Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

There's an awful lot of white on those baby wings. Perhaps Ned is indeed Ned...by the end of this week we should know for sure.

Lucky will be a little longer.

Looks like those two are full of pasta.

 

[GhislaineDel]

Good morning everyone!

So far the only treats I have given our chicks are edible weeds.

 

[BY Bob]

That first pasta was so cute. I love how they fight each other over the same piece. Don't feel to bad, mine were maybe 4 days old when they first got dried cranberries or raisons. They got their first taste of mac n cheese a day or two later. Now they mob me when i step outside expecting some kind of treat, which i'm all to happy to oblige.

That's how you train them to like you, right? Bribe them with treats!

 

[BY Bob]

I'm at 23 at the moment. But I currently have 3 hens sitting on 3 dozen or so of eggs...I may be insane...

I am a little concerned for you.

 

[BY Bob]

AWE!!! So cute! Lucky is a girl after my own heart! She just charged right in there and grab that noodle and away she went!

She has figured this compete for food thing out already.

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning everyone!

So far the only treats I have given our chicks are edible weeds.

They are adorable!

 

[RoyalChick]

That's how you train them to like you, right? Bribe them with treats!

So I think this is one of my issues - without a mom to teach them what is good to eat mine aren't interested in treats. I have tried a variety of things like strawberries and the little grains in scratch grain (I admit I have not tried pasta or mac-n-cheese), but they seem to only be interested in their commercial chick food and the odd bug that wanders in. Maybe I need to catch them some live bugs.
How can I bribe them if they are above bribery?!

 

[BY Bob]

So I think this is one of my issues - without a mom to teach them what is good to eat mine aren't interested in treats. I have tried a variety of things like strawberries and the little grains in scratch grain (I admit I have not tried pasta or mac-n-cheese), but they seem to only be interested in their commercial chick food and the odd bug that wanders in. Maybe I need to catch them some live bugs.
How can I bribe them if they are above bribery?!

Mealy worms should work. You need to put the treat down and let them taste it in their own. Their curiosity should work. And they should try whatever it is if it lays there long enough. Blue berries worked with the latest crop of hens for me.

If you want to be real clever, I can send you a video of Sydney clucking the "food is here" sound on a loop and you could play that as you put food down for them. Essentially becoming their mom. Let me know. I would be glad to try it.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

I am a little concerned for you.

Honestly, that many will not hatch. I'm going to try and candle tonight, just so I can remove the duds. Once I see how many are fertile and growing I'll decide who gets to keep what.

 

[RoyalChick]

Mealy worms should work. You need to put the treat down and let them taste it in their own. Their curiosity should work. And they should try whatever it is if it lays there long enough. Blue berries worked with the latest crop of hens for me.

If you want to be real clever, I can send you a video of Sydney clucking the "food is here" sound on a loop and you could play that as you put food down for them. Essentially becoming their mom. Let me know. I would be glad to try it.

Yes! Let's try that. I have tried tid-bitting with my finger nail. It worked to an extent. Combined with a 'food is here' cluck that might do it! And in any case that would be very cool to try.
Blueberries is next on my list to try.
Dotty graduated to the next rung down of the ladder - which is big news because it proves that she can actually leap the rungs not just know where home is.