, shredded wheat soaked in water, sultanas, cold potato, not that keen on carrot peelings as they are strewn across the run floor this evening............and they love watermelon!

 

They have a more varied diet than we do looking at this list!!

 

Mine don't like 'hard' leaves like cabbage and have left the peckablock untouched for nearly a fortnight now . Shame as it was quite dear.

 

Mine aren't keen on cabbage either...I'd take the peckablock indoors & try again in a few weeks, just because they don't like it today, doesn't mean the contrary little madams won't change their tiny minds in the blink of an eye !!

 

Mine get a large pinch of corn thrown into the dustbath to get them all (9!) to return to the WIR whenever I go out, keeps them busy for ages!!

 

I don't tend to count fruit and veg as a big treat, though they don't get it everyday & we keep the corn to a minimum. They have a big bowl of pellet mash which they think is a treat in the evening & they have an extra measure of water added in the morning so they finish it off for breakfast...they have dry pellets available ad lib in the feeders.

 

Sha x