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 Post subject: What's on your chooks menu?
PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:28 pm 
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I am interested to know what's on your chooks menu today as I am trying to vary their diets as much as possible.

Do you have a morning and evening regime, or just go with the flow?

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Hello wave.gif Chickababe,

My girls are still in heavy moult and off layoff.

Breakfast is mashed hard boiled egg with garlic and chook spice.

I have just started with layer pellets and pollard soaked in warm water for breakkie too.

A combo of Darling Layer Downs, free range mix and layer pellets in their feeder, corn on the cob, silverbeet, spinach, apple, pear, yoghurt etc

The girls also free range daily.

Supper/dinner more or less the same as breakkie so their tummies are full at bed time.

Chookies are are very fussy and mine are very spoilt :roll:

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Porridge and chook spice for breakfast.

The usual chook feed and what ever's going for a warm dinner.

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Scraps from dinner (pasta, veg etc.) in the morning, they just got warm weetbix, chook spice & milk for late dinner - pellets during the day.

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Blak1 wrote:
Scraps from dinner (pasta, veg etc.) in the morning, they just got warm weetbix, chook spice & milk for late dinner - pellets during the day.


Do you buy your Chook Spice or make your own?

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I made it from the recipe on here PP, I had to order some of the weird stuff online (fenugreek & aniseed).

I gave them too much the first time (tablespoon instead of 1/2 teaspoon) and even the naughty rooster didn't love it. Less is more it seems.

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Hi, Blak1,

You can buy fenugreek & aniseed at the supermarket maybe less eggspensive than on line.

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My silkies are so big fans of watermelon and they are such a mess after the frenzy of feeding its funny to watch them stick their whole head in the melon


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Petite Poulet wrote:
Hi, Blak1,

You can buy fenugreek & aniseed at the supermarket maybe less eggspensive than on line.


Or you can try an Indian or Asian grocery or a market where they sell spices.

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Cool, will hit the 'specialist' stores :)

The other thing the chooks are into at the moment is my tomato patch. They are pretty funny 'stealing' them from the patch and then off each other.

The grazing frames in their pens have greens that grew from a bag of red hen layer grains that got wet :-?

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