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    HELP!!! My chicken ate bullets!!!!!!!!

    I contacted the LSU Ag. Center this morning and and spoke to some experts on poultry and exotic birds. I was told that if a chicken were to digest an entire pellet or bullet containing lead they would become very sick in a matter of days. The lead would be ground down by the chicken's gizzard...
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    HELP!!! My chicken ate bullets!!!!!!!!

    NWChicks.... Thank you very much for your reply. Since my chicks will not be ready to lay until October I wonder if the best course of action is to have them tested now or watch their condition and have them tested closer to October as there will be no risk from consumed eggs until then? I...
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    HELP!!! My chicken ate bullets!!!!!!!!

    Wenlow, I am afraid not. I am positive these are lead 30 caliber rifle bullets which are very large. You are refering to shot pellets out of shotguns. Most of these range from extremely small granules to bb size and you are right almost all water fowl hunting now is done with steel shot. Because...
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    HELP!!! My chicken ate bullets!!!!!!!!

    Hi everyone... This is my 1st post and I registered because yall were talking about a topic I am concerned about as well. My chickens may have eaten bullets too! For about a month I had a dirt pile that I shot into and the chickens always picked and scratched on it. It did not hit me until...
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