yogurt

[flowergirl60]

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Try putting blueberries in there. They'll go for the blueberries and get a mouthful of yogurt.

 

[Mama_Chicken]

My bantie chicks are a week old.... is there a limit to how much you should give them? I know to keep it on the "treat" side of things. Also, does it help with pasty butt? Two of my chick's bums get a little crusty, not so much as to there being blockage, though. I think it's just that their little butts are so fluffy it gets stuck!

 

[Cpntherfan]

thanks

 

[mrsteiner]

My chicks aren't interested in yogurt. They'll eat cottage cheese and other dairy (just about everything I give them actually) except yogurt.

 

[Arielle]

My 1 week and 4 week old got their first taste of yogurt today. Mixed with thier mash to make a paste and spread it on a plate. The older birds were the first over to look, only look, that brought the 1 week olds. Tentative pokes, no great enthusiasm. I left to do dishes. When I checked in again, it was gone! All gone!! I presented them with another batch immediately and they gobbled it up!

Thanks to the "homemade yogurt" thread, I have cheap, nutritious yogurt on hand at all times.

 

[Gargoyle]

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I served mine yogurt for the first time today, and they loved it. At first they wouldn't go near it, so I tucked a half dozen grapes into the yogurt, and that got them started.

Here's a video of their first yogurt meal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzEDdp4Uju0&feature=player_profilepage
Note that they're a bit wet, since we'd just cleaned the coop and gave them a shower. I made a limestone trough today, that is what they're eating from.

 

[DickGJ]

It's a hoot watching them eat it! Give it to them and stand back cause the yogurt will be flying as they eat and flick it off their beaks! It's amazing how clean they can get that bowl with almost nothing for a tongue! It's looks like a cake mix batter bowl after my kids got to licking it clean!

 

[welasharon]

Ugh, it's awful though when the polish get it on their head feathers....everybody gets a head wiping!
sharon

 

[Mommysongbird]

Mine wouldn't eat the vanilla flavored so I went today and finally found plain yogurt and at first they were scared because it was a new dish in there brooder, but after a few minutes, they devoured it. I only gave them like 3 to 4 teaspoons. Oh, I also sprinkled some of their crumble on top for 'granola'.

The did the same thing with the scrambled egg, but after they seen that the dish was not a foe, but friend they ate it all.

 

[ChicksterJo]

I love the look on my chicks' faces when they first see the yogurt. They run like mad, stepping all over the plate. I then decide to leave them alone and when I come back, all the yogurt's gone. I see the evidence on their beaks and feathers, though!

I feed them plain yogurt.