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[Luvachicken]

When I give treats at bedtime I worry that they might have too much.

How many meal worms should they have?

How much porridge oats should I mix up, in fact how much of anything should they have ?

I don't want fat chickens or risk egg production and I only have 2 chickens. Sometimes one of them doesn't want the treat so the other one gets the whole lot - what is the best amount ?

[Chortle Chook]

I think that perhaps in this weather chooks could do with a little fat. I thought I should be more concerned about how much to give my chooks when it gets a bit warmer. At the moment I have been happy to give them all they can eat. Is that wrong?

 

My six little chooks (Silkies and Frizzle x Polands) have porridge each morning amouting to about a quarter of a small dog dish (It is made with porridge oats, weetabix,their usual pellets and a few meal worms all stirred up with warm warter and a smidgen of milk); then at lunch time a small saucer (sort you put under small flower pots) of tit bits (beans, mashed pots, and a slice of banana each) and finally about half a handful of corn per chook each evening. They also have a Grub full of their usual pellets on tap in case they get hungry. Is that way too much? If I feel their breast bones they don't feel fat.

[Space Chick]

They should have no more than an egg cup full of corn a day per chicken, that said, I am giving a lot more mealworms at the moment for the protein.

[Cinnamon]

I generally give them a thrown in handful per hen,of a mix of corn, mealworms, oats and so forth.

But they only have this every other day and get fresh greens too.