The highest value treats?

[Bill Atkeison]

Our chickens like meal worms and night crawlers whenever I dig a few for them …

 

[dunnmom]

I used mealworms for training treats like a lot of other people. When I didn't have mealworms on hand, I used BOSS, or old fashioned oats.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Grubbles = dried black soldier fly larvae

Live meal worms = raised in USA!

http://grubblyfarms.com/

Mine love ripping into leafy greens. They also love duckweed and water hyancinth. They go nuts over june bugs, earthworms, and grubs. I also give them black oil sunflower seeds a few times a week. The goopy seeds from musk melons are also a favorite of theirs, but they aren't as excited about the flesh and rind. I pull the shuck back from ears of sweet corn, take off the silk, and tie them to the hardware cloth on the side of the run with strips of the shuck and they peck them clean in no time. Mine aren't too keen on whole fruits, or the tougher raw vegetables. I've been known to chop kitchen scraps up in the ninja, and they'll eat it that way. I think they're a little on the lazy side. They also love scrambled egg.

I'm not sure if mine are lazy or picky. They eat apples but only the thin skinned ones will they peck through the skin. A red delicious I have to cut in half. Then I find shriveled up apple halves with the hard part of the core and the skin.

 

[Christine972]

My chickens love raisins! But I am concerned that raisins may be too sugary, so I don't give them very many at a time.

 

[lilmillefleur]

Our chickens like cheese. and bread.
But mostly mealworms.

 

[JaeG]

Mine will do anything for hulled sunflower seeds. They are easy and clean to have in your pocket as training treats.

 

[MartinsPoultry]

Wild bird Suet cakes mine go bananas for them.
Wild berry, Peanut butter, Black Sunflower and more. I freeze them for really hot days and hang them in the suet baskets for hours and hours of fun.

 

[Fallenone05]

Wild bird Suet cakes mine go bananas for them.
Wild berry, Peanut butter, Black Sunflower and more. I freeze them for really hot days and hang them in the suet baskets for hours and hours of fun.

I was wondering about suet feeders. How often do you give them to your birds?

 

[Lin Klein]

What are the highest value treats for chickens? I have been using meal worms, but are there any other treats that chickens go bonkers over even more?

My chickens and my ducks like the freeze dried crickets. They are not big fans of the meal worms.

 

[MartinsPoultry]

Not to often because of high fat content. Maybe once every two months, winter time a little more.