Please don’t call me nuts if it’s just WRONG LOL

[Ifitaintbroke]

Sleep with one eye open, and the door closed!

Aye. And the fan blowing stiff!

 

[Ridgerunner]

My concern with rats is if they ate poison before being caught.

Understandable. Mice too. I sometimes use poison to control mice and rats. If I find a mouse or rat dead from the poison the chickens don't get it. The neighbors are not close enough that I worry about them using poison. Rats and mice don't travel 1/4 mile regularly.

I figure if a mouse or rat has not eaten enough poison to kill it or make it too sick to eat it doesn't contain enough poison in the parts they eat to harm a larger chicken. But that is for the mice the chickens catch on their own. If I am baiting mice or rats I don't feed them to the chickens.

 

[K0k0shka]

If I find a mouse or rat dead from the poison the chickens don't get it.

But a predator might. Too many of them are dying senseless deaths from eating poisoned rodents, including the national symbol, the bald eagle

 

[ForFlocksSake]

I asked this question once and someone told me its fine as long as you don't tell them

 

[Luv Ducks]

I asked this question once and someone told me its fine as long as you don't tell them

Some people scramble their eggs and feed them to their flocks. Isn't that like eating your young?? LOL My Ducks on the other hand will only eat grass, weeds or lettuce. They will not touch any type of food scraps but do eat their duck food and scratch grains. Occasionally I find an egg that is broken that I think one of them tried to eat. Funny how all flocks can be so different.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Would it be completely inappropriate to give our chickens, leftover chicken, scraps raw or cooked?

my mom once fed a chicken pie to the chickens. I told her good luck with the Sweeny Todd birds lol

 

[Ridgerunner]

Funny how all flocks can be so different.

And how different people and their attitudes can be. I don't see anybody as wrong on this whatever they do, we all have our own desires, ethics, and guidelines.

 

[Luv Ducks]

And how different people and their attitudes can be. I don't see anybody as wrong on this whatever they do, we all have our own desires, ethics, and guidelines.

I totally agree with you on that.

 

[Morrigan]

My dogs get almost all the leftover chicken around here. The one exception is if I have chicken that got cooked with onion or spicy chilies. The chickens go crazy for those scraps. They don't know those scraps were once a flock mate. Don't ask, don't tell. . .

 

[Folly's place]

I absolutely wouldn't feed raw meat, especially any poultry, from the grocery store. Cooked, fine, not raw. There's a high % of nasty bacterial contamination in commercial raw chicken, it's why we are careful handling it in the kitchen!
And I'm not handling dead raccoons or wild rats enough to want to feed them to my critters either.
My chickens have to catch their own meat out there...
Mary