What treat did your chickies get today?

[For The Love of Peeps]

Oatmeal & Corn!

 

[Patricia Jane]

Oatmeal this morning and cabbage this afternoon.

 

[leadwolf1]

Cantaloupe and oatmeal for breakfast then a romaine heart for afternoon snack. Some peas, fresh from the garden and some whole grain bread as a bedtime snack

Some days I wish I was one of my chickens

 

[Buff-Island-Australorp]

My chickens got a HUGE treat this morning. I picked about (5) five gallon buckets full of sweet corn from my garden. I didn't do too good of a job keeping the silks sprayed and protected from the moths, so about 95% of each ear of corn had either a small or a large worm in it. I don't really mind sharing my sweet corn with the worms....they only eat the top end of each ear. I saved all the worms, and when I finished getting the corn shucked, I took an extremely large amount of them out to their run. This was the first time I haven't seen the chickens running after what one of them had. There were so many to go around, they all had enough for themselves. I would assume they got their weekly ration of protein in about 10 minutes time.
I still have 4 more rows to pick in a couple weeks, so I'm actually hoping for the same thing. Next year, I'll work harder to reduce the amount of infestation. This year though....is just the circle of life!!!!

 

[gale65]

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I can't find mealworms at our walmart. What department are they in?

Yesterday we bought a fresh pineapple so today I decided to let the chicks try one of the trimmings from it. I wish I hadn't thrown the rest in the composter because they ate it! I didn't think they would. I also gave them some apple and oats.

 

[classicsredone]

Ours got some frozen veggies, ice to peck at and sit on, and later on half of my hamburger patty.

 

[jhook1997]

I'm new to chickens but I'm wondering about all the "snacks" I was told that too many snacks and the wrong kind of snacks would mess up egg production.?????

 

[classicsredone]

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They can if you feed to much junk. Healthy snacks are fine, and generally are kept at less than 10% of their diet. I don't feed scratch for example, and instead feed BOSS because it is higher in nutrients.

 

[hfd3008]

We give our chickens green leaves to pick at, they also love bird seed and dried meal worms.

 

[Animalian]

My girls got greek yogurt with molasses and flax seeds to celebrate the fact that my older hen laid a random egg today! Had to praise her somehow, so they had a yogurt party!

Oh and I also started a meal worm farm for them today, so more tasty treat's are coming!!