This was a truly hard fact to learn early on. While I do feed some treats each week, it consists of boiled eggs, yogurt and sometimes tuna during a hard molt, but even when we feed them this it's just enough for 8 hens and we don't over do it.
Tossing scratch and BOSS and other things in the...
Thank you, she was the G.O.A.T., I still have a few videos of her and her egg call, hard to watch knowing I was responsible for her early demise. I hope to add 2 SS to my flock this spring.
I think you'd be okay to use as training for a few weeks, but to my understanding they are loaded with fat so we decided against giving our new flock these, did purchase some dried but they couldn't care less for them, they would rather have boiled eggs as their treat, so we only give "extras"...
You are most likely on to something about the difference in your birds. We gave to all our birds, but as you know some eat way more than others and the girls lower on the pecking order get much less, so less chance of them turning out like our main leader Gidget.
We offer boiled eggs and...
Thank you.
I hope this will reinforce this idea to Stop feeding treats so eagerly and substantively before it's too late and we lose another to this issue.
We were blessed to start our very first flock back in 2011 with 16 wonderful little chicks from Meyers Hatchery. We built them the "chicken mansion" and huge runs, and free range area for their growth and wellbeing. At the time there was just my wife, daughter and I to care for the 16 little...