anyone else feed road kill?

[rufus]

This kind of makes me wonder what would happen to you if, God forbid, you happen to faint of pass out in the chicken yard. Just what would be left of you when the hens got done with you.

Rufus

 

[lightfoot]

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depends on how many chicks you have in the yard. remember they go for soft parts first, cover your eyes before you fall and try to fall face down.

 

[draye]

Haven't read through the whole thing but:

I personally can't see how anyone can say it's so wrong, or that it's not natural. In nature, if a flock of chickens came across some roadkill, they would eat it, just as nature intended. Chickens are scavengers whether we like to think so or not. Whenever I go into the run to do some maintenance, there are always about a dozen geckos hanging out, which I then swipe of the walls. As fast as what they are, not one has ever escaped the chickens. Free protein, and exceptionally good for the birds.

Having said all that, I do think I would be a bit hesitant when it comes to rodents, but that's just because I see them as being dirty creatures. Of course a squirrel is not a rat, and in my mind, it's a far cleaner animal than a rat, but I suppose there may be some risk of spreading disease, but a very small risk at best.

I agree with this, All of you whor freerange your chickens, do you know everything that they eat? Even cooped chickens usually have mice and other critters running thourgh ther pens that they usually catch and eat, how would a squirrel be any different? Just my thought. By the way don't know if I would have stopped to pick it up to feed to them specifically.​

 

[KellyHM]

Chicken.Lytle :

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Maybe you don't know what's in your commercially packaged chicken feed, much less cat and dog food. Animals that were euthanized at shelters (we're talking cats and dogs), animals that died at veterinary hospitals or in feed lots or commercial chicken houses...many are trucked over to the rendering plant, where they are melted down and then sprayed onto animal feed for flavoring. Not much better than roadkill.

You are right. Industry collects up all sorts of protein sources (eg. roadkill) for animal feed. My hope is that the slurm gets sanitized during rendering or by the steam as it passes though the extruder.​

Ummm...you do realize that if euthanized animals were actually fed to other animals that those animals would die too, right? Hence the LAWS saying you have to bury a horse/cow/whatever that's been euthanized...otherwise the birds/bald eagles/etc eat it and subsequently die. I don't know where you guys hear these things.

 

[andrea98]

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You are right. Industry collects up all sorts of protein sources (eg. roadkill) for animal feed. My hope is that the slurm gets sanitized during rendering or by the steam as it passes though the extruder.

Ummm...you do realize that if euthanized animals were actually fed to other animals that those animals would die too, right? Hence the LAWS saying you have to bury a horse/cow/whatever that's been euthanized...otherwise the birds/bald eagles/etc eat it and subsequently die. I don't know where you guys hear these things.

ok i use to work at a vets office & there were times the owner of the euthanized pet did not want to take it home with them (alot changed their minds once the found out where their pet was going) .. well do you know where they went??? yep right in the dumpster to go to the dump, where they could be picked off of by anything that may come across them. so what about the animals that came across them????

 

[andrea98]

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hahahaha

 

[KellyHM]

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Ummm...you do realize that if euthanized animals were actually fed to other animals that those animals would die too, right? Hence the LAWS saying you have to bury a horse/cow/whatever that's been euthanized...otherwise the birds/bald eagles/etc eat it and subsequently die. I don't know where you guys hear these things.

ok i use to work at a vets office & there were times the owner of the euthanized pet did not want to take it home with them (alot changed their minds once the found out where their pet was going) .. well do you know where they went??? yep right in the dumpster to go to the dump, where they could be picked off of by anything that may come across them. so what about the animals that came across them????

Obviously the place you worked wasn't kosher or up to normal standards, not to mention legal. All of ours go to a cremation company.

 

[Mahonri]

Probably one of the most entertaining threads I've read from post one to here in a LONG time.

I suppose if funds were low and my chickens needed the protien, I might do it.

But for now... NO WAY!!!

 

[andrea98]

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ok i use to work at a vets office & there were times the owner of the euthanized pet did not want to take it home with them (alot changed their minds once the found out where their pet was going) .. well do you know where they went??? yep right in the dumpster to go to the dump, where they could be picked off of by anything that may come across them. so what about the animals that came across them????

Obviously the place you worked wasn't kosher or up to normal standards, not to mention legal. All of ours go to a cremation company.

it was 12 yrs ago. i dont kno whow the rules are now. but i do know where my pets will go .. righ tback home with me & right in my own yard

 

[sydney13]

anyone want to see pics

ive never seen the chickens go crazier

their been fed turkey scraps and other leftover meat before but they never acted like this. I don't really agree with not feeding meat for the reason it would end up in the eggs. all chickens who are allowed will eat bugs and even mice but no one worries about those ending up their eggs.
it does seem strange that people say euthanized animals are allowed to be put in commercial feeds

I would think after all the medicines they where pumped up with, it would be unsafe for animal animal to eat it