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Because when they do that, they are being used as meat birds and people don’t care if it hurts the chicken’s stomachs.

Yes. Chickens will naturally avoid food they deem not good, so having free choice on what they eat is good. I still wouldn’t recommend giving them access to rotting meat, spoiled milk, moldy food, etc., but the chickens can learn from getting sick to avoid those spoiled foods.

Yeah. The internet really isn’t the best place to find information, but I’d say BYC is rather good at providing true information.

I just read through this thread, and here are my two cents about the whole thing. First of all, I don’t think giving rotten food to any animal is exactly a good thing to do. I mean some animals are made to eat spoiled, rotten, decomposing food, but chickens really aren’t. They can eat things...