How do you get your chickens to eat their pellets

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As some have already said, the parallel to picky eating kids is uncanny. This is just the sort of fear that parents who won't lay down the law have. Truth is, if you were very poor and nothing but a porridge or the like was available for your kids to eat, they would eat it and not complain. The instinct to eat to stay alive would kick in. They will not choose to starve.
 
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Sounds like they've got you trained fairly well.
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I think you are right!
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I was particularly fretting over Totty as she has had such an extreme moult, but all her new feathers are starting to open now so I guess I can stop panicing

When I was young we had lots of chickens and they always seemed to devour a huge amount, I don't think I've scaled it down enough to match my little girls appetites.

Thanks for all the advice, I will ask about the crumbles and deny all else (I can always tell them it was all you lots' fault)
 
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Sounds like they've got you trained fairly well.
big_smile.png


I think you are right!
smile.png
I was particularly fretting over Totty as she has had such an extreme moult, but all her new feathers are starting to open now so I guess I can stop panicing

When I was young we had lots of chickens and they always seemed to devour a huge amount, I don't think I've scaled it down enough to match my little girls appetites.

Thanks for all the advice, I will ask about the crumbles and deny all else (I can always tell them it was all you lots' fault)

It's always somebody else's fault!
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I have 3 chickens who have layers mash but want to give them pellets, as it will be better when someone looks after them for me, but they will not eat it, i put a little water with it and they eat a little of it then nothing, how log will they go befor they eat the pellets.
 
Just leave them with layer pellets in the feeder and don't give them anything else. They will eventually eat it. Since you're switching from mash you could smash up your pellets into a crumble as a half measure.
 
My girls did the same thing - went on strike when it was time to switch to layer pellets. I had them on crumble and so what I did was pour pellets into the feeder, followed by crumble. Then I was patient. They got pretty thin and ate a lot of grass, but hunger has ways of making them change. One morning I woke up and the whole flock was downing pellets like they were pill bugs. Never had a problem since, though when I'm raising chicks they'll pick through the compost heap to eat chick starter.
 
most chickens wont eat pellets they prefer crumbles in 30 years of raising chicks I only had one chicken like them and he would eat anything including the other chickens so you know he made a good chicken dinner
 

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