Need to increase Protine intake

[emsdial911]

What do you feed you chickens to increase their protine intake?

 

[Moxiechick]

Scrambled eggs, plain low fat yogurt, and sunflower seeds. A couple of times, I also mixed in ground up dog kibble in oatmeal and once they had some leftover hamburger.

 

[scbatz33]

What % are they getting now? Why are you concerned with increasing the level?

 

[Cindiloohoo]

meat scraps, well cooked legumes, sunflower seeds, worms, bugs etc. etc.

 

[briteday]

gamebird starter

 

[klmclain1]

I've given mine canned cat food...they loved it! If anyone knows a reason I shouldn't give them this, please tell me. We've had the cans for about 6 months since our cat died. I figured once a week wouldn't hurt and may even be beneficial for my "tween" chicks...(not yet laying).

 

[rungirl]

Chickens are OMNIVORES, of course they can eat meat and they like it. They are not vegetarians by nature and there is no reason to force them to be.

-Just my humble opinion.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Leftover meat, chicken and turkey carcassas, low-fat high protein yogurt, dark leafy greens, freeranging for bugs, meat trimmings. My girls eat everything. The question is why do you feel they need more protein? Are their feathers looking raggedy and dull? Your feed should have enough protein in it. I feed extra protein during winter and when they are molting. Or when there is leftover meat that nobody wants to eat anymore and its still good!

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

I don't know about your chickens, but one source for my chickens is wild MICE that move in to their henhouse.


OF COURSE I know that isn't the best source of protein for them to eat.


And yes, I do keep their coop clean, and try to keep the mice out. I have a Tin Cat that I bought from Lehman's (a metal trap that is safe and easy to use and will not harm the chickens in any way), and I catch a lot of the mice using that Tin Cat.


And I have put glue traps in their feeder trough after they have gone to sleep at night, and gone out there to gather the glue traps up before I go to bed. That catches some of the mice, too.


But my house is right near a community drainage ditch, and the coop had to be built less than 20 feet from that ditch. And with the nice, warm environment inside the chicken coop and all that yummy food, the mice move in faster than I can exterminate them.


But my chickens are very happy to help keep the mouse population down by catching -- and eating -- the rodents.


I wish it were different, but I guess it's just another form of food to them...

 

[perchie.girl]