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The problem with treats is that the chicken will eat only so much per day, the more treats they are given the less balanced feed they will eat. For the first 20 weeks or so of their lives they need all the ballanced feed they can get. May be a few treats once a week or so is fine, but if you are...

My birds would love to freerange as well, but my neighbors like their flower beds That is the down side of living in the city. The OP could feed their chicks fruit scraps all they like as they are not laying for at least another 18 weeks. I was merely commenting on the link to the "treats...

Foxhound: When you say tops you mean the greens right? Give them some whole strawberries and see if it impacts laying. Gear: That was my point exactly....with that many birds a bucket of fruit is nothing. If 35 birds ate the fruit and stopped laying that would only be 5% and you wouldn't even...

Quote: Hows many birds do you have? No chicken lays every day, the average is 260 days a year so that leave 105 days a year that they are not laying.

I had a control. I know that 75%-100% of my birds lay every day like clockwork. After feeding strawberries I got 25% lay the next day and 0% the day after that for a few days, then slow progression back to normal 75-100% lay pattern. I only have 4 birds so 6 strawberries is a lot for them. You...

I nix a lot of information like when a DE dealer says it controls parisites. I figure if financially the source of the information stands to gain from it (like the DE dealers who are trying to sell it) than the information needs to be researched for truth, but when it comes to something like...

Quote: The north carolina Dept of Agriculture had a feeding chickens page up for a while and that is where I first read it. (I was going to link to it, but the page is gone now) I did throw my hens 6 strawbarries a while ago to test the theory and they did stop laying for a few days and then...

Fruit should not be fed to laying hens.. It will cause them to stop laying for 4-6 weeks and in some cases forever.