Yogurt Fail and Other Treat Adventures

[Chieftain]

We've been having mealworm frenzies here on a regular basis; it is our Number One (with a bullet) favorite chick snack. Our little week old Black Jersey Giants don't move around much and they are pretty quiet, until I drop a couple of mealworms in there, and they are off to the races, frantically running around the brooder with the worm in their mouths peeping hysterically. I think the poor worms die of whiplash long before they get eaten, and I know they have a wild ride for at least a few seconds....

If you can't get past the "Ick Factor" and pick up a mealworm. just use a pair of tweezers and a shotglass to collect them....

 

[KKatknap]

I have never failed with grapes. Big chickens, little chickens, grapes are the bomb! (Cut 'em up for the babies, though)

I want to try the meal worm thing...I don't know if tweezers will help me with the eew factor........but the shot glass might.

 

[Chicken Little Farmer]

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I have heard and read that it is bad to feed chicks grass clippings because the impact their crops.....

I'd have to disagree, I've gotten plenty of mixed replies. I simply let my chicks out to roam my yard, and I let the grass grow out so it's several inches long so they can have some greens in their diet. I've been doing this for a week straight and havn't had a problem, some of the pieces my chicks tear off are pretty long. Some around 4-5 inches, almost as tall as they are. Everyone gets a few capfulls of grit every couple of days and they seem super healthy and are pooping and eating their starter just fine.

OK, i thought you were cutting off pieces and giving them the already cut clippings. Yah, i have a cage that i put them in outside and they just love looking for bugs and worms.

 

[kateseidel]

My chicks love: lettuce, broccoli, hard boiled eggs

My chicks ignore: green beans, grass, celery tops, yogurt

I think today we might try some cheerios...

 

[gertsgal]

Hi all,
I am living vicarously through your stories. No chickens of my own yet. where do you find meal worms?

 

[Chieftain]

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My local Petsmart carries them. Just about any good pet store should have mealworms, just ask. Lots of people feed them to birds, lizards and other animals. I even offered one to one of my ferrets and she snarfed it down greedily...

I'm also raising my own colony in an old tupperware container.

 

[Rte.66_chicks]

The chicks I've raised were scared of yogurt also until some splattered on the brooder wall-then they all ganged up on that white stuff on the wall. So now I smear some around deliberately, and in a few days they figure out that the stuff in the dish is just as good.

 

[RockyPhoenix]

my chickens who are all full grown think they are too good for cabbage or lettuce......they wont even look at it...hilarious!