{"id":1778,"date":"2023-11-29T23:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T23:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2023-11-29T23:44:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T23:44:49","slug":"can-baby-chickens-eat-corn-on-the-cob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chickenrise.com\/can-baby-chickens-eat-corn-on-the-cob\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened When I Let Baby Chicks Eat a Cob of Corn!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, last spring was a real hoot with those baby chicks I got. I thought it would be fun to see them peck around outside for a change since it was such a nice day. Boy, was that a mistake!<\/p>\n

I went in for just a few minutes to zap some leftovers from our barbecue the night before. When I came back out, it was total pandemonium! Feathers were flying everywhere and I couldn’t make heads or tails of what was going on.<\/p>\n

That’s when I spotted little Miss Feisty – you remember her, she was always trying to crow even though she was the smallest of the batch. Well, she had somehow flipped open the picnic cooler and helped herself to the leftover corn on the cob inside.<\/p>\n

I about fell over laughing when I saw her strutting around with that huge ear of corn clinging to her little beak. But I was about to learn that corn on the cob might be a bit too much for babies like her to handle!<\/p>\n

As it turns out, while corn is fine for chicks, a whole corn on the cob can be dangerous for their tiny beaks and bodies to handle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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