What treats will your chickens be getting for Christmas?

[ChookHappy]

Oatmeal, mealworms, and a seed bell.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

 

[organicfoltzfamilyfarm]

My girls love corn bread. I might give them a pan of corn bread and some meal worms....nummy!

 

[jojo54]

Their regular vegetables and greens and warm grain/oatmeal mixed with cooked fruit/vegetables. Oh yes, they also get grain for scratch. They eat like queens every day so really can't do any better on Christmas.

 

[organicfoltzfamilyfarm]

How do you prepare the oatmeal for the hens? I would love to do this on cold mornings. I'm trying to get them use to me some are skittish and some are curious. Do you cook it thoroughly?

 

[Harrietsmum]

Tinned whole kernel corn, the one without salt.

 

[poultrygeist]

I made this for them! Quaker oats, beef bone marrow, left over cranberry sauce, carrot shavings, chopped broccoli and ricotta cheese that was was on it's way out. Put the oats into the boiling water with the veggies ,when thick and creamy throw in the other stuff, mix it all up and serve warm. I know they're not turkeys but gobble, gobble!

 

[wildorchid053]

we feed ours oatmeal.. just make regular.. water and oats.. no salt or sugar.. but we are making a big suet block for them. lots of seeds and sunflower seeds and dried meal worms.. yummmmm

 

[Amethyste]

Well, the Ladies have given me their Xmas list already. They did get the one gift early cos somehow they managed to bust the plastic feeder

I think it just gave out personally...it was over 6 years old so I put up their new galvanized Little Giant Feeder for them and they seem happy!!

But anyhoo...

They are getting Xmas day a warm breakfast of scrambled eggs and veggies. They wil probably get some meat as well...most likely chicken we have left over. Over the holiday weekend they will get hot breakfast of gamebird crumbles, alfalfa pellts, and various veggies all soaked in hot water.

Santa is bringing the feathered piglets some flock block for when they get stuck inside over the winter as well. But they don't get that until the weather gets REALLY bad...like ice/snow. Which we probably will see at some point.

However the list also included a rooster or two, as well as more chicks.....sadly I had to ask Santa to veto that. No room at the inn!

 

[Amethyste]

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When I make them oatmeal, its made the same way I make mine...but without the salt/sugar. I add all kinds of bits and bobs to it.... alfalfa pellets, leftover meat, vegies, apples, bananas....whatever is around.

They love it!

 

[jojo54]

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I have mixed grain that I use for scratch. I soak it overnight so it doesn't have to cook so long. I add what ever I feel like cutting up (apples, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes) in fairly large chunks (leave peel on) and cook for awhile. The grain soaks up some of the water but I add some rolled oats near the end to thicken it up. If I have eggs for them or scraps of meat, etc. I add it at the end. Let cool. The girls love it!!