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What Shouldn’t You Feed a Chicken?
Esperanza Pallana, who writes the urban farming blog Pluck and Feather, says that chickens should not eat all your kitchen scraps. Keep them healthy and don’t give them dairy products, meat products, or processed foods.
Ditto - my flock o'four has been doing fine on everything, including meat and dairy products (which are a good way for them to get calcium). I don't do onions because of the flavour issue but other than that they get all the leftovers. Any way this vid can be deleted? It's non-fact based.
I agree, we keep a small flock on our little farm - chickens are omnivores!
baloney. chickens are omnivorous and will actively hunt small animals like mice, snakes, and birds, as well as insects, if they get the chance. have you ever seen a chicken catch a sparrow and swallow it whole? there is nothing wrong with giving chickens meat, meat is prized by them and they will fight over it, same with cheese or any other high protein food, like beans/lentils. they don't like...+READ
baloney. chickens are omnivorous and will actively hunt small animals like mice, snakes, and birds, as well as insects, if they get the chance. have you ever seen a chicken catch a sparrow and swallow it whole? there is nothing wrong with giving chickens meat, meat is prized by them and they will fight over it, same with cheese or any other high protein food, like beans/lentils. they don't like citrus or onions so much, though, and they will not eat these foods. chickens will also eat eggshells (they need the calcium for more eggs)-- but you want to feed the shells to them crushed-- otherwise they may recognize their own eggs as food and start eating them.-COLLAPSE
Chickens are omnivores, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with feeding them meat scraps. Truly free-range chickens would come across rodents, snakes, insects, and even carrion. Chickens have high protein needs, so meat is a valuable food source.
not much grease in an earwig, but meat scraps usually are loaded.
Chickens love insects and such. A friend keeps a small portable cage to enclose her hens so they will rototill a new area she wants to develop, or a bed she wants to rennovate. She claims the hens really clean up the soil of root maggots and earwigs. Don't turn the hens loose on a growing garden though. They can be voracious eaters and they will rototill without reguard to your prize veggies.
i"m curious how this video defines, "meat products". Everywhere you go, you see eggs advertised as being from "vegetarian fed" hens. Yet chickens are not vegetarians by nature. Chickens eat insects, worms, and will even eat small amphibians and rodents. Chickens will even eat each other (I've been told they love to hang out while their comrades are being slaughtered hoping for scraps). I suppose...+READ
i"m curious how this video defines, "meat products". Everywhere you go, you see eggs advertised as being from "vegetarian fed" hens. Yet chickens are not vegetarians by nature. Chickens eat insects, worms, and will even eat small amphibians and rodents. Chickens will even eat each other (I've been told they love to hang out while their comrades are being slaughtered hoping for scraps). I suppose you wouldn't want to feed a chicken a steak, but as many people keep chickens to help keep the insect population down, I think we have to stop this obsession wiht vegetarianism in chickens.-COLLAPSE
At the ranch we also did not feed the chicken hot chilies or pepper peels and no onion roots or skins, which got used for the stock pot anyway. These foods would cause the chicken's eggs to take on an unplesant taste. Otherwise, they got all the table scraps in addition to their chicken feed. They were the best disposals ever.