Treats anyone?

[the Precious Ladies]

My chickies love to eat grass, eat weeds, eat ALOT of feed... but no treats. I've tried cooked plain spagetti noodles, plain yogurt and bread ( i think they might have ate the bread though) Do you have any suggestion?

 

[Cat Water]

I give them cracked corn and the occasional bunch of grapes or leftover vegetables.

 

[Lisa202]

Are they young? Have you introduced these treats to them several times? Mine, when they were little and still now at 20 weeks, take a couple tries before they try new things.

Mine love oatmeal (I just mix old fashioned oats with some very hot water) cracked corn and cottage cheese they love too. And they love love love wax worms. The love pumpkin and squash, sprouts and spinach/salad greens.

 

[Kaceyx73]

When I first brought my little piranhas home from the post office they went straight to their feed trough and water. I tried letting them sample some bird seed, and while they would eat some it seemed more of a curiosity. Same with most everything I tried except for one. At about 2 weeks, the first time they saw bread in my hand, they attacked the hardware cloth top on the brooder trying to get to my hand with a piece of loaf bread in it.... and that's before they even tried it!!!

Now they eat almost anything I give them. But bread is still their favorite. In addition to their laying pellets, I scatter bird seed w/ wheat on the ground in the afternoon. Sometimes I take leftover cream of wheat or oatmeal, plus any leftover veggies. God forbid they see me with a plastic bag in hand... they know that means BREAD!!! I sit on my bench and pass out pieces of bread, and more often than not I'll have at least 1-2 in my lap.

Bread sure makes me feel popular as a chicken parent. Sure they love watermelon and most everything I give them... but nothing turns my girls into frenzied berserkers like simple loaf bread!!!

 

[seminolewind]

I've enticed mine with french toast. Soak some bread in milk and egg, and a bit of sugar, and cook it a bit (I use the microwave). It's a new taste but still bread.

I also give mine horse sweet feed as a snack, it's better nutrition than scratch

 

[2DogsFarm]

Raisins

They are Chicken Crack

 

[mrsbos]

Funny about the bread, our family has always brought our leftover bread to the duck pond to feed the ducks/geese/sea gulls, but I never thought to offer it to my chickens. We always have the bread heels that just get thrown away. I can't believe I haven't let our chickens try it. They LOVE pasta though, and grapes, and turn into ravenous pirahnas when they even think I have some mealworms.

 

[macdoogle]

Meal worms for sure. As chicks they would get one and start running around without eating it to keep it away from the others. Bread is also a favorite and BOSS is what I use to get them back in the run if they've been freeranging.

 

[ductmate]

try iceburg lettuce my 3 hens jump at the bag when they see me with it. and its fairley cheap and good for them

 

[duckking]

Romaine, cabbage, dandelion leaves, sometimes broccoli, grass, MEALWORMS dried or alive, crickets, peas on occasion, apples, cooked squash, grapes. I haven't tried raisins! Mine turn their noses up at BOSS! I've tried it a few times.......silly chickens.