What age can chicks start eating treats?

[_meels_ the chicken mom]

Can chickens eat treats after 2 months of age? At two months can they eat things like fruit or bugs? Or do i still have to wait?

 

[SilverBirds]

Yes, they can eat treats as long as they have grit.

 

[_meels_ the chicken mom]

Yes, they can eat treats as long as they have grit.

At 2 months? Ir earlier?

 

[SilverBirds]

At 2 months? Ir earlier?

I usually start offering chicks treats at 2-4 weeks old. Other peoples opinions may vary.

 

[Apis mellifera]

Can chickens eat treats after 2 months of age? At two months can they eat things like fruit or bugs? Or do i still have to wait?

I mash up hard boiled eggs and feed it to my 2 week old chicks every couple days. Keeps them strong, healthy and hand tame.

 

[_meels_ the chicken mom]

I mash up hard boiled eggs and feed it to my 2 week old chicks every couple days. Keeps them strong, healthy and hand tame.

Do they have grit? Cause mine have never had grit

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I start my chicks on baby grit at one week of age. After three days I start giving them dried meal worms and other treats, in small quantities. I like to give them a bit of my homemade yogurt to charge their bellies with probiotics. Maybe a little spaghetti with sauce so they won't be scared of worms. Whatever I give them, it will be very small portions, just to introduce new tastes. It's most important they get their nutrition from their bagged feed so I don't want to fill their bellies with "junk" food, even if it is nutritious.

 

[Sussex19]

Because all my chicks are broody raised, they start eating 'treats' or as the mother hen calls it, proper food, from about 3 days old.
She will take them foriging, and in spring find so many bugs and seeds that they hardly eat any chick starter at all.
I am not recommending you try and feed them like that, because you are not a hen, and the brooder isn't a woodland; so it would probably end in disaster.
But as long as they have grit, I would start giving them very small amounts of treats from a week old.
Don't over think it to much.
Other people might prefer to play it safer, this is just how I do things.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Because all my chicks are broody raised, they start eating 'treats' or as the mother hen calls it, proper food, from about 3 days old.
She will take them foriging, and in spring find so many bugs and seeds that they hardly eat any chick starter at all.
I am not recommending you try and feed them like that, because you are not a hen, and the brooder isn't a woodland; so it would probably end in disaster.
But as long as they have grit, I would start giving them very small amounts of treats from a week old.
Don't over think it to much.
Other people might prefer to play it safer, this is just how I do things.

This makes good sense too.

 

[_meels_ the chicken mom]

This makes good sense too.

But i dont have any grit, is that ok? None of my chicks have ever used grit, three generations are fine.