chibachickens
In the Brooder
- Jul 13, 2022
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Hi I just picked up some spare chicken supplies from another chicken owner.
After asking some questions about her chickens and why she didn’t need supplies anymore, it turns out her chicken eggs were making her sick…
A few questions…
1) can a sick chicken produce “sick eggs” or is this some other issue?
2) if so, can any illness do this?
3) we picked up some of their food they no longer were using, so I’m skeptical about feeding it to our own chickens due to contamination or possibly food gone bad.
- all flock feed in a bucket
- mealworms packaged in 2020
- garden grains packaged in 2020
(Corn, wheat, milo, red lentils)
Nothing looks moldy, but I’m wondering if being packaged in 2020 would make it expired or stale that could cause the chickens to be sick. Otherwise would potentially just contaminate my hens.
After asking some questions about her chickens and why she didn’t need supplies anymore, it turns out her chicken eggs were making her sick…
A few questions…
1) can a sick chicken produce “sick eggs” or is this some other issue?
2) if so, can any illness do this?
3) we picked up some of their food they no longer were using, so I’m skeptical about feeding it to our own chickens due to contamination or possibly food gone bad.
- all flock feed in a bucket
- mealworms packaged in 2020
- garden grains packaged in 2020
(Corn, wheat, milo, red lentils)
Nothing looks moldy, but I’m wondering if being packaged in 2020 would make it expired or stale that could cause the chickens to be sick. Otherwise would potentially just contaminate my hens.