Am I overfeeding/spoiling them?

[Folly's place]

Grammies, is the total less than about 10% of what they eat every day? It sounds like a lot of extra goodies to me! Your birds will go to bed in the evening just fine without treats, but at least give very small amounts of all this stuff; it's good, but small amounts.
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Are you feeding a whole grain type diet, or crumbles or pellets? Whole grain diets have a whole set of possible problems of their own...
Mary

 

[MissChick@dee]

Feel their keel bone. You should be able to identify it right away. If not...their too fat. There’s a chart on line you could look up. I’m on my iPhone posting links (for me) is impossible.
I just don’t have the patience after posting with my right thumb!!!!

 

[Abriana]

Meal worms will make them fat! If you want to give them yummy treats that they will enjoy feed them things like salad ingredients and veggies (lettuce, bell peppers, cucumber, zucchini, tomato, broccoli, squash, cabbage (but NEVER feed potato, you can feed them sweet potato however),etc) and fruits (grape, apple, pear, banana, etc). They love these sorts of treats! Feed things like mealworms very occasionally, and spread them out through grass so that they have to work to get to them. They will scratch in the same spot for a long time! My chickens get bread, rice, and mealworms on only super special occasions (like their birthdays lol. I saw a thread on here where someone made their chickens a birthday cake!).

 

[MissChick@dee]

Meal worms will make them fat! If you want to give them yummy treats that they will enjoy feed them things like salad ingredients and veggies (lettuce, bell peppers, cucumber, zucchini, tomato, broccoli, squash, cabbage (but NEVER feed potato, you can feed them sweet potato however),etc) and fruits (grape, apple, pear, banana, etc). They love these sorts of treats! Feed things like mealworms very occasionally, and spread them out through grass so that they have to work to get to them. They will scratch in the same spot for a long time! My chickens get bread, rice, and mealworms on only super special occasions (like their birthdays lol. I saw a thread on here where someone made their chickens a birthday cake!).

Mine say no to...bell peppers (seeds yes) I say NO to bread, nope on banana and pears.
Big yeses from my girls on tomatoes & cucumber & justa bout any leafy greens (no spinach) canned & fresh corn, shredded cabbage, shredded carrots. And meat of any and all kinds especially chicken!
All in moderation.