Share your chicken treat recipes!

[anngili]

I'll second the raisins suggestion. If you really want to watch some great chicken keep-away games, stick out a bowl of grapes that are cut in half! Mine go nuts over those and they are then too busy running away from the other chickens that they quit mobbing you. They will tend to beg for grapes in the future, though!
I handle mine somewhat frequently but they don't get treats until they behave themselves, though. I also try to feed them through the coop fence so that they don't equate getting outside with getting a treat from me. That may be helping with mine. I'm not sure if either of those factors keep them from mobbing me, but then I cheat; I also have a sheepdog that wants to herd them, so they're also busy keeping an eye on her instead of just on me.
Ann

 

[Promiselandfarm]

stuff right out of the garden.....they take the snack without even asking

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

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Thanks for the laugh

Sandee

 

[Kiwi Chicky]

Well I made a seed block for my chickies today

They loved it! I had to brake it up a bit so they each got a share.

Went back a few hours later and theres not a seed to be seen.

I used the wet bread to stick it all together. Added wheat, wild bird seed, peanuts, sultanas, oats and a little golden syrup (we didn't have any runny hunny)

Then baked it til it dried

I have very happy chickens

 

[SunshineSilkies]

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That's funny! My daughter thought it was so great to bring the chickens treats at first, but now as soon as they see her or hear her voice, they mob the door of the run so much that she gets a little scared to go in. (She's 5)

We've had to "delicately" condition them to back off a little bit.

From sunny Florida!

 

[wildorchid053]

i think mine loved the left over spagetti and the two meatballs. they ate if faster than any other treat.. except fresh corn on the cob

 

[mulia24]

em, I don't know about recipe, I also want to know more. in here, people like to just let their hen/roost at ground not at coop and then they sleep on trees every night, so the chicken eat worm from ground and food that throws (corn) to them everyday, since 3 years ago, people here like to feed them with (i don't know the english, it's called pelet here.) it is looks like grain in chocolate color and available even for chick that have just hatched. but I know that kind of food contain everything that we didn't know exactly what have been mixed with it (in the packages contain nutrition facts: calcium,vitamin,etc). I just stand by what I've feed my flock since I have chicken. I always only give them corn grain, "smashed corn"(means corn grain that have been made to be smaller in size), rice grain, rice,some kind of vegetables, and whatever we eat everyday that have surplus, oh and they did eating my banana' leaves(i will ask them to pay if my banana got little harvest

) and they like to searching worm in the soil . so I can sure they eat thing that I know exactly the good and the bad. and my flock always strong and healthy, I even never give my flock any kind of medicine or vaccine or whatever I found discussed on BYC and my flock even can survive harsh climate and rain and never get cold or something even when I went to another town for 2 days i don't have to give them eat and I always find them with stomach full of food without I give them food. they're very good food searcher, that's why their eggs price higher than the other. could i get some recipe that maybe could boost their eggs production?

 

[RocketDad]

My hens go nuts for this:

- Cooked meat scraps (trimmings, table scraping, bites the kids didn't finish...)

- Winter Squash seeds and guts (this is usually the largest bulk of the recipe)

- Fruit and veg trimmings, and anything starting to get wilty in the fridge (edible, but not "salad grade")

- Other things the kids didn't finish like oatmeal, applesauce

- I collect the ingredients in containers in the freezer until I have enough to make a batch.


I grind these things up with the KitchenAid sausage grinder attachment, mix it well, adding in well-crushed egg shells, and a handful of rolled oats and cornmeal to soak up any excess moisture.

I put about a half-cup into a snack-size ziplock, then freeze it. I give them one bag a week as a treat.

 

[chickenbottom]

i call this recipe quaker oats chickenmeal
i got about 2 cups mix it with water pop that sucker in the microwave and presto oat meal

 

[bigoakhunter]

Like Anngili said, Grapes. I have been thinking about cutting them in half and freezing them, then putting them in the bird suet cages hanging from inside of run. Might make a fun and cool summer time treat.