Good treats for baby chicks?

[dustyrose11]

Well... I fed my 1 weekers yogurt but i really had to introduce it to them by mixing it with food I know it sounds weird but take about a 1/4 cup of yogurt and 1/4 cup of food and mix until it seems all together it will look like wet food and sould stick together if not add more food... My baby's loved it!!

 

[Sunshine2000]

don't grapes kill them? Or do you peel of the skin??

 

[chickenfreak101]

I think you just have to peel the skin.

Meal worms are great!

 

[tymimo]

I gave my chickens whole grapes today. As I threw them in I remember thinking "should I be cutting these in half?" But before I had time my Welsummer swallowed one whole. I thought she was a goner but after a few neck twists I later figured must have been the grape being crushed in her crop she swallowed a second. She still running around hours later so I would say you don't need to peel, or cut, your grapes.

 

[julierendonthg]

cool treats!

 

[billfields]

I gave my chickens whole grapes today. As I threw them in I remember thinking "should I be cutting these in half?" But before I had time my Welsummer swallowed one whole. I thought she was a goner but after a few neck twists I later figured must have been the grape being crushed in her crop she swallowed a second. She still running around hours later so I would say you don't need to peel, or cut, your grapes.

Think mother hen...have you sever seen one cut up seed or peal a grape. Or anything else? Baby chicks are built to eat whatever their mother finds..bugs, seeds, grapes...

 

[Sundancer59]

My neighbor has some grape vines. She has yet to get a grape for herself, but the chickens will jump up in the air and pick them then run off and eat them, she has very happy, healthy chickens................as I said she herself has "no grapes"
And I am not laughing as ours have just cleared our Blueberry bush!

 

[theawesomechick]

Hi, another newbie here, what do you guys say on fresh veggies from our garden, raw?

 

[theawesomechick]

Oh, and a note on the grapes, I once heard someone say that chickens can't eat the grape seed, but search it up and see!

 

[donrae]

Hi, another newbie here, what do you guys say on fresh veggies from our garden, raw?

My birds live on garden scraps or seconds much of the summer and fall. Summer squash, greens, tomatoes, pumpkins, winter squash, whatever I grow they eat. I don't cut anything up, that's what their beaks are for. I've seen a hen swallow a mostly grown mouse whole, I'm thinking they're fine with produce. I do have my sons smash hard shelled things like pumpkins or winter squash, just to let the birds know there are goodies inside. Plus, kid+baseball bat+ pumpkin=laughing for me!