Re: My chicken won't eat worms!

[Guest guest]

Would they start eating worms if they are fed nothing

else?

Roman

--- leslieiniowa <mclcdcmcmc@...> wrote:

> My daughter's kindergarden class hatched a chicken.

> They don't know

> what breed it is but it will not eat a worm even if

> I try to force it.

> What's up with that? I'm guessing that it won't be

> a good forager --

> duh! I'm off to order some chicks now - going to

> try for Buff

> Orpingtons I think. Do I have to do anything to

> make them like worms

> and bugs???

>

> C.

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

At 07:49 PM 5/13/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>My daughter's kindergarden class hatched a chicken. They don't know

>what breed it is but it will not eat a worm even if I try to force it.

>What's up with that? I'm guessing that it won't be a good forager --

>duh! I'm off to order some chicks now - going to try for Buff

>Orpingtons I think. Do I have to do anything to make them like worms

>and bugs???

>

> C.

Let it get a little older. My chickens wouldn't eat anything but scratch

when I got them -- now they gobble down all kinds of stuff, and they forage

just fine. They eat a lot more when there are more chickens too: raising

one chick alone isn't a good idea unless you only want one for a pet and

want it to bond to people.

Aracanas seem a lot " wilder " and closer to the original breed than most

others, IMO. They were only domesticated fairly recently, and all the one's

I've had have been very smart.

Heidi Schuppenhauer

Trillium Custom Software Inc.

heidis@...