The girls eating their Winter Oatmeal

[Wrigley62]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=d9o7VFL0ATI

 

[valeriebutterley]

Wrigley, welcome back,
Sorry about your hurricane problems, hope all is well now.
I've just viewed your delightful video of chickens eating winter warmers, gave me an idea for mine what to treat them to today!
I only have human standard porridge oats, but it is just pure oats, easy to make and I think it will go down very well.
A merry Christmas to you, your family, and of course, to the girls.

 

[chrismahon]

Great video Wrigley. They get plates as well!

 

[Marigold]

I love the sight of hungry chickens gathering round for a meal. Mine are getting a nice warm mash every afternoon and they perch fir ages looking out to see if I'm coming down the garden with it. Then they all go quiet and concentrate on getting outside of it, like yours. Reminds me of when it was lunchtime on a school trip and all those noisy kids switched off the chatter to eat their sandwiches.

 

[Wrigley62]

Terri does pamper them, they get plates for their evening oatmeal and they are hand fed their afternoon grapes. At bedtime they get a lullaby.
They know when it's time, as soon as they see her they come running with heads low and wings flapping, it's a sight.
I wish I was a chicken

 

[Fuzzyfelt123]

ok - what is winter oatmeal...is this porridge for chickens? I am only feeding commercial stuff to my ex-batts; should i add anything else then?
I love the utube footage!

 

[Wrigley62]

Thanks Fuzzy,

I'm not sure what porridge is. Our Oatmeal is just "Rolled Oats" from Quaker. We add a tablespoon and a half of brown sugar and some golden raisins and dried currants and a pinch of salt, that's for six servings. That's enough for two nights for sixteen birds. They love it!!!

Now that it's Christmas time they get Silent Night sung to them before bedtime.

 

[valeriebutterley]

Love your attitude, Wrigley to your girls, almost beats mine!!
I thought I was the maddest chicken keeper ever, loads of treats, cuddles and chats, but in the affection stakes, it does pay off, and I think my egg return proves it usually.
Of my new flock, replacements because I lost 12 to the fox, 6 greet me every morning with lowered backs, and only go and feed when I have patted them and chatted to them.

 

[Wrigley62]

Thanks Val, It's a warm feeling you get. I never thought that me or expecially my wife would ever be this attatched. I do love it.

I was telling Terri, my wife, that we've been lucky, we have only lost one since I got them and that was to some kind of sickness. No foxes, coyotes, fisher cats or birds of prey..........yet....KNOCK ON WOOD!!! I don't know what she would do if something happened to one of them. I do tell her that it's not a matter of will it happen, but when will it happen. Losing 12 had to be devistating, I am so sorry.

Talk later Val, Have a Merry Christmas and a Safe New Year!!

Wrigley

 

[Fuzzyfelt123]

Ah rolled oats = porridge! I tried giving mine some warm, honeyed porridge but they just looked at it suspiciously....although it has gone now ( could of been all the wildbirds hanging around though!)

 

[Bickerton]

Tried mine with some, weren't interested at all other than picking a couple of meal worms out.

 

[Marigold]

Mine just get a warm damp crumbly mixture of pellets, with maybe the odd sunflower seed, or a cabbage stalk chopped into pellet- sized bits, no sugar, ever, -served on a big clay dish, no china plates - but then, I'm just a cruel and heartless owner.

 

[Wrigley62]

LOL!! It's brown sugar and only a bit for 3 cups of dry oat meal. I tried the warm mash with scratch....they didn't like it at all. They really love the raisins and currants. It doesn't seem to hurt them, the sugar I mean, they are giving us some beautiful eggs and they all seem to be very healthy.

We use paper plates, no need to spoil them

 

[Bickerton]

Tried mine with some, weren't interested at all other than picking a couple of meal worms out.

Stupid chickens...

 

[Wrigley62]

Hey Bickerton, you have some beautiful girls there and a VERY clean coop! Nice!

 

[Wrigley62]

What kind of shavings do you use in your coop? It looks really nice.

 

[Bickerton]

I use a hemp horse bedding, brands like equisorb, aubiose. Is alot of brands about now really, between £6-8 a bale.

Concrete floor helps.

http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7269

 

[Wrigley62]

I remember that coop now. A big difference from when you first started. You should be very proud.

 

[Marigold]

I love the sight of hungry chickens gathering round for a meal. Mine are getting a nice warm mash every afternoon and they perch fir ages looking out to see if I'm coming down the garden with it. Then they all go quiet and concentrate on getting outside of it, like yours. Reminds me of when it was lunchtime on a school trip and all those noisy kids switched off the chatter to eat their sandwiches.

And here they are, doing just that.

http://youtu.be/Ipe_tx555Mg

 

[Margaid]

They look lovely Marigold, and the run looks clean and dry while my two sometimes have to paddle!