Chickens LOVE snacks! For a comprehensive chart of what are acceptable treats for chickens (posted along with GREAT photos) - go to the website at the end of this post. Here's a summary of what our chickens like:
Scratch (a mixed of cracked corn, milo, and other grains) - FAVORITE treat! If our chickens are hanging out inside their house and hear these grains fall to the ground, they will SHOOT out of the house like a bullet and peck away happily! If they are already pecking away happily, then hear that a larger lode of scratch has hit the ground nearby, they'll abandon their lot and run to the new lode! (For what it's worth, the chicks, who are more like young ladies of hens rather than children, have not yet acquired a taste for scratch. Watch out!)
Yogurt and Cucumber (usually served separately) - a Good treat for hens and chicks alike (I think we have Greek hens)
Lettuce, grass, and weeds - a Good treat! It's funny to watch the big girls attack the big pieces of vegetation: they don't mind that half of it is hanging out their beaks!
Cabbage - Not so popular with the big girls, though, if you leave it out, they'll eat it.
Carrot tops - pretty big hit!
Strawberries - not so hot - our birds apparently don't have much of a sweet tooth.
Warm oatmeal - pretty good treat! True story - one cold morning, Mark woke up extra early to make a warm bowl of oatmeal for the big girls! He served it to them in their chicken house: breakfast in bed for our hens!
Meal worms, crickets, meaty bones (think pork rib bones) - YESSSSS!
Here are our little Greek birds, contemplating a dish of yogurt! Bwak bwak for now!
http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart
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