Today is corn muffin day
I'll fill my mix with sunflower, quinoa, barley, & millet
It's not a birthday day but we're just celebrating everyone has survived,
and we've not had but 2 small incidences with illness and injury, since April (When our chicken madness began with one little Chick named...
Today they got apples, apples that the squirrels generously take a bite or 2 out of and leave for bees & bugs.
Whatever they haven't eaten by this afternoon will get raked out & go into the compost pile.
My chicklets have been getting corn stalks, tomatoes, sunflower reminants & dried seed heads.
They strip most green things in an afternoon, takes a say or so for the big sunflower heads.
My daughter gave them just an awful snack this afternoon, (Doritos) just abot two per chick she
said she...
Today my chickies got a home grown treat
a 5lb sunflower head, it was not dried to the point the seeds were hard yet
only as set up about 2 days so the plant parts can pull away from the seeds and
be a little easier for the chickens to peck out. All jumped on it at first
but Alice our Silver...
We are going to be having a rice party once a month just to entertain the kiddos,
Little did I know how the birds would act, When I opened the bowl, I must have had half of the little gals on my arms.
Not patient enough for me to put it down for them...LOL
Gotta take my teen with the cam next...
We gave ours a serving of plain cooked oatmeal yesterday, they were not wild about it.
We probably won't take anymore because it attracted so many flies.
We'll be cleaning out the pen early this week to get all the oatmeal mess outta there.
We did find that they really liked eggplant and loved...
Our chickens get Fruit salad scraps today
plus a couple ground down egg shells
and whatever bolted greens are left in the garden today before I till.
they love garbanzo beans too.
Their preferred sprinkle, my daughter breaks up mealworms on top.
Our chickens are on the medicated chick...
Spaghetti
Happy Hem Mealworm Frenzy
Watermelon
The chicks will be getting little mealworm & quinoa corn cakes this evening
for their Chicken Party...LOL
Anyone out there can you leave suet cakes for your chickens
My youngest had brought one out to buy yesterday with sunflowers seeds
I just...