5 Daily TREATS for Chickens

[@TT-kg3li]

Thanks for a wonderful and informative video. My hens are almost one year old so I’m kind of a newbie to chickens. I never knew you could love a chicken so much. They all have their own personalities. I feed all the same food to my girls as you do except for one thing - sardines! When it is really cold , they get a can of sardines in the morning with their mash and they absolutely love it. I learned about that from watching another YT channel that I do not remember the name of. Thanks again!

[@annac6455]

Wow thanks for the info about sardines! We're going to try it with our chickens.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks for tuning in! They really are like dogs, it’s funny how they all have a silly personality and see what they are thinking about, usually treats or being mischievous lol! Yes it’s amazing how much they can eat they really are garbage disposals, just no spoiled, fried, sugary, salty, poisonous (google full lists of poisonous plants or food for chickens to be sure) Basically with table scraps if it’s unhealthy for us it’s probably not good for them either 😊 Chickens do love meat and fish, they will even eat poultry. We just don’t feed sardines because we don’t eat them ourselves so their not on our shopping list and already give them grubs and crickets for their insect protein treats. Also heard an old wives tale that eggs could possibly taste fishy, kind of like they say garlic and onion can affect taste of eggs. Not sure if there’s any truth to that but we do sell our eggs! Lol safe than sorry I guess for our customers. Maybe we’ll try it someday though thanks 😊

[@i.cant.sleep.anymore]

This is a channel I watch over and over again for comfort. Every video is like a cup of warm soup on a cold day lol. Thanks for all that you two do 🐔💖

[@laurie8166]

You guys are so knowledgeable and so kind to your babies great job 🐣

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@katharinecox5200]

I like to give mine chickens morning scratch treat too. Kinda like I give myself I bit of cream in that last cup of morning coffee. My hubby gives them his leftovers when he gets home. Now they run up to his car yikes. Fun stuff.

[@brandib264]

Omg you have the best variety. Some of them are rolly polly butterball lover bugs! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you! We love big rolly polly butterball chickens! Lol the big ladies look so silly. Bantams are cute but there’s just something silly about the big ladies

[@DiggingForHealth]

Fun treat ideas! We give lots of garden trimmings as well and will sometimes toss lawn clippings and leaves to them so they can scratch through and find goodies. :)

[@BockBockBouquet]

Love seeing them having fun scratching! Thanks for tuning in! ❤️

[@shellyek6237]

I love watching your channel. I am kind of new to chickens. We had them as a child but I wasn't that interested in them. I recently got 6 hens and I love them wish I could have more. My girls also love blueberries, and raspberries.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Aw thank you! They are such cute pets I’m glad you have them again. We also give them grapes but the silly girls like when we slice the grapes in half only! Lol

[@heavymechanic2]

Chickens are crazy for berries, I give them haskap berries and its like candy at a parade. the chicken will pick it up and run away, its mine you can't have any.. BTW congrads on the wedding.

[@esmeraldaequestrianedits]

Ahhhh so cute! My chickens ❤️ sunflower seeds, grapes and blueberries as well! Also we soon will be getting two purebred large fowl hens! So that is very exciting, keep up the amazing work!!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Ours love us to slice their grapes in half lol they are very spoiled. Enjoy your new babies, ❤️ thank you!

[@esmeraldaequestrianedits]

@@BockBockBouquet Lol 😂 one of our girls is super picky with what treats she likes! Thank you 😊

[@laviniatemple2967]

Im new here. Those are pretty chickens . New chicken owner. We have 4. 😊❤️

[@its_ur_girl_]

Can chickens go in a baby pool like that or were those ducks? Sorry I am a beginner and don’t know much.

[@kismitj]

i keep reptiles and tarantulas as pets, so now and then i'll cut up a couple of gut loaded (fed nutrient rich food for a while before feeding) super worms. the chickens Love them. i cut them up because they burrow and we don't need the giant beetles they become cropping up a few months later if they escape :D

[@elledavis6224]

My chickies love when I give them leftover pasta noodles 🤤🤤

[@BockBockBouquet]

Haha a list of what chickens don’t love is much shorter than a list of what they love! They go crazy for just about anything in our hands. If we have any sort of bag or grocery bag they automatically yell at us and run at us like it’s for them 😂

[@kriscameron7470]

@@BockBockBouquet I love your videos and have learned so much from you. I love how you love your chickens. I'm so glad you treat them with the same things I do. In addition to the treats you shared, my girls also go crazy for grapes and spinach!

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@kriscameron7470 Aw thanks so much!! Ours love spinach and go crazy for the grapes on one condition! Lol they like if we slice them in half for them better. They are silly picky spoiled ladies

[@nanamimi3382]

I thought they couldn't have beet or carrot leaves.

[@janiemelgoza166]

So are my chickens spoiled because sometimes when I give them treats the won’t eat them they are after the meal worms only?

[@reebex101]

Do u feed the flies from the trap or just trapping to keep flies down?

[@heatherwelch1161]

Raspberries are my girls favorite snack

[@JohnHarbinger]

What a wonderful video.

[@gattamom]

What is their primary food?

[@hussainjamal5404]

Hi Ric n Kelly! Can you please make a video on the different colours and varieties of your hens' eggs? I just discovered your channel and was most fascinated by the eggs. Never saw a red or green egg before. Love from Pakistan

[@BockBockBouquet]

Yes we could! Thanks for tuning in and thanks for the video suggestion ❤️

[@hussainjamal5404]

Thank you for accepting my request! I will wait for the video... :3 ♥

[@annac6455]

Love the chicken tables! So useful.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks and so cute watching them enjoy a snack!

[@DeniseWeyer]

Mine love cherries, squash especially spaghetti cause they can pick out pieces better, chard, lettuce, spinach, watermelon, meal worms, sunflowerseeds, cucumbers. Haven't tried blueberries yet. They are all on Grower feed right now, which I soak so the seed swells to double in size as my pullets are 9 weeks old. I haven't given them scratch because they are on the grower feed which is seed. My chickens look good and happy.

[@imanmohammadi810]

🐓🐓

[@470ohio]

My girl's favorites are Oatmeal & Watermelon

[@BockBockBouquet]

Yum!

[@bloomstumpremoval]

Frozen blueberries are cheaper and particularly good on a hot day.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Awesome! We usually buy the organic blueberries for us to eat and they just get the leftovers.

[@lesxo4306]

this was very useful i want my chickens to be healthy and big like ur chickens thanks u so much!!!! 🐓❤️

[@adamharison4732]

Hi, Ricardo and Kelly, Is there a way to make roosters friendly with each other and avoid each other and never fight, I have lots of chickens and a big land and the roosters always look for each other and they start fighting , I want to keep them all but I failed to make these roosters ignore each other, is there a solution from your side? Or give them some drugs and alcohol to make them forget each other lol xD.

[@BockBockBouquet]

It can be done but it’s not easy. The best and easiest way to add new roosters is as a baby chick and when they are still a 3 month old small cockerel start the introduction as you would other pullets and let them grow up with the dominant rooster. Then it would be clear whos in charge and they would submit and the other rooster would have seen no threat from a baby. BUT it can still be done! All rooster personalities are different and hormone levels, depending how bad your rooster wants to be in charge. I would let him spend at least 2 weeks, possibly a month inbetween a fence to the other rooster. They will acclimate to each other through the fence for less fighting, use smaller fencing like hardware cloth if they bloody each other through a big gapped fence. Once they stop fighting through the fence and the old roo seems used to the new Roos presence then you can release. There may still be some fighting but unfortunately it must happen as a natural part of their pecking order, they have to settle who in charge and it’s a natural part of their life. Just watch (it will be hard to see) and let them fight until it’s figured out. Hopefully one backs down and they have it decided. Only intervene if it looks really bad like one may get hurt. It one gets bloodied he’ll need to be separated again until healed as the like to continue to pick if they see blood. Hope this information helps, it is much harder to introduce older rooster, babies make it much easier, but it can still be done

[@adamharison4732]

@@BockBockBouquet Thanks for this useful information, I divided spaces for each of them because they are brothers and the same age one years old and prevented them to see each other, dominant rooster 4 years old he is their father all, they are afraid of him, but they target each other now each one of them with his chickens this is the perfect solution because they want to kill each other and I'm tired of treating their wounds every day and seeing them fight the worst thing about raising chickens is the fight between roosters

[@MyMysaysFU]

Fresh stevia plant is like crack to them. Snap a branch off and hold it out, they’re like piranhas

[@ironrose888]

My ducks and chickens love peas. I thaw out a bag and give them at sundown when I put them in the coop.

[@LM-yh4by]

You guys are the best! Blessings of fruition to you both 🎉

[@naegwut]

New sub Loving it!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks for subbing!

[@CR-tj4ig]

You two should put out a line of punk T-shirts. Clash- Bock the Casbah The Cramps- Bockini Girls With Machine Guns Dead Kennedys- Bock-O-Rama Or if you want to go more obscure… Crass- Do They Owe Us a Laying? But I guess that one could be taken the wrong way. 😬

[@BockBockBouquet]

Hahaha! Love all the ideas!! My boy, I was listening to The Feeding of The 5,000 album from Crass while building a chicken coop today 🤘🏻

[@kakihentz2505]

I give my flock chopped up frozen blueberries as a treat when it's really hot. They love it..! ❤️

[@BockBockBouquet]

Our chickens go insane for those!

[@PLJS2018]

Basically same treats as you. We also give them loaf bread and sardines or fish steaks they LOVE ❤️ them.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Love spoiling them & seeing their happy faces ❤️❤️🐔

[@charlotteanderson5434]

Mine loves everything I feed them. There favorite is black soldier fly and vegetables. I could go on with there treats.

[@BockBockBouquet]

We love giving them their treats! Very therapeutic and it sure makes them happy! ❤️ if it’s in our hands or a bag they think it’s for them lol

[@4WingView]

I appreciate this information. I'll share your channel with my daughter in law too.

[@BockBockBouquet]

That’s great, thanks for tuning in! ❤️

[@Louise-xr5ok]

I tried to give my chickens a corn mix as a treat in the afternoon but one always gets really runny stools after, tried also sunflower seeds, the same thing. Any advice as to why this happens, when she eats her daily food she is okay, just seems to be treats

[@BockBockBouquet]

That’s strange, runny stool is usually just from too much water consumption. Corn is junk food to them you could just omit it entirely it’s not good for them anyways. Maybe that one chicken has a sensitivity, just like all people are different and different intolerances and allergies

[@75blackviking]

Just came across your channel. Pretty cool stuff!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you so much! Welcome to our channel ❤️

[@PhilipHamrick]

Our chickens love peanuts!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Oh boy do they! We had never given our flock peanuts until we rescued 3 barred rocks, 2 hens and a rooster, and their previous owner gave us the trio with a bag of peanuts, their favorite treat. They went so crazy for them we had never thought about giving them peanuts until then! ❤️🐔

[@nordicfarmstead1086]

CRASS

[@BockBockBouquet]

Heck yeah! My band got to play Rebellion Festival with Crass last year in Blackpool UK.

[@nordicfarmstead1086]

@@BockBockBouquet what's your band? I'm always looking to find new music...I've been listening to Oi/punk/ska for 27 yrs now...and I'm missing out on the bands who only play in Europe...

[@BlackMamba-lt8oe]

my chicken loves onion and ginger plant leaves 😂😂😂😂

[@BockBockBouquet]

They love everything don’t they! 😄❤️🐔

[@BlackMamba-lt8oe]

@@BockBockBouquet my aseel chicken ignores plant leaves, when there is fish on the menu 😂😂😂😂, very smart birds

[@lynnclark4208]

Really enjoyed your video. 🙋🤗

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you! 😊❤️🐔

[@pamcarter6595]

I'm in Texas, I have 5 chickie baby's. They get scrambled eggs with fresh cooked turkey in it every morning. They get grapes and blueberry and live meal worms. My girls are spoiled.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Aww how sweet we love to spoil them as well. We gave them scrambled eggs today with some nutritional yeast and oregano mixed in 😄

[@pamcarter6595]

@@BockBockBouquet I love your Chanel 💜

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@pamcarter6595 thank you so much!

[@alisablack7477]

My chickies are almost 13 weeks old so they’re still eating chick starter. What kind of feed do you give your hens once they start laying, and where do you get your scratch? I’ve also been giving them a little bit of the Grub Terra and your right, they go nuts for it!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Hello depending on what brand you use you switch from chick starter to grower feed at 8 weeks of age. Some brands the chick starter is also a grower, so you never switch and feed the same feed until age of laying eggs. We recommend switching from starter/grower to layer feed once they lay their first egg. Layer feed has too much calcium for pullets not laying and the excess calcium can damage their kidneys. Also once laying keep a dish of oyster shell free choice on the side somewhere and they will pick at it as they need. They self regulate how much calcium they need to make strong eggshells. Oyster shell is a slow release calcium supplement where as layer feed is a quick release calcium. We purchase scratch from our local feed store we live the brand scratch and peck feeds. We have them linked in our description you can also order online

[@alisablack7477]

@@BockBockBouquet This makes so much sense! I’m currently feeding them a starter/grower feed. I didn’t know that too much calcium can damage their kidneys-so scary! Thank you so much for your quick response, I appreciate it so much! There is so much to know about raising chickens and it’s a bit overwhelming, but you both explain things in ways that’s so understandable. You guys are awesome! I can’t thank you enough!❤️

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@alisablack7477 thanks so much! They are fairly easy to raise, and of course such a joy! Chickens are the best ❤️

[@surferchix88]

OH PLEASE tell me where you got those octagonal egg cartons! ♥️

[@BockBockBouquet]

Eggcartons.com 😊

[@Cowgell]

You guys are mine and my husband’s soul twins!! Thank you soooo much! ♥️ We sell our eggs locally and I’m in love with these cartons! Thanks again!!

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@Cowgell awww ❤️ also check out our friends at poultrycartons.com we buy square ones from them and love them!

[@jennifermiller7215]

What is scratch?

[@BockBockBouquet]

They sell it at the feed stores it’s a mix of cracked corn and other seeds, grains, millet. It’s kind of like potato chips to us, it’s a junk food but they love it so much! So feed sparingly as a treat