BackYard Chickens › BYC Forum › Raising BackYard Chickens › Feeding & Watering Your Flock › What is your chickens favorite treat?
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

What is your chickens favorite treat? - Page 3

post #21 of 95
7/8/09 at 5:40pm

I fed mine mustard greens the other day and they loved them.  They love corn on the cob.  I am going to give them some cabbage today and some old peaches to see if they like them.

10 Quarter horses, 2 mustangs, 1 Chinese Crested, 1 Golden Retriever, 2 1/2 Golden Retrievers,  2 barn cats, 2 kids and a husband.  Silkies, Ameraucanas, Dominiques, Araucana, Quail and lots of new chicks.

Please visit:  www.hoofandhenranch.com and www.texasscribe.com    Enter BYC at checkout for a 10% Discount!
Reply
10 Quarter horses, 2 mustangs, 1 Chinese Crested, 1 Golden Retriever, 2 1/2 Golden Retrievers,  2 barn cats, 2 kids and a husband.  Silkies, Ameraucanas, Dominiques, Araucana, Quail and lots of new chicks.

Please visit:  www.hoofandhenranch.com and www.texasscribe.com    Enter BYC at checkout for a 10% Discount!
Reply

Featured Stories on BackYard Chickens

Raising Chickens on a Shoestring
Have you ever wondered how a hen can lay an egg every day?
The Basics Of Raising Chickens - Raising Chickens 101
post #22 of 95
7/8/09 at 5:51pm

Bread, Yogurt (embellished with bird seed), Wheat Grass (grown in a tray), in that order.

I gave them their first tomato's today (grape) and they didn't last long.

I read that their bread should be limited in the hot weather, so I am going to have to learn how to make yogurt. Right now the yogurt is costing more than their regular feed!

PS: Mine didn't like carrots either.


Edited by BioBob - 7/8/09 at 7:11pm
My Flock--Lacy the Super Chicken GLW (always lays Jumbo's--record 111 g.)
               Bertha The Elder BSL (lays Extra Large and Jumbo's)
               12 Golden Comets who seldom miss a day without laying
Reply
My Flock--Lacy the Super Chicken GLW (always lays Jumbo's--record 111 g.)
               Bertha The Elder BSL (lays Extra Large and Jumbo's)
               12 Golden Comets who seldom miss a day without laying
Reply
post #23 of 95
7/8/09 at 5:57pm

Mine love any type of melon, cabbage, lettuce, yogurt with oatmeal and grapes corn on the cob. And then some. That then some appears to be toads also. I just found them chasing each other for a piece...
In the winter, a warm oatmeal-yogurt mash concoction.


Edited by nerfy - 7/8/09 at 6:36pm
Reply
Reply
post #24 of 95
7/8/09 at 5:59pm

bread!! although i have its supposed to be in moderation: so i stopped giving it to them for a bit.. so now its grass!!! they see me comming with clumps and they trap me at the door.
they used to have grass in their coop run...mmmm not anymore!!!



andrea,ct.

mom to: 1 husband 2 kids
3 dogs, 1 cat,  4 ducks, welsh, black swedish, buff orpington
9 hens and 1 crazy rooster!rir/plymouth rocks/leghorn/campine/wellsummer/and some other breeds.

6 more baby chicks added July 2012!!!

Reply

mom to: 1 husband 2 kids
3 dogs, 1 cat,  4 ducks, welsh, black swedish, buff orpington
9 hens and 1 crazy rooster!rir/plymouth rocks/leghorn/campine/wellsummer/and some other breeds.

6 more baby chicks added July 2012!!!

Reply
post #25 of 95
7/8/09 at 6:20pm

my girls love yogurt, grass and worms.

Life's too short to eat store bought eggs!
1 Araucana, 1 RIR, 1 Barred Rock, DW that started my chicken obsession
Daughter, Son, & an English Lab
Reply
Life's too short to eat store bought eggs!
1 Araucana, 1 RIR, 1 Barred Rock, DW that started my chicken obsession
Daughter, Son, & an English Lab
Reply
post #26 of 95
7/8/09 at 6:57pm

Corn on the cob!! I feel like I'm in the movie "The Birds!" if they see me with corn on the cob.

Reply
Reply
post #27 of 95
7/8/09 at 7:17pm

My girls devour bits of bread and chopped hard boil egg.  The egg I don't do often, as that's something I make just for them (it's not like I've got eggs coming out my ears!  Where's my eggs?!).

They haven't eaten the broccoli or cabbage that I put out for them, or the leftover chopped salad. 

The absolute favorite treat so far has got to be the Japanese Beetles.  I dump the bait bags into a pail of hot water, and then dump out the dead beetles.  OMG!!  They're gone in seconds!

They seem to have had fun stomping the bejeesus out of the Swiss Chard in the garden, but I don't think they actually ate any.

Pride                             
Integrity                         
Guts                               It's a thin blue line between us and them.
Reply
Pride                             
Integrity                         
Guts                               It's a thin blue line between us and them.
Reply
post #28 of 95
7/8/09 at 7:21pm

What they REALLY love: 

corn on the cob, uncooked
cottage cheese - I send my daughter out with a bowl full and they practically knock her down to get it.
cooked spaghetti
fruit



What they WON'T eat at all

carrots
banana
iceberg lettuce (even when I cut it up really small)

1 dear husband, 1 dear daughter, 1 dear son, 1 horrible cat, 1 turtle, 4 Mini-Nubian Goaties, 1 bearded dragon, 2 BOs, 3 BAs, 2 RIRs, 1 WL, 1 SLW, and 1 GLW
Reply
1 dear husband, 1 dear daughter, 1 dear son, 1 horrible cat, 1 turtle, 4 Mini-Nubian Goaties, 1 bearded dragon, 2 BOs, 3 BAs, 2 RIRs, 1 WL, 1 SLW, and 1 GLW
Reply
post #29 of 95
7/8/09 at 7:25pm

bread,weeds,ham in that order

I have 16 chickens, 3 Dogs and 3 aquariums...for now 
Reply
I have 16 chickens, 3 Dogs and 3 aquariums...for now 
Reply
post #30 of 95
7/9/09 at 4:56am

cooked spaghetti , bananas



oh and grass. they LOVE grass

Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock

Featured Stories on BackYard Chickens

Raising Chickens on a Shoestring
Have you ever wondered how a hen can lay an egg every day?
The Basics Of Raising Chickens - Raising Chickens 101
BackYard Chickens › BYC Forum › Raising BackYard Chickens › Feeding & Watering Your Flock › What is your chickens favorite treat?