Can chickens eat spicy food?

[Girly White Silkie]

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.

Is it spicy?

 

[Girly White Silkie]

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.

Must be delicious

 

[Girly White Silkie]

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.

Yum

 

[Girly White Silkie]

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.

Yeah

 

[Cryss]

I grow various varieties of hot peppers. I am going to assume I can feed them to.my chickens fresh. I also dehydrate them for preservation so I am assuming once again I can crush and feed those too. Also assuming it doesn't matter which type of hot pepper.
I know, I know....ass-u-me.

 

[Bridger Davis]

All of that will be fine. It doesn't matter the kind or fresh or dried. I would sugguest chopping them though. ANyways, I think you are in the clear @Cryss

 

[Girly White Silkie]

I grow various varieties of hot peppers. I am going to assume I can feed them to.my chickens fresh. I also dehydrate them for preservation so I am assuming once again I can crush and feed those too. Also assuming it doesn't matter which type of hot pepper.
I know, I know....ass-u-me.

Yummy

 

[Girly White Silkie]

All of that will be fine. It doesn't matter the kind or fresh or dried. I would sugguest chopping them though. ANyways, I think you are in the clear @Cryss

Ok

 

[speedy2020]

I add pepper flake to keep them warm during winter months.

 

[Girly White Silkie]

I add pepper flake to keep them warm during winter months.

Ok