[LadyPluck]

Do we have a list of treats to feed and what not to feed our hens please?

[Brambles]

Hello Lady...  My girls only get a handfull of corn at night (keeps them warm in winter)...  a few green leaves a couple of days a week.   They LOVE dandelion flowers which I pick a few each every day, I split the yellow heads in half as the bantams find a whole dandelion head too much to handle!    This on top of their layers pellets which they have access to all the time.

[joyfull]

mine have mixed corn in the afternoons, they also love sunflower hearts, meal worms and sweetcorn. My cockerel loves tomatoes, especially the seeds. On snowy or frosty mornings mine also have porridge made with water (but if I have none of this they get ready brek or even muesli made with water again).

[Roughlee Handled]

Do not feed bread as this can cause compaction of the crop.

[LadyPluck]

Wonderful! Keep em coming please

Mine don't seem to like sweetcorn, but I'll give the sunflower hearts a go, I have plenty of those for the wild birds.

[joyfull]

don't give them too many just a few as they are fattening, same with grated or crumbled cheese (wild birds and ducks also love cheese). Some hens and ducks also like grapes and ripe bananas 

[The Ora Girls]

Aldi had an offer recently - seed "bells" for budgies etc.... bought a few for the girls as treats - hang them up so they have to cope with it swinging as they peck at it and they seem to be very happy with them.

[Lynda_T]

Hiya, mine love grapes, and if u cut a watermelon in half they about mug u for a bit!
Spinach leaves is a fav too also meal worms thats how i get my hens back in there run after been out in the garden all i need to do is shake the tub and they come running very commical.
However meal worms are very fattening so most days I shake the tub and sprinkle mixed corn!!
 

[The Ora Girls]

I think one of mine might be vegetarian - I throw in some dried mealworms they all come running but then she turns her nose up.... happens each time, but with vegetables she dives in to eat!

[hillbilly]

On snowy or frosty mornings mine also have porridge made with water

I tried this today but they didn't like it. 
How sloppy should it be?

[LadyPluck]

However meal worms are very fattening so most days I shake the tub and sprinkle mixed corn!!
 

I'll have to remember that one! LOL

[Alby]

Yorkshire puds and boiled potatos are a favourite with mine. Ad Chicken to this and its like Sunday lunch 

  Alby

[joyfull]

On snowy or frosty mornings mine also have porridge made with water

I tried this today but they didn't like it. 
How sloppy should it be?

I don't make it too sloppy and at first mine didn't like it then one of my banty babies tried it so the other girls thought it must be OK and not poisoness 
I sometimes also add a few raisins and they love those 

[too many girls]

just a word of warning
I think i may well have killed my favourite hen by giving her the wrong foods, Lonely was our all out favourite girl, she had a very hard time before she came to us and we wanted to make up for it, we spoiled her rotton, she came in every morning for her breakfast of reddy brek (too much salt?) and then 6 months on took the liberty of turning up for afternoon tea (tuna, bread soaked in milk or her favourit pasta) she was given some treat everytime she asked, i was devastated when she became ill, despite a trip to the vet (poultry vet) and round the clock nursing she died, we consoled ourselves that at least she had experienced freedom for the first time in her life, i have no doubt she knew we loved and cherished her, but i am left wondering.........had she been kept on a proper diet, would she still be alive like the rest of her less spoilt housemates?

[too many girls]

just read my own post back and what i meant was,  treats are fine, but not too often.