Are My Chooks Spoiled?

[Barry Natchitoches]

My wife filled their feeding troughs with layer feed this morning.


Then when I got home from work, I picked a bucket full of fresh weeds and threw that into their chicken yard for them. (Our birds -- currently twelve hens and a rooster -- are confined to a henhouse and a large, fenced in yard that surrounds the henhouse, so we have to pick greens for them).


Then when my wife finished her latest batch of strawberry jam, she still had a bunch of fresh strawberries left. So she cut some of them up, put them in a couple of bowls, and took them out there to cool the birds off during the heat of the day.


Then late in the day, we gave them some clabbored, raw milk that I get from a local dairy. They love to eat the clabbored solids.


In the meantime, they have a large fan to keep them cool, and two kitty litter pans that we fill with fresh, clean water so that they can go "wading" when they want to cool down in this southern heat.


(They also have a heater to keep them warm in the winter.)


Are my chooks spoiled?

 

[Silkie Sue]

YES!!!!

But if i was born a chicken, i would love to live at your place

 

[Celtic Chick]

Nothing wrong with spoiled chickens!
My hubby & I do the same thing with our critters.

 

[patman75]

Yes!

You must have some big, fat and happy chickens.

I try not to think of the $$, time, space and all the treats I give my chickens.

 

[snowflake]

can I come live at you house? I would love some fresh strawberrys,

lucky girls

 

[andrew6d9]

Yes!
I wish i could spoil my chickens that much.

 

[aggie9296]

spoiled chickens seem to be a side effect of their owners being on BYC!

 

[ginger c.]

i don't think they sound spoiled at all! y'all are just being good parents!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Of course they are spoiled, but why shouldn't they be? I am also guilty of spoiling my babies. I did notice you didn't mention you've cooked for them. I cook for mine: oatmeal, veggies, rice ect. So maybe my birds are spoiled, and yours are just well taken care of

 

[hannakat]

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I do the same thing! They aren't chickens, they're my pets, and I love fussing over them. Figure the better I feed them, the better they feed me!