Chicken food

[acklem]

My chicken does not like to eat chicken food. She likes corn, onions and tomatoes. How do I know... I set down a whopper and she started to gobble it up. I called the person I got the chicken from and he said that he fed the chicken table scraps. Should I do the same or leave out chicken food until it gets hungry enough to eat it?

 

[gritsar]

Have the proper chicken feed available at all times and don't feed treats - corn/scratch, table scraps, veggies, etc., until she gets hungry enough to eat her feed. That's what you do if you want maximum egg production.
You only have the one chicken?

 

[Mountain Peeps]

WELCOME TO BYC!!

Like gritsar said, if there is nothing but chicken feed around to eat, they'll have to eat it.

 

[RonP]

A whopper does not have all the nutrition a chicken requires for a healthy diet.

Great as a treat as you have noticed...

 

[acklem]

Hi. Thanks for the advice. My daughter rescued a chicken from a bike shop owner who couldn't take care of it at his shop anymore. During the day the chicken would free range about town and return to the bike shop at night. He had a trap he used to catch it each night and would feed it scraps but he got tired of never being able to go away for any time. He gave the chicken to my daughter. We live in the country and she made a coop for it It would not eat the chicken food and ate up the whooper. Don't know what to do with it. So I will try some different types of food. Maybe the food I got was not what it wanted. Thanks.

 

[acklem]

She does do want the chicken food but maybe she will eat it if she gets hungry enough. She is looking a little scrawny. Thanks.

 

[acklem]

Hi. She ate the entire thing meat and all. Wish the previous person could have found a way to keep her but more nutrition sounds good. Thanks.

 

[gritsar]

Hi. She ate the entire thing meat and all. Wish the previous person could have found a way to keep her but more nutrition sounds good. Thanks.

She'll eat it, just has to get hungry enough. You can slowly go back to feeding her treats after she's had a chance to get used to real chicken feed.
She can have meat, bread, all the things in a whooper, beware of too many onions if she is laying. Also, offer oyster shell for calcium needs.

I asked if she was an only child because chickens are flock animals and really do better with a couple of friends.

 

[acklem]

She is an only child and a handful. I'll try to oyster shells, good advice. She only lays every couple of days maybe she will feel better if she eats some.

 

[gritsar]

She is an only child and a handful. I'll try to oyster shells, good advice. She only lays every couple of days maybe she will feel better if she eats some.

Any chance of getting her a few friends, maybe two? She'll do much better in a flock environment.
Not going to count mine right now, two broodies and a bator full plus chicks and juveniles besides the adults, but I have always noticed that they do buddy up. My old hens each have a special friend, even the chicks develop a friendship with another bird from an early age.
Just for what it's worth.