Had a Yogurt Storm, need container ideas...

[clay]

I have to agree with lurky. Pull up a chair and enjoy! Our 5 year old daughter will eat half a cup of yogurt and not want any more. So, put the half-empty cup in the yard and LAUGH and LAUGH!

 

[AngieChick]

I mixed mine up with starter and stuck it to the walls of their rubbermaid bin brooder. I also took an ice cream dish (the kind with a pedestal) and put the yogurt mix in it, then put the dish in a plastic butter tub. Now that they are bigger I just put yogurt in a short fat jelly jar and set it on the ground for them.

 

[JennsPeeps]

I put mine in any container that's pretty short & flat: saucers, tupperware lids, recycled plastic containers.

When they were smaller they walked in it and tracked it everywhere. Now that they're bigger they eat the yogurt and lick the plate clean before anyone gets a chance to put a dainty little toe in it.

They still flick it EVERYWHERE though.

 

[HeadHen]

Thanks for all the great ideas. I agree it was very comical, I was just frustrated that by they time some of them figured out it was a treat it wasn't edible (from shavings and poo) so nobody got any.

 

[motorboy]

I use my wife’s heavy glass mixing bowl, but I like the idea of those heavy rubber feed pan/bowls. It will also keep me out of trouble. When we have old soup or gravy I put it in a bowl with chunks of old bread chunks, it makes it more manageable for them to eat.

 

[Maryallison77]

Thanks for posting this!

I was thinking about the yogurt, but not so sure now. Now my oldest chickens are 3 1/2 months old now and they love watermelon! They were acting like "chickens" at 1st, but once they tried it they loved it! GOOD LUCK!

 

[ears73]

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This is such a great idea!!!! Instead of scraps all over the place, now there is a place for scraps.... Love it!

 

[keljonma]

When we first started feeding yogurt we put it on a spoon.

We used it to train the birds to follow us. We have 2 fenced acres the flock forages from sunup to sundown.

Other than that, putting it with oats or their feed is an easy way to feed yogurt.

Our oldest birds are over 2 years old, and will still follow us anywhere if we show up with yogurt on a spoon.

 

[HeadHen]

thank you all so much! because of your help my chicks are smitten with their yogurt and eating it all!

They are so much fun

Important factors were:
Not tippable
Not so large and flat that they can run through it
Lip to roost on while they eat

With 26 birds a loaf size glass baking pan did the trick!
Never would have thought of it without your help.

 

[CritterHill]

What I would like to know is how, with beaks, they manage to LICK THE PLATE CLEAN. I am always amazed at how squeaky clean the yogurt plate is when they are done!