anyone else feed road kill?

[easttxchick]

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hahahaha

I must say, though, if you did, it would be at least, some vindication for all of the chickens that those blasted coons have taken out. A little justice, so to speak.

Turnabout is fair play and all that!

Just kidding, I would be too disgusted to pick up roadkill to feed my birds.

 

[Delmar]

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I'm not sure I would want to give my chickens a taste for raw meat. I would through it in the crock pot first.

 

[dinahmoe]

when old timers used to catch coons or possum killing their chickens they would kill thenm and feed them back to their chickens-just like the other guy said a little payback.
that is if the old timers didn't eat it first.you know us in the south,if it caught its edible.

i used to raise ball pythons and always ordered frozen rats/mice.i had 100 pinky mice left after i sold out of snakes.i thawed them and the chickens went crazy over them.

i also used to have alot of anoles running aroung until i let my chickens free range.the are rough with a lizard.

anyway,back to the topic-sorry



we need to start a new topic-what is the nastiest thing your chciken ate...that would be fun to read

 

[FlipFlopFarmer]

I think back to to all the restaurants I have eaten at, and where all that hormone induced beef, chemically treated vegetables, and lord knows what else comes from. Road kill isnt something I thought of until now, but since its nice and cool out now, i will certainly keep a shovel and a bag in my truck and report back here if something useful turns up!....... Not all parts of living green and more earth/health conscious are cute and cuddly! Good Idea, and cudos for thinking outside the box, I always applaud anyone that fights the urge to be a lemming!

 

[BlackBart]

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Anybody who has eaten at McDonald's shouldn't worry about a chicken eating road kill.

 

[jcbydesign]

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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.

In animal shelters they don't use injection to euthanize - so no chemicals - and they ARE picked up by rendering plants. The only animals that are cremated are the ones that are brought in to vets and paid to be euthanized by pet owners, otherwise it's the vacuum chamber.

 

[jcbydesign]

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I'm not sure I would want to give my chickens a taste for raw meat. I would through it in the crock pot first.

They already have a taste for raw meat - mice, crickets, bugs and worms are all raw. Having said that I don't know if I'd actually stop to pick it up unless I was the one who killed it.

 

[sydney13]

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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.

In animal shelters they don't use injection to euthanize - so no chemicals - and they ARE picked up by rendering plants. The only animals that are cremated are the ones that are brought in to vets and paid to be euthanized by pet owners, otherwise it's the vacuum chamber.

what do they use then to euthanize them?

 

[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.

In animal shelters they don't use injection to euthanize - so no chemicals - and they ARE picked up by rendering plants. The only animals that are cremated are the ones that are brought in to vets and paid to be euthanized by pet owners, otherwise it's the vacuum chamber.

Not the animal shelters around here...been there, done that, and they use euthasol just like any other vet.

 

[abhaya]

as long as it it fresh what is the difference how it got dead. I love venison. Does it taste different hit by a car then it does if shot by a hunter? I dont think so. By the way I just picked up a road kill pumpkin on the way home from the store the gals love it.