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?

Corn is good for fattening her up.

Ours love sweetcorn, corn, cooked pasta and banana.

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.

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!

banana porridge
sweetcorn
cheesy mashed potato

Sunflower seeds.

Are they fat as dumplings yet Laurie ?

Sorry. is she as fat as a dumpling yet

How lovely. Is she in your kitchen?

Cake is good,

MMmmmm. Goood cake.

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.

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

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