? about feeding chickens chicken

[gvntofly05]

I'm boiling up some chicken right now to make chicken and noodles for dinner. After I pull most of the meat off the bone can I throw the bones with the connective tissue and skin in the run for my chickens?

 

[DawnSuiter]

If you want to then I would say Yes.

 

[ArizonaNessa]

Yep its good protein and the chickens don't know so don't worry lol I read on here somewhere about someone putting out the leftover lobster parts too.

 

[gkeesling]

We do that all the time now. I didn't know that when I first got chickens, but they will clean a carcass down to just the bones pretty quickly. We put our boiled chicken, turkey, rabbit carcasses out to them. I didn't know they were such cannibals.

 

[gvntofly05]

Thanks everyone! It looks like my chickens are going to get a good treat today!

 

[rainbowgardens]

Be sure to pick up the bones when they're through with them if you have dogs. Don't want them getting hurt.

 

[Ghostchick]

I heard this is good for them, but I just can't bring myself to do it! It just grosses me out!!! Bleck!

 

[Amethyste]

They are omnivores...if it is edible and they are hungry, they WILL try it! I have seen chickens head first in a deer carcass going to town on the meat and flies <this was a somewhat fresh kill btw>. I have also seen them go nuts over hotdogs and McD's cheeseburgers lol They LOVE meat... I think it is an instinct in them to eat protein...othewise why would they go nuts over catching bugs, frogs, lizards, and mice?

I would never give a vegetarian animal <ie cows> meat, cos they were not meant to eat it. Chickens tho? Yup...I give them meat scraps and they love it and have had no issues. As my grandad used to say... "Put a dead cow in a field and the other cows stay away. Put a dead chicken in the coop and the chickens will get their knives and forks. It's how they are put together!"

If they were w/out humans to feed them... you can bet they would be eating anything they could catch....or come across. I have yet to see a chicken who chose to be vegan!

 

[Chickenmaven]

My chooks adore any bones I throw them.