What foods can I give my elderly chicken to fatten her up? She's pecking round my feet right now

[Lauriefairycake]

She's 4 years old and recently lost her bezzy mate (about 6 weeks ago)so she now lives all alone. She's dead skinny.

I was going to get another chicken for her but haven't yet.

Any high fat foods I can ply her with while she's pecking round inside?

[GentleOtter]

Corn is good for fattening her up.

[sylvev]

Ours love sweetcorn, corn, cooked pasta and banana.

[VanessaParody]

Flaked maize is good if you can find it in smallish quantities, you don't want a full sized sack - could try a pet shop.

Otherwise, lots of corn as GO says.

[alibubbles]

I make mine porridge with probiotic yoghurt that I make myself and all the disgusting Gilian McKieth seeds that i bought and never ate! They love it and flick it around, one of them always stands in the bowl!

[TrinityRhino]

banana porridge
sweetcorn
cheesy mashed potato

[Sputnik]

Sunflower seeds.

[GentleOtter]

Are they fat as dumplings yet Laurie ?

[GentleOtter]

Sorry. is she as fat as a dumpling yet

[tillyblue]

How lovely. Is she in your kitchen?

Cake is good,

[MrTillyblue]

MMmmmm. Goood cake.

[Sputnik]

I did have chickens ages ago (and ducks and geese). I'd like them again as we eat tonnes of eggs, but we've nowhere to put them

Also, I am a chicken snob and don't really like the standard ones, we had those little ones but they soon developed a mind of their own and went feral in a massive bramble patch. Eventually the foxes got them.

[NutterlyUts]

What about grower's pellets or whatever the commercial fattening feed is in place of her pellets?

[Sputnik]

I'd want to keep them free range, but it's all woods here, they'd get lost immediately.