I agree. I try to choose healthy treats for them . I really like the company "treats for chickens" they have some really interesting treats mixed together like marigold petals, sea kelp, meal worms, oats, and tons of other really different healthy treats! I buy from them online. My birds love it! I also grow a mix of grasses and clovers for them with alfalfa, strawberry clover, red clover, flax, buckwheat, white clover, trefoil, and rye grass. They really go after that! I try hard to feed as nutritious as I can. I've switched over to a wonderful organic feed that has field peas and organic corn and organic wheat organic oats and barely and fish meal with alfalfa flaxseed sea kelp rice bran and wheat middlings it has lots of vitamins and added probotics as well. They really seem to love it. Since I switched they have gained more weight, feathers look shiney, I can see a real difference! I really worry about their nutrition because they are silkies and silkies can be prone to vitamin defiency as I found out. So I try my best to feed a diverse nutritional diet. I also supplement with extra vitamins in the water for one week a month. Birds can get defiency in vitamins if feed to many empty foods. I've had vitamin defiency in my flock before I think that's why I try so hard now for optimal nutrition.
I use some discretion though, like no junk food, my family eats pretty healthy though so there usually isnt a problem.
