suggestions for Chicken Treats/ alt to mash?

[LuckyCluckyCA]

I have my hens on mash. I only have 2 little bantams. They sometimes eat it. LOL I toss in some chicken scratch they love it. I toss in grubs and hey this is fun. Tried blackberries, NOPE, Tried strawberries NOPE. Tried a part of a tangerine and it was a hit, but then I read not to give them citris. Romaine Lettuce, Nope. Broccoli, NOPE. I have a bird in the house in isolation and it doesnt seem that shes eating much. got her some canned silkworms snails and grasshoppers. So far she declined silkworm preferring instead to eat banana with peanutbutter on it. I put a video of it on

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10206079861072798

Oh and they were OK with grapes, didn't care for apples.

What do you like to give yours?

 

[sylviethecochin]

When mine are free-ranging, they don't need treats. They're already feeding themselves better than I could manage. They love to steal my blueberries and strawberries.

During the fall (when they're stealing everything out of the garden, so we lock them up) I pick wild apples down the road and they love them. They'll go crazy for cabbage and tomatoes. Duck eggs are a hit. Overgrown corn is a hit. They'll eat sugar beets, but they aren't nuts for them. Blackberry or elderberry seeds and mush (the leftovers from jelly) are received with pleasure. So are the leavings from making applesauce.

Sometimes, I smash up acorns, and they'll pick through them.

In other words, your chickens are ridiculously picky.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

My chickens (and I'm sure it isn't just mine) love meat. Any kind.
They go crazy for beef, pork, turkey, chicken, fish, whatever is left over. Even when I catch a raccoon, I grill it and feed it to the chickens.

I hear a lot of people on this forum say they feed mash. I don't have anywhere to buy mash - not that I want it.
All feed stores around here carry either pellets or crumbles.
Is your feed actually mash or is it crumbles?

 

[sylviethecochin]

I hear a lot of people on this forum say they feed mash. I don't have anywhere to buy mash - not that I want it.
All feed stores around here carry either pellets or crumbles.

Yeah. The dust gets everywhere, and my chickens waste so much of it. Plus, I have to keep water nearby, because they start choking it down and wheezing.

Nope, it's pellets for me.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Usually mash is just for caged layers. The feed is carried down a conveyor past all the cages.
Mash is very finely ground. Otherwise it is pelletized, then if crumbles are desired, they run the pellets through a crumbler. That still binds up all the added nutrients into the product.

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

Very fine like brown sugar consistency

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

Well they started off w a feed that looked like a bunch of grain and they didn’t want that at dell. They are city chickens in a coopband a run. However the dog broke into that first food spilled a ton on the dirt outside their run so I’ve been pulling up big clumps and tossing the grass w dirt etc in and they peck at the roots. And they have sod in there

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

She got out of icu in the house and is eating fine in her coop! Ty