are my chickens too skinny...?...I think they might be...

[Gillian S]

Hi CuriousChicken,
My girls are looking much the same, I'm starting them on a crumble today. It's got 17% protein, the other feed was grains and had 15% protein in it. hoping that they love it!! have you got any favourite treats that your girls get?

 

[AthenaT]

My rescue "Krewe" was at a 1 on the scale when I got them....They ate like piggies for the first 2 weeks layers pellets, scatch, table scraps and yogurt and oatmeal desert every night. They have slowed down on the pellet and scratch now and are at about a 3 on the scale now. (I also wormed them just in case)

 

[CuriousChicken]

Hi CuriousChicken,
My girls are looking much the same, I'm starting them on a crumble today. It's got 17% protein, the other feed was grains and had 15% protein in it. hoping that they love it!! have you got any favourite treats that your girls get?

Peanuts, she loves peanuts and Cheese. Basically anything, shes a little eating machine right now. but I'm guessing that will ease up in a week or two.

 

[Gillian S]

Hi, I'm curious about the yoghurt and oatmeal dessert. is that something you make for the chickens specifically?

 

[CuriousChicken]

You can make yoghurt and oatmeal just for the chickens, its one of the ways I dose my babies with their weekly vitamins. I also use old bananas, left over hot cereal and rice. When theres no left overs I make a fresh batch of hot cereal or oatmeal put a scoop into a little bowl, I only have two chickens so they get one each, then put the vits in the bowls. The left overs from that go in the fridge for the next day.

 

[Gillian S]

great, I'll give it a go

. i'll also try the peanuts when I have them too!

 

[CuriousChicken]

Make sure the Peanuts are unsalted, most chickens get enough salt in their feed.

 

[AthenaT]

my girls get the yogurt and oatmeal desert every evening.....I keep a batch of yogurt going constantly bought a pint of greek yogurt over a month ago added it to a quart of milk and 1/2 a cup of dry milk, sit it on a heat pad (during the day) set to low in a glass bowl covered with cheese cloth at night after dinner I let the oven cool and put the bowl in the warm oven over night...I pour the slightly runny yogurt over layers of dry rolled oats adding any fruit or veggie scraps...I also add a pinch of ground up adult vitamin sprinkled on top.....they love it and it makes it easier to get them to go to bed. I then add more milk (wet and dry) and a pinch of sugar to keep it going.

 

[CuriousChicken]

I use a B complex and a Flintstones vitamin, the one with no iron. Crush them up mix them together then sprinkle some over hot cereal, oat meal, rice, banana or yoghurt. That ever I have at the time.

 

[Gillian S]

Thanks for the recipes. I am wondering about the vitamin supplements though. Are the diets not balanced enough in general to require them?