can you feed chickens small amounts of meat?

[motoclown]

I fed mine live minnows from the creek this summer, at first they didn't know what to do
then when the minnows started flapping around it was game on.

Threw one a baby snake too and it ran away with it as fast as it could and gobbled it down.

I caught a frog or a toad, but it was too cute to feed to the chickens so I let it go.

 

[Ohhhdear]

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The cool thing is you can give your chickens the meat and bones you can't give your dogs. You can't give dogs chicken or pork bones because they splinter when dogs chew on them and those bone splinters will pierce their g.i. tract somewhere and kill your dog. Happened to a gorgeous collie friend that lived next door. Somebody thought they were giving him a treat and tossed him a pork chop bone. The next day his belly was distended and he was in agony and had to be put down.
But chickens..... they'll peck at all the yummy meat scraps and marrow and don't gnaw at the bone.

 

[cluckin tractor]

is it possible for a strain of desease like mad cow to infect chickens eating meat or certian types of it.

imagine the deadly desease called mad chicken if it was possible. not to many people would be happy about that.

 

[Chris09]

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Chickens cant get Mad Cow Disease and the chances are slim that they will catch a Disease from eating meat.


Chris

 

[Organics North]

I had the dog and the chickens standing next to me and the deer carcase as I was processing the deer.. I am not sure if the dog or the chickens were begging more... It was hard to get any work done, I was spending all my time cutting scraps for the chickens and the dog!

ON

 

[TheSawyerFlock]

I feed my hens leftover venison roast - they love it and fight over it! I ditto the concerns about attracting predators though. Since they don't seem to be able to figure out how to pull a large piece apart and share it respectfully with each other, I usually throw little scraps out to them and watch them eat each one, that way I know that there isn't going to be a big rotting piece of meat sitting there and nothing to attract our little rat friends...

 

[ZooMummzy]

The day after Thanksgiving in our house is "Carcass Day" for the chickens

They pick it clean and run around with all the bones. It's sick but amusing.

 

[gryeyes]

I just started tossing dead mice from a humane rat trap into the yard and watched the game of Keep Away! begin. I started with one mouse, to see..... and now, when the RatZapper gets another mouse, I just dump the carcass in the run instead of in the trash.

The mice are electrocuted, so there's no poison involved. I'm pretty happy with the trap AND the new disposal method!

 

[sesa]

When I butcher the meat birds I boil up all the livers and hearts and such and freeze them. Then I'll defrost a handful every day in the microwave and toss it into my layers run and watch them tear into it.

 

[Kelsey2017]

We got a hand me down flock of girls that had stopped laying to molt and we put the whole, skinned carcass of a deer in the coop after we had cleaned everything we wanted off of it and the gals seriously went to town on it. I have never seen a chicken grow back feathers so fast. They liked it so much that we did it again after they finished the first one. I liked to see that nothing got wasted, it was nothing but bones left. Oh and as a side note, it helped prevent the picking that had started because of adding mature birds who were molting (they were pretty ratty and easy to pick on) to our younger flock. I think it gave them something else to do.