Treats?? what treats??

[the Precious Ladies]

My little chicks are 2 weeks old now- but they dont like treats!!! Ive tried giving them straberrys, spagettie noodles (cooked) and yogurt. they all dont like them except to step in them. (They have grit) how should i introduce treats then?

 

[LarryPQ]

Try some scrambled eggs and maybe a little bit of bread. NUMNUMNUM!

 

[gryeyes]

FOOLPROOF: mealworms.

 

[LarryPQ]

Good call!

Mealworms also provide added hilarity. Don't get the super mealworms unless you chop off their heads first.

 

[the Precious Ladies]

Thank you

do earthworms also work? or are they to big? we have alot in the garden, but i dont know...

 

[chandasue]

Small crickets... I actually feel sorry for the crickets. It's a massacre!

 

[abaldewin]

I may be wrong and I don’t know much so I probably am but I was told that mealworms can eat through the chickens stomach?

 

[berkeleysprings]

i hear the same thing about meal worms i give my chicks hard boild egg yoak as a treat or a very small amount of crumbeled caned corn .break it up though ,my chicks run away from worms , there such chickens

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[okieglory]

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i have never head that and on the treat thing on byc it suggests them and everyone i have talked to said they are great, so its fine i guess.

 

[domino7]

I give mine cracked corn. It's $8 for 50#. Just a handful here and there, and they follow me everywhere.