Trying to find a treat my chicks will like

[KarynVA]

Success! My daughter and I gave them some bread, which they preferred after we rolled it into tiny balls. That was popular.

OneHappyRooster, thanks for the info about fruit - I will definitely try whole blueberries next. We have a lot of them ripening in the garden now.

 

[The Happster]

It's actually just fun to experiment. They all have different tastes. One of my hens loved radish leaves. Another would turn her beak up at them.
I like to make mine oats with hot water, wait until it's cool enough to eat without burning their beaks and then give them it. Especially good in winter. In winter I sometimes do that with their layers food too. We don't eat much egg, so sometimes I feed it back to them. When the time comes around we have hundreds of blackberries come out where I am. I go round and pick them some.
I'm also thinking about growing a patch of lettuce or some tomato plants just for them.
Have fun feeding your chickens!

 

[LadyAchee]

Scrambled eggs are a very hot commodity here

 

[Ra_]

Mine go crazy over a number of things.
I gave them a big slice off the end of a cantaloupe yesterday and they hardly touched it. When I came back a few hours later, they had stripped it down to the husk. They love bread. They love sunflower microgreens that I grow for them. The love the hard boiled egg and cabbage that I finely mince and mix into their breakfast every other day.
Their favorite might be fresh corn. I cook it for 55 seconds and then I slice each row of kernels right down the middle so the 2 and 3 week old babies can pick it apart.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

I've been wetting my chick food every day, to get my 3 younger ones to eat it, as they were horribly skinny, and they love it! I also do it to keep them hydrated, and finger feed it to my rooster. Yours may like it 2.

 

[Chicklady707]

I am trying to introduce a treat or two for my 4-5 week old Golden Comet chicks. I would like to start building a positive association for them with me handling them and I read that providing them a treat before I pick them up, and then again after I have held them, will build trust and positive rapport.

So far, I have tried small bits of watermelon (at room temperature) - no interest. I rolled the bits of melon in their chick food and they pecked the food off and left the watermelon. Then I tried rolled oats lighlty coated with a thick greek yogurt (plain). They were a bit more interested in that but, still, their interest was short-lived.

Any ideas? Thanks.

My almost 3-week-old chicks love frozen peas thawed in warm water (drained).

 

[RebelChief]

I am trying to introduce a treat or two for my 4-5 week old Golden Comet chicks. I would like to start building a positive association for them with me handling them and I read that providing them a treat before I pick them up, and then again after I have held them, will build trust and positive rapport.

So far, I have tried small bits of watermelon (at room temperature) - no interest. I rolled the bits of melon in their chick food and they pecked the food off and left the watermelon. Then I tried rolled oats lighlty coated with a thick greek yogurt (plain). They were a bit more interested in that but, still, their interest was short-lived.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Freeze dried meal worms. I wish I had recorded just now. I was treating my hens and tossed about 20 in their pine shavings for them to find when they were scratching around and they went NUTS. That is the most active I've seen them since they came home Monday.

 

[Ra_]

I've been wetting my chick food every day.

I make big bowls of mash for all my birds every evening before dark.
They love it.