Cat food for chickens?

[Chris09]

18-20% Is great, the range of protein on most cat food is 30-35%.

I believe that the OP is referring to the cat food as a supplement/top dress as one would use Calf Manna, Poultry Cell, Poultry Booster, 58% Protein Supplement etc.

Chris

 

[Chris09]

I occasionally give dried and rehydrated cat food to my chickens when they are in times of high stress e.g after moulting (and in small amount).

BUT and for me that's a very big BUT, is to ensure that there is no poultry in the dried food, Cannibalism (proteins sourced from meat from cows) probably led to BSE in this country and millions of cattle were slaughtered.

Now I'm not aware of a similar prion disease in chickens, but maybe it is only a matter of time.

If you are going to use cat food, ensure it doesn't mean your chooks will be eating bits of their dead cousins.

Quote:
Bovine are Herbivores (plant eaters)
Chickens are Omnivores (Meat and Plant eaters)

Chickens can eat chicken with NO ill affects.



Chris

 

[pgpoultry]

Chickens will be infected by species-specific prions if they eat other chickens. It is nothing to do with the fact that chickens are natural omnivores.

 

[Chris09]

Chickens will be infected by species-specific prions if they eat other chickens. It is nothing to do with the fact that chickens are natural omnivores.

Not unless you are feeding RAW Infected poultry back to you birds.

Chris

 

[pgpoultry]

Nope that's not true either, some prions are very heat resistant

 

[Christie Rhae]

Nope that's not true either, some prions are very heat resistant

In nature, chickens would eat chicken. In nature, a cow or horse would starve to death before it would eat a cow or horse. I would never feed my chickens chicken that I would not eat. lol

 

[Chris09]

Nope that's not true either, some prions are very heat resistant

You should really do some research on Meat Meal /Meat and Bone Meal before going any further.

Chris

 

[psycoforsilkies]

Ok i am looking for a cat food to supplement for my chickens, what brands are others feeding?

 

[Cebarmlds]

PetGuard brand cat food, it's natural etc. cats and chickens love it

 

[LaynaDon95]

I would hesitate to give cat food to chickens because is contains chicken... Blech. I don't think it would harm them at all just... It seems so wrong. If it was my only option then sure, but it's not so I'm not feeding it to mine.