Can chickens eat spicy food?

[Girly White Silkie]

That's interesting. How much do they give and can this be done for ducks too??

I'm not sure

 

[Girly White Silkie]

Spices won't hurt the chickens, but the flavors are certainly wasted on them, because chickens only possess a very limited number of taste receptors.

They completely lack the one for capsaicin. It's effectiveness as a wormer is overblown as is touting it as a stimulant for egg laying.

Yum

 

[Girly White Silkie]

As LofMc stated, it doesn't kill the worms in great measure, more of a "I have a healthy bird that likely has a low grade worm load since most birds do, lets give some pepper to help keep the worm load down" type situation. This is not reliable or effective enough to use if you have a known worm problem that is causing the birds issues, just a prevention/very mild wormer type deal.

I don't know for certain if it's ok for ducks, but I believe probably.

Whew!

 

[Girly White Silkie]

X2
Capacin is a very mild wormer that is more for between wormings to help hold it down a bit rather than treatment...I use it mostly to keep rodents out of feed which it does a decent job of.

That's good

 

[centrarchid]

I use the peppers for coloring birds or their egg yolks. The other stuff has not been of interest and my dogs at least have learned to eat feed laced with the stuff.

 

[Girly White Silkie]

I use the peppers for coloring birds or their egg yolks. The other stuff has not been of interest and my dogs at least have learned to eat feed laced with the stuff.

Is it the sweet peppers.

 

[centrarchid]

it does not matter the type. Most of the time I am adding powdered pepper like from chillis. Paprika and Cayenne also used. I mix in as part of diet when collecting hatching eggs, especially late in the season with penned hens.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Years ago on a pretty fall day, my hens ate a whole pepper patch worth of cayenne, and Tabasco peppers that I was allowing to dry out on the pepper plants for next year's seed.

Remember that ripe pepper are red and I ass-u-me that you know how much hens love red.

 

[Molpet]

1/4 TEASPOON of ground cayenne per chicken is the recommended dose.. not sure about ducks, but my turkeys eat the feed... so far the dog hasn't developed a taste for it... and the mice/chipumks stay out of the feed.

 

[Molpet]

Why to protect the feed from rodents?

the rodents can spread disease, https://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/direct.html
take the food and store it until it rots.. I thought they were cute in the wild bird feeder until I was digging a hole and found about 50 lbs of rotting sunflower seeds they had taken and stored.