How do you feed chicks treats, not what but how?

[DaughterOfEve]

how? toss scratch by hand around the run. For other treats, I have a shallow rectangular pan about 9x 13 for chopped fruit, greens, oatmeal or bread. some thing go over better if they are chopped fine.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I just give it to them in a pan, and they go nutty for it.

I mostly just give them, hard boiled eggs and scrambled eggs. And what ever else I have on hand at the moment.

 

[chicknerd]

Thank you all very much!!! Great ideas! I will remember the grit first!

Deb

 

[chickmaniac250]

at three weeks are you alowed to cut grapes in half and throw them in or not and also what about 2week olds?please i need this information...

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[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Oh, yes! Your chickens can have grapes! They'll LOVE IT!!!

 

[4 luv of eggs]

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Thank you for that! They DO bite and it does hurt. When my first girls were 3 weeks I gave egg yolks in the palm of my hand. Once Eloise(now Locke) found out he liked it he practically burrowed through my hand. Now if I have treats they snatch them out of my fingers so fast that I jerk my hand back and count my fingers. DH says they don't bite. DH is crazy.

I'd like to know how to hand feed them without feeding them my hand!

 

[gjpaddles]

My husband laughs at me, but I have a tray of Wheatgrass that I "trim" every morning for them for breakfast. I put the wheatgrass clippings on a plate. I have also given them lettuce, tomatoes, grapes, corn on the cob (that had been cooked). Mine are 6-7 weeks old. We give them worms when we find them too. I hope I get some healthy eggs in return someday. I know I'm silly but I just love them!

 

[StormyMoon]

I know you said not ( What ) but ( HOW ) lol

Well i have to tell you the what in order to get to the how ........

Any ways I got masa corn meal for making tortillas add a little water not where its mushy or anything but enough to where I can crumble it in my hand or make worm shapes out of it and place it in my hand they will come up and pick it out of my hand and some times they get very comfortable they will hop up on my leg and just eat it from my hand.
We do this in a small amount just a few large spoons of it cause there are 4 of them so basically they each get a spoon of it once a day...
They will be your best friend in the whole world if you give them this.

 

[chicknerd]

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I will have to try this. I have plenty of corn meal. Sounds great!!!

deb

 

[MommyToThree]

I give my chickens the trimings from veggies when I'm fixing dinner. Sometimes if something is so sale REALLY cheap I will get something just for them at the store. Last week cabbage was dirt cheap so I bought them a small head. I just rolled the whole thing into the coop and they went nuts. They really know how to eat! They sounded funny, whack, rip, gulp it down, whack, rip, gulp it down!! The also LOVE cantaloupe, apples grapes, tomatoes, strawberries, uncooked oatmeal, and weeds that we pick and toss to them. Once we had left over worms from fishing and we tossed them to the chickens and they went nuts!! They don't have any problems picking pieces off of larger things so just toss it in, I don't even have a pan for the things.