Reviews by LilyLeghorn

I purchased this feed off Amazon for chicks I hatched a few weeks back. I was looking for a small amount (closest feed store sells 15 lb bags, and last year, when I bought it, I had a lot left over after my chicks grew up. Long story short, in order to not waste it, we gave it to our leghorn hen (who had stopped laying at the time) and thus began her crazy addiction to chick feed.). I only had 2 chicks hatch out this year and really didn't need 15 lbs of feed, and definitely was not going to the "feed it to the old hen" option, especially since she started laying again. I also wanted medicated feed, as I have found that my chicks do better with medicated compared to non-medicated. I had much higher chick mortality rates before I switched to medicated.

Basically, I found this product on Amazon and it seemed to fit the bill. Small amount. Not too expensive. Medicated. Resealable bag to keep fresh. When I received it, my chicks wouldn't eat it at first and I noticed that it had a strange, unnatural smell. I thought it might be due to the vitamins or medication, but the fresh feed from the feed store I usually buy is also medicated and doesn't have such a smell. Perhaps it is due to preservatives they use to keep the feed fresh?

Anyhow, the chicks soon ate it and now they love it. The bag I received was quite fully filled, so it is more than enough to last my two chicks. However, it is quite hard to get the feed out of the bag. Pouring it out gets messy and very dusty. Using a spoon to get it out is quite slow/ineffective.

Overall, this product does the trick and my chicks are healthy, growing well, and happy. I would recommend it if you really only need a small amount, but only if your local feed store doesn't have such small amounts.

I bought these for my chickens a while ago, and they loved it! My old, cranky leghorn hen loves it, my chicks love it, and my friend's tiny serama hen (who is visiting) loves it. They really do go into a frenzy!
I find that these mealworms are really useful for taming the chicks. They are very flighty, but when I give them mealworms, they come running over.
My old hen is already very tame but can be violent and picky. She loves these mealworms though, and keeps asking for more. The one thing I would say is bad about this product is that it makes her really pushy. I'll give her a few, and she'll keep following me and jump up at the bag and even peck me because she wants more. It's quite scary.

On the other hand, these mealworms work for all beak sizes, as the serama hen can easily break them into little pieces and eat them. They're also convenient because they're resealable (at least, the bag I got was) and not gross to handle as live mealworms can be. It has all the benefits of live mealworms minus the effort it takes to keeping them alive.

Overall, I'd recommend this product, but keep in mind that it can cause very desperate, crazy, pushy chickens that would willingly eat the entire bag at once if allowed.

These are beautiful, great chickens. The first chicken I ever got was a leghorn in 2010, at a feed store,and she is now an amazing hen named Lily. When she was a chick, she got badly injured/ almost eaten by a hawk that managed to get into the coop, but she was extremely tough and lived.
She's currently a happy, gorgeous hen with an attitude, and she's my best friend she's very funny... if you feed her the same leftovers (ex. pasta) for a few days, on the third day she'll start eating the pasta, freeze, spit it across the lawn and wipe her beak all over the ground....
Leghorns are also very intelligent and independent;They're great egg layers that do not go broody- Lily lays a huge white egg every day, even in the winter
I have had no problem with free ranging Lily, not sure about other Leghorns but Lily does not try to fly even though I do not clip her wings, she is also very clean and pretty quiet (and vain- often grooms self)
overall, great chickens, I would recommend getting a few! They will brighten your lives