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How to Pick Treats for Chickens. While a chicken’s diet should be well balanced, an occasional treat can be good. Treats can help relieve boredom in confined chickens, including those that are being kept inside for the winter. They may reduce chickens’ pecking at each other or eating things they shouldn’t, like the paint off the walls. If you do feed treats to your flock, try to keep them nutritious and not more than 1 to 2 percent of the diet. That’s a small amount, usually less than a cup per bird per week, and it should be divided up over several days.

Following are some good, safe treats for chickens. Remember that these are treats to be fed in small quantities. Clean up any treats the chickens don’t eat right away. Dark, leafy greens: Avoid iceberg or head lettuce, which is basically just green-tinged water. Chickens don’t care much for sweet foods, and foods that consist primarily of sugar and fat should be avoided. Raising Chickens Glossary broiler; broiler bird brooder chiggers Coccidia coccidiosis coccidiostats grit. Chicken Treat Chart The Best Treats For Backyard Chickens. This is a list of everything you can feed a chicken. However, everybody's chickens have their own tiny brains full of likes and dislikes, so while one person's chickens may come running for grapes or watermelon, another person's chickens may turn up their pointy little beaks at it. Anything on this list is worth a try. Your comments are welcome - please post them on At the bottom of the page are things you should avoid feeding your chickens.

The most favorite chicken treat of all - mealworms! Note the lightning speed of the chicken lunging for them. By the time my camera was ready to take the next shot, all the worms were gone. Yogurt's a favorite, and very good for their intestinal health. Here are two photos from Rooster-Red of his chickens enjoying their yogurt!

Rooster-Red recommends standing back from your chickens when feeding yogurt, because the stuff flies EVERYwhere. Here's a bowl of warm oatmeal, girls! ... " Nc preppers. Chicken Coop Building Project.

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Raising Backyard Chickens. Purchase Chicken Coops, Baby Chicks, Raise Pet Chickens in Your Backyard, Learn About Chicken Breeds! Raising Backyard Chickens | mediaOrganic. 4 Dollar Chicken Feeder & Water. From Message Board member Kent in WA: "You can make free waterers and feeders for about $4. Check at your local grocery store. If they have a deli or bakery then ask for their buckets. My local Albertsons has all the free buckets you'll ever need. I've picked up a couple dozen 2.5 - 5 gallon buckets. Buy a 20 inch plastic planter base ($4) and drill 1" holes all the way around the base of the bucket. Birds will be able to stick their heads in the bucket to reach the water. From Message Board member Utah: "I have used this waterer for about 20 birds. All I did was drill a half inch hole about 2 inches from the top of the bucket to allow water flow into the pan, and just pound the lid on for the seal, then place it upside down in the pan.

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