So I just tried a little yogurt for the first time with my birds...

[kssilkiemama]

Not sure how this is going to go but I gave them a few tablespoons in a bowl to see if they would eat it. I peeked from the window of the coop to watch and I only witnessed one brave soul trying it out. They flung it out of their beak so I put some grape tomatoes on the top of it to get them to picking at it and try it. We shall see how this goes. It had expired yesterday so I figured they could enjoy some of it to see how they like it. I have never given any to my birds before but thought, why not?

 

[Leighe]

Not sure how this is going to go but I gave them a few tablespoons in a bowl to see if they would eat it. I peeked from the window of the coop to watch and I only witnessed one brave soul trying it out. They flung it out of their beak so I put some grape tomatoes on the top of it to get them to picking at it and try it. We shall see how this goes. It had expired yesterday so I figured they could enjoy some of it to see how they like it. I have never given any to my birds before but thought, why not?

My babies love yogurt and cottage cheese! It's so funny lookin at their faces with all these "mustaches" and then they gotta go wipe the ground, lol

 

[PennyM]

My girls do too, especially on a hot day!

 

[theoldchick]

I'm not a yogurt fan because the sugar/carbo content. Too much can cause a sour crop. A normal healthy bird, though, should enjoy yogurt on a rare occasions.

 

[Leighe]

I'm not a yogurt fan because the sugar/carbo content. Too much can cause a sour crop. A normal healthy bird, though, should enjoy yogurt on a rare occasions.

Agreed. My girls get it once a month but you'd think they were eating chicken "caviar", lol

 

[barred2rock]

The lactose in dairy products like yogurt chickens can not digest properly. Yogurt is not good for chickens the probiotics in yogurt are what's good. You'd be better off offering fermented feed, poultry probiotics or even kefir (the byproduct of kefir grains "eating" the lactose in milk).

 

[Folly's place]

There's no reason to feed dairy products to chickens! Mary

 

[chickens really]

Chickens do not need any dairy.....Not sure where the yogurt feeding ever came from?.....

 

[tigger19687]

Mine didn't like it at all, but ate all the damn cherries I put out.
One I think ate so many cherries that the poo was NASTY !
Or maybe it was a combo of cherries and yogurt.

 

[chickens really]

Mine didn't like it at all, but ate all the damn cherries I put out.
One I think ate so many cherries that the poo was NASTY !
Or maybe it was a combo of cherries and yogurt.

I would guess the yogurt.....