Chicken question

Elaine · 21-12-2010, 07:59 PM

I know some you have chooks so help me out here please.
Other than grain/pellet chicken foods, what else is ok to feed them?
I am currently looking after a few chooks and wondered about treats for them, its so cold here that I want to make sure they are getting enough to eat etc. The owners did leave some cooked rice and a tin of sweetcorn but thats all gone now.
Also whats a good way of making sure they have access to water, it keeps freezing over. They have a few ping pong balls in the water bowls but it's sooooo cold here that it freezes thick and fast. The ping pong balls would be ok if it was like a light frost or something but not in these arctic conditions. Would they eat the snow for water?

Mags · 21-12-2010, 08:06 PM

Don't know much about chickens, Elaine- but these links may give you some ideas .....

http://www.downthelane.net/chickens-in-winter.php

http://www.lowcostliving.co.uk/chick...ens-winter.php

alexgirl73 · 21-12-2010, 08:14 PM

My lot love nothing better than a nice pot of warm boiled potato/vegetable peelings in this weather

Just finished taking them up this evenings offerings in fact, and they are happy as larry now

Elaine · 21-12-2010, 08:18 PM

Thanx both of you xxxx

borderdawn · 21-12-2010, 08:23 PM

Mealworms, meat, bacon rind, MICE!!!!

Elaine · 21-12-2010, 08:45 PM

Thanx Dawn. Mice? Where am I gonna get mice from? Do I send the cats out a huntin' for the chooks?

Seriously though, how mice? Do they kill them themselves or what?

angieh · 21-12-2010, 09:00 PM

Warm mash ...........

Kazz · 21-12-2010, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by angieh

Warm mash ...........

Thought that said warm MICE............I need to go to SPECSAVERS

Kazz · 21-12-2010, 09:04 PM

Could just eat the chooks................

.....only jesting

angieh · 21-12-2010, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kazz

Thought that said warm MICE............I need to go to SPECSAVERS

My chooks would have relished warm mice too - but they were Black Rocks.

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