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Some people do it that way. Sometimes it works well. Other times the chickens pick through, eating the familiar stuff and throwing out the old stuff (or vice versa). If you want to do it that way, you certainly can. It might work for your chickens. For everything about raising chickens, there...

I would not force the wet mash or fermented feed. Just put a small amount in a dish, and let them decide whether to eat it or not, leaving the usual dry feed available at the same time. (A "treat" is kind of pointless if they have to be forced to eat it! So forcing them would only make sense if...

I have always used a pelleted or crumbled feed (the ingredients are ground up and mixed, and then stuck back together into pellets or crumbles.) Using that kind of feed, I have always provided it free-choice. So no, they did not eat it all up every day. If your chickens are picking out their...

As a rough guideline: go in the kitchen, get a "1 Tablespoon" measuring spoon, give no more than one level tablespoon of treats per hen each day. That is about 10% of what many hens will eat in feed each day (as in, they will often eat 10 Tablespoons of dry feed, which is 5/8 of a cup. The...