Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads... eat 'em up, yum!

[Jarhead]

I wonder if it will make your eggs fishy tasting? Probably would be good with some smoked salmon if it does!

 

[JennsPeeps]

If you think rotting meat smells bad, imagine a rotting maggot bucket full of fish goo.

 

[JennsPeeps]

Oh... and btw.... thank you for getting that @#)$@*&# song stuck in my head.

"Eat them up... YUM!" un

 

[Akane]

Dunno about chickens but cats fed on too much fish develop a vit b1 (thiamine) deficiency. It may be true for other animals and not seen frequently because we normally don't feed them as much fish as many people do cats. I wouldn't go overboard and feed them lots of fish daily partially for that reason and because too much of anything is bad for you. Make sure they are still getting a well balanced diet and not filling up on too much fish.

 

[krjwaj]

We bought a big bag of fish that was did not taste good; no matter how it was cooked. We have been feeding it to chickens, maybe 1/2 cup at a time. they love it.

 

[Wattles]

Quote:
Thanks for this info - I've been wondering about this. Mine have developed the bad habit of eating an almost exclusively protein-centered diet - fish being their food of choice. I have tried several types of laying feed, including an expensive organic one but they just refuse to eat it. Instead, my four girls exist on a daily diet of wild bird seed + snacks including fresh corn on the cob, fish, greens and anything they find while free-ranging. I'll start minimizing the fish allowance though and keep it to no more than 2 days a week.

If you want to give your chickens an inexpensive treat they'll go wild over, you can get a small portion of a small fish called smelts at your local grocery store's fish counter. These are fish that are about 3-4" long - a good size for a chicken to wrestle with and swallow down. I occasionally buy my girls a 1/2 pound of it for under $2 and they go crazy for it. I also sometimes give them those little generic cans of sardines in spring water (2 for $1) and they scarf that down. They really live for the smelts though - I think they enjoy the thrill of 'killing' the smelts - it brings out their little inner-dinosaurs . . .

Tara

 

[Run-A-Muck Ranch]

All of our birds--chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, peacocks go to our fish pond/turtle pond and pick a fish out every once in a while. When I go get minnows for the turtles I throw a few to the birds and they gobble them right up..
They eat such a wide aray of things, that a fish here and there should be fine.
The birds eat snakes, mice, bugs, pick at a dead rodent, frogs, I have even watched as the chickens found a fallen robin nest, picked the babies out, ran like made with a baby robin in there beaks, then gobbled it up.etc. etc.

I personally am not worried about a few fish or bones here and there. Now if that was there ONLY diet it might be a little different..
I also have free access DE for the birds.

 

[Run-A-Muck Ranch]

oh yeah, forgot to add...
I love the title of the topic...
have the song on CD and listen to it often. Our kids know the song by heart...