New Chicken Keeper - Refusing to Eat Pellets!

 Would appreciate some advice please - have had my two bantams for about six weeks now.  Have been through organic pellets, layers mash and two types of mixed corn, but to no avail!  They point blank refuse the pellets or mash.  I have even made it into a porridge but still no joy. They eat a small amount of mixed corn (and have been laying for about a fortnight now) but are literally surviving on rice, sweetcorn, cabbage, mashed potato and the odd bit of cat food which they go wild about (but i have read mixed reviews on whether this is good for them or not).  I am concerned that they wont be finding enough bugs in the garden as it is slabbed with just a couple of slabs taken up for them to forage in.  I have tried to contact the people that I bought them to see what they fed them on but they havent returned my calls.   I have tried just leaving the pellets and corn out with no treats for a couple of days but they just starve themselves instead!  Any advice please?

Sounds about right our Pekin's sulked for about 3 days then ate the pellets Remember treats need to be treats not part of the regular diet.

Good Luck

ok thanks will try that - i thought thats what you might say lol!  was hoping that as they are laying every day and seem perfectly happy that it might be ok to carry on as i am, but i obviously want them to be as healthy as possible so will give it a go and stop spoiling them! 

They will eat the pellets when the realise they are getting nothing else, they cetainly wont starve.

Glad to hear they are being good little chickens...now you need to be a good owner and resist those dear little faces asking for all the wrong things. Leave them on their layers for a couple of weeks then you can start to introduce some lovely treats and corn but only in the later afternoon an hour or so before they go to bed.
Lovely to hear a happy ending.

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