What treat did your chickies get today?

[ShinShien]

I must have the most finicky hens ever.

I just got them recently, not together; Bubbi & Bertha.

Tonight they got chopped cucumber, grapes and strawberries. They barely ate any of it.

Bubbi also doesn't like oats, sunflower seeds or peanuts.

I remember when growing up having chickens, we basically had a bucket under the sink for all edible waste and all our birds LOVED it all... these two... I've never seen anything like them.

Are they ex-battery hens? Ex's don't usually know to eat anything, except layer mash, crumbles. Teaching ex-batteries to eat different foods is a challenge all to itself sometimes.

Today, they got a handful of sunflower, safflower and sunflower seed hearts and a warm bowl of porridge *layer feed dust and water*. Thinking about offering the babies some yogurt soup.

 

[cherlmerlchick]

I didn't have much in the way of leftovers. Today, I cut some red and green kale (from what is left of my garden) and also some leftover plain cooked rice....they loved it.

 

[DLV58]

there's not much with the gardens all done and cleaned up for winter

so the girls get boss, which they luv

I'll be giving them some cracked corn for the first time

when it gets a bit colder next month

 

[Kelsie2290]

bread, field corn on the cob, apples

 

[KentuckyMom]

our box turtle will eat cat food & tomatos. all veggies..

Thank you. This one is so tiny ( the size of a quarter) that it looks like a toy. It appears to be nibbling though and moving around.
Today my chickens got leftover bread crusts and fresh picked grass and clovers.

 

[KentuckyMom]

http://www.boxturtlesite.info/diet.html http://turtlepuddle.org/american/boxcare.html A couple of good sites about what to feed pet box turtles. It is always fun to find them, funny thing is our dogs are usually scared of them for some reason.

Thank you for the website! I'll be looking at it!

 

[JetR]

Are they ex-battery hens? Ex's don't usually know to eat anything, except layer mash, crumbles. Teaching ex-batteries to eat different foods is a challenge all to itself sometimes.

Today, they got a handful of sunflower, safflower and sunflower seed hearts and a warm bowl of porridge *layer feed dust and water*. Thinking about offering the babies some yogurt soup.

I honestly don't really know anything about them. Bubbi was found wandering the neighborhood alone. I went door to door to find her owner and even put signs, a CL ad and called the shelter. No one claimed her. She is still very going from what I can tell. Bertha was a CL buy. Told she is 2 years old and was being picked on. That's about all I know. I was told she eats anything' but I am finding that to not be true.

 

[Highcotton]

Mine got oysters today along with left over yellow rice with mushrooms and peppers. We had our first oyster stew of the season. There were a few oysters left in the bottom of the pot. I put them in a pan in the run and they were fun to watch. They didn't peck at them or investigate. They would run in and snatch the oyster from the pan and run off to eat it, usually with another hen chasing them.

 

[KentuckyMom]

Today mine had leftover pork and beans and a few tiny green peppers and split tomatoes from the last of my plants that I cleared out today.

 

[hen madame]

I gave my girls warm oatmeal...I'm making some for them every morning since it started turning cold...I want them to have something warm.