Chicken fishing???

[simply blessed]

Just curious if anyone has or knows a reason not to give live fry to chickens as a treat. If breeding goes as planned we will have too many tilapia babies / guppies to house to adulthood and thought of putting them in a shallow dish for chickens to catch. Thought they'd be nutritious, hilarious to watch the hens catch them

, and would be a better use for the fry than compost. Also wondering about water bugs and minnows. (Kids would have fun catching those for them.) Is there a wrong size? I don't want to choke the poor birds! Thanks for any advice or thoughts!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Chickens are omnivors so there is no problem for them to eat and diagest fish. So you can give them fish I think that you should cut them to small peaces for safety reasons only.

 

[canesisters]

I don't see any difference between giving them little fish and giving them grasshoppers, worms, june bugs.
Enjoy! Should be a good afternoon for all (except the fish)

 

[CrazyTalk]

I've heard of funky tasking eggs from too much fishmeal/fishfood/etc, but if you're only giving them as treats, I don't think you'll have a problem.

 

[simply blessed]

Good point! Hadn't thought of that! Thanks!