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Ok here goes my unpopular opinion on the subject.
I was a kid in the 70's raised in North Phx, (Deer Valley when you occasionally still saw a deer). We found abandoned baby owls. A Fish and Game vet called me to talk about nutrition, because they couldn't take the birds for a couple of days. He told me that birds could not digest milk products. Now, a billion years later I still avoid milk products with all of my birds. Birds don't produce the necessary enzyme, lactase. Yes, tons of people give yogurt with good results. I just don't. I give probios and natural ACV. If you feel you must give cheese, my advice would be to give tiny amounts very infrequently. Cheese is salty and excess sodium is not healthy for birds. Yes it is probably responsible for the pasty butt,........Just my opinion. Take it or leave it. Up to you.
Scrambled eggs are my favorite chick treat and they love them. Grit or sand is important if you are giving them any treat that will require mechanical digestion ..... greens etc. Anything you would chew.
And lastly. NEVER, NEVER stop posting the baby pics. I love them!!! Chicken Pictures are the best!!!
edited to be snotty: So Nanner, nanner, nanner... Tammy is right!!!
Thanks Bootsie - interestign thing about lactase - I've not read that one yet. Point about salt is good too.
Here I am telling Tammy she was right & scrambeling up some eggs.
Ok here goes my unpopular opinion on the subject.
I was a kid in the 70's raised in North Phx, (Deer Valley when you occasionally still saw a deer). We found abandoned baby owls. A Fish and Game vet called me to talk about nutrition, because they couldn't take the birds for a couple of days. He told me that birds could not digest milk products. Now, a billion years later I still avoid milk products with all of my birds. Birds don't produce the necessary enzyme, lactase. Yes, tons of people give yogurt with good results. I just don't. I give probios and natural ACV. If you feel you must give cheese, my advice would be to give tiny amounts very infrequently. Cheese is salty and excess sodium is not healthy for birds. Yes it is probably responsible for the pasty butt,........Just my opinion. Take it or leave it. Up to you.
Scrambled eggs are my favorite chick treat and they love them. Grit or sand is important if you are giving them any treat that will require mechanical digestion ..... greens etc. Anything you would chew.
And lastly. NEVER, NEVER stop posting the baby pics. I love them!!! Chicken Pictures are the best!!!
edited to be snotty: So Nanner, nanner, nanner... Tammy is right!!!
Thanks Bootsie - interestign thing about lactase - I've not read that one yet. Point about salt is good too.
Here I am telling Tammy she was right & scrambeling up some eggs.
