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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    More 10 day old loaf bread soaked in cold water with a little goat milk. Then I sprinkle garlic powder on the mush and they go nuts, especially in the warm weather. The tiny babies were taught before Mom left about soaked bread and they love it. Any other "cool" treats suggested for this hot...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    The hens and teenagers got 10 day old bread soaked in goat's milk to soften the bread. I then mowed the non fertilized with chemicals lawn and caught the grass and poured it into the shade down the side of the drive. The 13, 2 month old chicks were moved from a kind of small birthing pen to...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Watch the color of the poops tomorrow and remember why so you don't freak out with the little chicks!!!
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Such is the trend of the chicken. Grab it before someone else gets to it and then once you have it and have run away to a hiding spot....decide it really isn't so great! All the best-
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Unfortunately, that is not what I have been told. Peeled potatoes, cooked are ok, but raw (green or not) contain toxins.......Now as to who we want to believe, I guess it's up to us..... See below: "Chickens can eat peeled, boiled potatoes, but if they consume raw potato peelings or raw...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    RAW potato? I was told there is something in raw potato that will harm chickens, but cooked is ok.....Have you heard that?
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    How interesting. Mine go for the seeds FIRST and then the rest, if given whole. And as far as seeds go, they absolutely adore sunflower seeds. They swallow them shell and all with gusto!
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Any reason why no core or seeds? I put apples (and cores and seeds) into an electric chopper and chop them into fine much and they love it? Are apple seeds bad for chickens?
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Oh my..... I was always told sugar was not good for chickens.....How did they like it? Is it a one time thing or do you give sugar often?
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Yes, they are fine. Mine love them from my pink Apothecary Rose. In fact, so do the goats!
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Meal worms and beetles!!!
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Yes to the bell peppers. They love them here in CT! Last year I let them into my garden bed to do what I hoped would be some debugging. Day one, they are the pepper leaves....Day two the peppers!!! Yikes! Good thing it was near the end of the season, or I would have been very angry with myself.
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Great charts. Thanks. I noticed banana was listed but w/out the peel. My hens love to eat the inner skin and strip it clean. Sometime, I put a banana skin in a blender with goat milk and make then a drink and they love it and I have seen no ill effects. Does anyone know if banana peel is...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    One year, we had a lot of watermelon and I really wanted the chickens to share in them as a treat, but also as an extra food source. I finally ended up chopping the rind and skins in my processor and they loved them! After a week or so, I didn't need to chop any longer and if I put in a large...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    OK....then I won't feel bad when I have a little chocolate dessert left and toss it to the hens. Just wondering if anyone really knows if chocolate is "bad" like for dogs for the hens. I really try to limit sugars and all, but when there is a small bit of cake or cookies, I go for it with...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    I chocolate "good" for chickens? I was always told it was very bad for cats and dogs, so I made the assumption it, too, would be bad for other animals, but I see I could be incorrect. Do you often give chocolate whatever? No side effects?
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    I have never given hard boiled eggs to my flock, but it sounds interesting. How often do they get this.....as a treat, only or as a staple? Is there a special purpose? Thanks!
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Oops....sent too soon....sorry. Meant to add I always make the hatching/broody hen a post hatch meal of cooked oatmeal, corn meal, molasses and raisins for her hard efforts. The hens love it and quickly share it with their clutch.
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Yes, Violet leaves are fine for hens and goats, as well. Our critters get their "salad bowl" of them every day as a treat. Had 9 eggs hatch under a broody hen yesterday and into today. Mother is Fr. Black Copper Maran and so is Father, but she also talked a few friends into laying in her nest...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    I am always afraid to give them grapes unless I cut them because I had a hen, in her haste to be the first, gobble one down whole and choke! Do you give them whole?
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