Yogurt everyday for young chickens too much calcium?

[1stepcloser]

Aw man. That is not good news. The chickies are always dipping into the layer crumbles and the girls are always sneaking into the chickies' crumbles.

 

[juliawitt]

My little girls head straight for the big girl food no matter what!! They have their own feeder with crumbles....but, little girls will have to try to be big!! I can't keep them out so, I still figure their better off than they would have been 25 or 30 years ago! They are warm, happy and eating good! I just can't worry about everything.

 

[chick818]

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WOW your right, I just checked the yogurt that I buy for my chickens, and it's plain, but that still had 12 Grams of sugar, granted it's for the whole container, and I only give them a couple of tablespoons, but I didn't realize that the plain had sugar in it. Sure don't taste that good... lol

 

[GardenGranny]

The sugar in milk and plain yogurt is not added, it is naturally in the milk, probably lactose (not sure of the correct type of sugar). There will be substantially more in the yougurt with fruit added.

 

[digitS']

The original poster is right to be concerned about too much calcium for non-laying youngsters.

We really need to understand that the modern chicken is a "laying machine" compared to the natural chicken, scratching around and kicking out 1 or 2 dozen eggs each year. Producing hundreds of eggs requires a near-lethal dose of calcium in layer feed to keep up with all the eggshell calcium needs.

One tricky part to all this is that too much calcium, and the damage that it causes, may not show up for months.

renal failure and ingestion of feed containing >3% calcium by nonlaying chickens

Steve

 

[rstampa]

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That may be. But the sugars have been process. And are not complex sugars like in fruits. Please check you facts. Sugar is Sugar natural or otherwise and the body stores it as fat and changes the insulent levels in the body. Including chickens. That is why you feed chickens grains and grasses.
What you want is a complex carbohydrate that is converted slowly into sugar. Yogurt is to high for chickens. Sorry to say!

 

[Kait27]

ok, sounds like the answer is that a few tablespoons of yogurt for four chickens won't give them calcium-related health issues. i dont think there's enough sugar to hurt them. everything in moderation. if they're fat, they're fat. There aren't any other chickens around to judge them for their full-figured-ness. thanks for your opinions.

 

[juliawitt]

Well,...I still don't know how to keep my little girls out of the big girl food. Their food is still in the segregation area and I feed them first. My only hope is that they are full before they go out with the flock. They are totally integrated, which I needed them to be because they have out grown the brooder. My big girls get fed second with layer ration, but with only two, they don't eat all their food. Today, I tried to feed the big girls less so that there would not be any leftovers for the little girls...and yes, I found the big girls eating the little girls food....I will continue the fight; any suggestions?

 

[digitS']

how to keep my little girls out of the big girl food. . . . any suggestions?

. . . Flock Raiser with free-choice oyster shell.

Steve​

 

[HippieChickyMama]

Gosh, I gave mine a half a quart of homemade plain yogurt today. Not a couple tablespoons, a half a quart! It was shared among the 29 of them........think it was too much?