anyone else feed road kill?

[Ariel301]

Chicken.Lytle :

Considering that I eat what my hens produce, NO WAY!

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.

Chickens don't get rabies, it only infects mammals.

've fed dead frogs and such to the birds,but as far as actual roadkill I have fed it to the hogs.No I'm not talking about Wilbur or Babe type hogs.I mean 400+pound hogs we catch up hunting.They absolutely love eating meat.We just make sure no one falls in while feeding...

First it is illegal to feed meat to hogs in most states.

Commercial hogs going to be sold to the public, maybe. If you're eating them yourself, you can feed them whatever you like.​

 

[deerman]

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Before i feed the chickens the dead squirrel I did happen to check the liver and it was reddish so it must have been pretty fresh. Ive read about commercial dog, cat, and poultry feeds containing road kill so feeding fresh road kill can't be much worse then some of the not so good commercial brands. eating a freshly killed deer seems like a great way to good free meat

I personally don't see why people have such a problem with feeding chickens raw meat as long as its safe, its what they eat in nature after all.

Because raw meat carry diseases, cooking it will kill most,

 

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[Lifesong Farm]

If it is fresh I don't see a problem with it. But then again I have caught my girls out on the road eating it. So one way or another they will get it.

On a side note when I butcher I let them pick through the remains before I discard them.

 

[SycolinWoodsChickens]

We don't feed ours roadkill but I know if they could get to it they would eat it. We are overrun with mice in our field and our chooks free range. They catch and eat mice all the time plus ticks, crickets, stink bugs and anything else they can get to. They prefer it over their pellets. And our eggs are fine, taste fine, smell fine and no one has ever gotten sick from them.

 

[rolffamily]

Great new marketing concept! Label your egg cartons "Fed With Fresh Roadkill". Let us know how it works.

 

[darkmatter]

Fresh roadkill for the chickens? I think not---------until I've finished with it, then they can have the leavings.
By the way, I once saw a fresh roadkilled squirrel in town that a car stopped and picked it up with a napkin into the car-------it was the owner's wife of the local oriental restaurant-----true story, what do you think became of the squirrel?

 

[Lifesong Farm]

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Eeeeeewwwwwww

My problem is I live right on a highway and the only time I have a problem with the critters getting on the road is when there is roadkill around. The chickens, dogs and cats have ALL been caught feasting. What's gross is whn they the fur kids want to come up and give kisses afterwards.

 

[chicks4kids]

I have scraped an opossum/coon or two off of the road for fear that the neighbors dog (poor little guy) will go out to eat the darn thing ( and get hit)....they already lost one dog to scavenging on the road and I had to take the still alive yet hit dog to their door...that was a sad, sad story. Anyway......

So I scrape the road kill out from in front of my house (all be it super far)onto the side so other 'whatevers' don't get hit, I DO do that, but like I said before.......Eeeww

...I'll pay WHATEVER to feed my girls layer feed! Call me a hyprocrit, I don't care....I'm not gonna throw my girls the coon that was just hit on the road...........and I buy my feed from the local feed mill-I get a handwritten layout of whats in my feed....there's no dead squirrel, coon, or opossum in it.

I've also shot many a coon...never once crossed my mind to throw the darn thing into the run.

I totally agree with LifesongFarm...I have a beagle that LOVES to eat whatever he can find in the woods when he takes off from home and then wants kisseys........gross!! Although I love him, and know that he loves the bliss that he has been in, I still won't go out and scrape up a roadkill for him or the girls...no way...no how.

To each his own....

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

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This is funny. I can't remember what it was my husband brought home that a car in front of him had hit, but we ate it and we got made fun of for a long time. I think it was a wild turkey.