Chocolate?? Is it dangerous for chickens?

[Frozen Feathers]

Just want to know since my DD is famous for sharing anything she's eating with the pets.

 

[silkiechicken]

Well, people say not to but I've given mine dried up doubble chocolate brownies before to no ill effects. My birds are real junk eaters though.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

In general I think chocolate is considered poisonous to most animals. However, that said, I also believe that in small enough amounts it won't kill any animals. Chocolate is supposed to be deadly poisonous to cats -- even in tiny amounts -- but I have a cat who busted into a saran-wrapped brownie and nibbled off a fairly large corner, to no apparent ill effect.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I know I've been told never to feed it to my cockatoo or cockatiels.....

 

[Buff Hooligans]

If you give them too much, your chickens will start asking "do these feathers make my butt look big?"

 

[MissPrissy]

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lmao@ BuffHooligans

 

[Frozen Feathers]

Buff!

DD was trying to feed Hazel some MM's...she'd never dream of sharing them with me.

So I just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to kill the birds if a MM does somehow get snuck past me.

 

[wegotchickens]

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When I had Puff-n-Stuff she used to climb up me to steal part of any Crunch bar I was eating. She didn't like any other kind of chocolate, but would chew her way through a shopping bag to get to a Crunch bar. Neither the bag nor the chocolate did immedate harm, although she did die of cancer at the ripe old age of 16....

 

[DrakeMaiden]

wegotchickens -- it was probably all that plastic she chewed through that gave her cancer.

(Not laughing about the cancer, but all the plastic bags she probably worked her way through).

 

[dlhunicorn]

Chocolate of any kind is very toxic to birds