What special care do you give your flock?

[ManOverBoard]

Apart from the feed and water, I feel like a lot of us each have our own special thing we do to take extra care of our flocks on a regular basis.
I thought it might be fun for us all to share.

For example, we give our girls a couple drops of organic oregano oil in their water.

What's the little extra tlc you give your flocks?

 

[50-45-1]

I am in northern michigan and winter here keeps the flock cooped. I feed a small flake of alfalfa hay. this gives them hours of scratching fun, and the tiny alfalfa leaves are packed with needed nutrients.
I also buy a large bag of deer carrots that is sold here in the fall. I will through 3 or 4 in a day. This also gives them something to peck at an is also very good for them. Added bonus is it keeps the egg yolks deep orange.

 

[ManOverBoard]

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I am in northern michigan and winter here keeps the flock cooped. I feed a small flake of alfalfa hay. this gives them hours of scratching fun, and the tiny alfalfa leaves are packed with needed nutrients.
I also buy a large bag of deer carrots that is sold here in the fall. I will through 3 or 4 in a day. This also gives them something to peck at an is also very good for them. Added bonus is it keeps the egg yolks deep orange.

Awesome!
Do your girls actually eat the hay or just the tiny tidbits that are all crushed up?
I've often thought of giving the girls horse treats.

 

[50-45-1]

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Awesome!
Do your girls actually eat the hay or just the tiny tidbits that are all crushed up?
I've often thought of giving the girls horse treats.

They just eat the small tiny leaves. The stems are left behind, and I rake it up and put it outside. Then the wild rabbits come at night and eat that! Seems nothing goes to waste.

 

[ManOverBoard]

They just eat the small tiny leaves. The stems are left behind, and I rake it up and put it outside. Then the wild rabbits come at night and eat that! Seems nothing goes to waste.

Love it!

 

[JAMarlow]

Do you mean other than kitchen scratch? Because they LOVE it when we bring out the small ice cream bucket with the discards of vegetable prep! For special things I go and sit in the coop and hand feed them very special treats. For which they go nuts.

 

[Scatty Hatti]

Here in UK we are not supposed to give kitchen waste...something about contamination (?). I do sometimes though, but its usually cabbage, courgettes and a bit of potato. But my girls do love sunflower seeds, so most days I will give them a very small amount hand fed. They actually like me doing this - if I scatter on the ground they dont eat them. So hand feeding really does make it a great together time.

 

[GracePoultry]

I like to add apple cider vinegar into their water and give scrambled eggs, especially on cold days!

 

[Callender Girl]

Year round, my girls love grapes -- not only to eat, but to use in spirited games of keep away, as one hen after another will steal a grape and run at full speed with the flock in close pursuit.

 

[JAMarlow]

Year round, my girls love grapes -- not only to eat, but to use in spirited games of keep away, as one hen after another will steal a grape and run at full speed with the flock in close pursuit.

LOL! Mine do the same thing! They go crazy about grapes.