hungry chickens

[aart]

Pellets or crumble is nice because they can't pick out the stuff they like and leave the rest. The added vitamins and minerals are more thoroughly mixed in so they don't leave them on the bottom of the feeder.

They probably won't like it at first but leave them no alternative and eventually they will eat it.

Pullets lay smaller eggs for the first few, or more, months.......doesn't really have anything to do with how much they eat.

 

[enola]

Make them a wet mash out of the feed. They will eat like little piggies!

 

[aunt betty]

Hello, thanks again for replying.you have made me feel better. I've been and got some laying pellet food this morning.. They have turned their nose up at it but this is the third type of food I have bought so they will have to put up with it.. Trust me to get fussy chickens..

Cheers

Sue.

 

[aart]

Hello, thanks again for replying.you have made me feel better. I've been and got some laying pellet food this morning.. They have turned their nose up at it but this is the third type of food I have bought so they will have to put up with it.. Trust me to get fussy chickens..

Cheers

Sue.

All chicken can appear to be fussy, they don't like change.....
........it's up to the keeper to be persistent in coercing them to accept the change.

Wetting the pellets at first might help, if they refuse to eat them after having nothing else to choose from for 2-3 days, then wet them less and less.

 

[aunt betty]

Thanks again for the advice, I will try your suggestion.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I have even made mine oatmeal (not a lot of it) and mixed things in there that they need. I would suggest that since oatmeal is low in protein that you add some canned mackerel on occasion if you try this. Mine are pigs about it and gobble it up.

May work to get the bits they are leaving into them.

Babs

 

[enola]

I am always amazed when people say their chickens are picky eaters!! Mine are picky, too. . . If they pick it and it doesn't move, they will eat it. . . . If they pick it and it runs, they run it down and eat it! If whatever it is outruns them, it gets to live another day.

It is very easy for chickens to train their flock manager - moral of the story......

 

[RonP]

Hello, thanks again for replying.you have made me feel better. I've been and got some laying pellet food this morning.. They have turned their nose up at it but this is the third type of food I have bought so they will have to put up with it.. Trust me to get fussy chickens..

Cheers

Sue,

Hopefully soon you will differentiate between fussy and spoiled chickens.

In all my years, I have yet to have a fussy chicken...

 

[aunt betty]

Lol, lol.

 

[Naser]

Give them pellets. in the beginning they will not eat. then they will eat them, after they get used to pellets they will eat pellets even if you let them free range.