Anyone giving their littles treats? I gave the chicks the end of a pumpkin yesterday and a piece of watermelon today and they gobbled them up. I also gave them a little piece of dried out french bread one day. They pecked out all the innards and left the crust. They love mustard greens, dill, thyme, parsley and broccoli.
I start giving them treats as soon as they are outside. BUT, if they are still inside, I add grit with the treats. I have NO GRASS, just a dry desert for a yard. But I have lots of trees. I have tree that overhangs the baby coops, and they love the leaves. Any time we cut down branches, we put the whole branch in their runs. They pick them clean!! But we give all food scraps to all the pens. We have to divvy it out, since the girls do get jealous if they see one pen getting something and they don't get any.....