Treats for 5 week old chicks? Ones that don't move?

[aidenbaby]

Noodles make for great "worms". I use whole grain or Barilla Plus noodles for our spaghetti or alfredo but I save 2-4 noodles for the chicks.

My chicks also like dry oats for a treat.

 

[Suziers]

Mine go crazy over meal worms and crickets. We will drop one in for each. They will each grab one and then proceed to run around the brooder screaming their fool heads off as if the others were chasing and trying to steal their bug.

Mine like dried oatmeal, flax meal, brown rice cereal, wheat germ and yogurt.

 

[thekla]

mine are various ages from 1-2 weeks and they love broccoli (small pieces cut from the tips) carrot peels, red seedless grapes, yougert and scrambled eggs with cheese (all the vegies and fruit chopped very fine) they didn't know what the yougert was and didn't want to try it until I drpped some broccoli into the dish - then when they grapped the broc they tasted the yogurt and decided it was good and now it it plain. I think the key for young ones is SMALL amounts - you don't want to spoil their apetites for the feed that has the protien that they need - this is just a treat, not a full meal

 

[chickenhick]

OK...so what is wrong with my babies? I offered them worms - they looked at me as if to say.."YOU eat it, sister". I offered them bananas, and they ran screaming in terror.......I offered them delilcious cornbread...they pecked at my rings instead...tell me...am I raising dummies?

 

[ziggy]

It takes them a while to get used to the new treats.
When I first gave mine grapes, the grapes (and most everything else) just sat there until I tossed them. Now (1 year old) they go nuts for grapes and most everything else.

 

[Tala]

They're afraid of anything new at first. Try again next week

 

[m2wandc]

I got about 6 crickets at the pet shop (little ones) and when I mentioned that we were going to feed the bugs to the chickens my 1 (nearly 2) year old went crazy sad on me...NO!!!! BUG ME ME BUG she kept saying...so I got some meal worms, put the crickets in a 'bug catcher container" my son had...she did the same with the meal worms, she put the big bad block on the baby chick when it went to investigate the worm...soooo we had to do the bug thing when she wasn't looking...my son thinks it's great fun!


HOWEVER, point to my ramble...I checked the crickets and they all got OUT except for 2...so I might have 4 crickets roaming in my house

soooo I advise to stick with the worms that can't escape until you are OUTSIDE! LOL

My chickens have had a chance at egg & plain yogurt, not liking either, but we'll keep trying...might give carrot peelings a try? Or an apple...my kids NEVER finish their apples and are funky about eating 'slices' so I often have half eaten apple looking for a hungry mouth.

 

[pne123]

I have not feed my 1wk olds (first chickens) any treats yet but I have had some reptiles and a tarantula when I was a kid and you are supposed to pull one or both back legs off the cricket so they can not get away.

 

[NotTheMomma]

Love cheerios, and any other stale cereal that I'm throwing out.

Strawberries!! Grapes, their starter mash with milk, cabage leaves they didn't eat but had fun pecking it and carrying it around. Starter feed from my hand, or sprinkled on the ground, left over bread soaked in milk, carrots shredded, scrambled eggs!

Those things were the favorites with anything soaked in milk being the bestest!

I've thrown other table scraps out and now they ALL come running when they see me coming with the bucket!

My chicks range from 3 weeks, to almost 7 weeks. They also LOVE getting their own grass, and bugs, and when its cool, they stay in the run pecking and scratching away.

 

[kidd42]

We started giving our girls treat's at about a week old. I had started chick grit by then, and would buy crickets that come in a little box. The girls would (still do, cause they learned very quickly what was in store) peck on the box and wait for the crickets to poke their heads out of the little "pop door" hole in the box. When they would stick out a head, one of the girls would grab it and take off running with it. Very entertaining to sit and watch. But when you give them something new they always act like your trying to poison them.