Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Fancychooklady]

Hi guys!

I have a little silkie who i'm trying to get to eat some treats i gave her some meal-worms today and she just stared at them i've tried lettuce, strawberries, grass but yet all she eats are the pellets! The other chooks are gobble gutses especially with meal-worms, she's about 12 weeks old will this change or is there something i can do to make her start eating something other than pellets?

Thank so much!  

Scrambled egg, mine love it! I wish I could convince mine to eat pellets . The grass is always greener ...........

 

[Pinky Macgyver]

If she can see the others eating it, it will probably just take time. Try giving them to her first thing in the morning when she's most hungry.

 

[rexy]

Are you kidding!!! I drop and egg EVERY bloody day hahahah.

I put 3 eggs in my pocket...they got squished.
I put my shirt like a bowl and put 16 eggs in it,, tripped and fell squishing them all into my face and chest .
I have dropped countless eggs.
I have even had my hands pecked by hungry fowl and dropped them.

The chickens eat the shell and all so nothing really goes to waste .

I would have paid to see the ones in your shirt breaking.

 

[rexy]

If she can see the others eating it, it will probably just take time. Try giving them to her first thing in the morning when she's most hungry.

x 2

 

[Bens-Hens]

Our had no interest in worms or snails, but at some point that changed. Now the run looks like a moonscape after they have been looking for worms. If I pick up the rake, they know there will be worms. Now I have to push them out of the way so I can finish raking lol

 

[Fancychooklady]

I planted 1/2 dozen silver birch trees last week. Sticky beaks had their heads in the hole as I was digging. Lucky I didn't lop anyone's head off.

 

[appps]

Hi guys!

I have a little silkie who i'm trying to get to eat some treats i gave her some meal-worms today and she just stared at them i've tried lettuce, strawberries, grass but yet all she eats are the pellets! The other chooks are gobble gutses especially with meal-worms, she's about 12 weeks old will this change or is there something i can do to make her start eating something other than pellets?

Thank so much!  

My silkie and silkie crosses were the same. Maybe its a breed thing.

They did end up learning from our other chooks though I found the best way to get them started was take some pellets and add hot water till it crumbles up to a mash Cool to just warm then add some of your dinner leftovers and mix together. Mine loved that and it got them used to eating other things.

 

[TheChookPatch]

Chookpatch, this is how to get an egg color chart, I think the post is down the page a bit.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...sion-pictures-are-welcome/46650#post_12011942

Thanks rexy, I ordered one last night from the Marans club of America
Beautiful photos of your animals everyone, and Luke I laughed out loud at your egg squishing luck!

 

[rexy]

Thanks rexy, I ordered one last night from the Marans club of America
Beautiful photos of your animals everyone, and Luke I laughed out loud at your egg squishing luck!

A little birdy told me that you are hatching.. How is it going? (I have an ulterior motive for asking)

 

[TheChookPatch]

My rcom went really well apart from a handful, the crap piece of poop yellow thing went/is going really badly. I should have returned it when I had the chance but they were going to make me pay for postage so I just kept it and thought I would give it a proper test. I'll just use it for emergencies now I think. And my quail eggs in my other rcom are going great, I candled quite a few (not all) and only found 2 not working and all the air cells were pretty good, I was hoping for a 50% hatch so I'm quite hopeful that I actually will get that many