Are cranberries okay for chickens?

[cochin_kookoo]

I had some cranberries go bad and want to feed them to my flock but I didn't know if cranberries are an okay food. It seemed random so if anybody knows that would be great. I will not feed the berries to them until I hear back.

 

[EweSheep]

Yep you can feed it to them. I feed mine cranberry jelly and they went ape over it!

 

[SteveBaz]

Absolutely a great food but to much of anything rule. Balance is the secret.

 

[Imp]

Depends on what you mean by "go bad". Chickens are suseptible to food borne illness. I would not feed them anything I would not eat myself. Moldy, spoiled, rotten foods are not a good idea.

Imp

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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I agree with Imp.

 

[mojomamma]

I fed mine a lot of cranberries around Thanksgiving, right out of the bag, 1 of the hens loved them so much she would just swallow them whole!