Chooks Pigged Out On BOSS! Any danger in that?

[Barry Natchitoches]

I was so busy last night that I took an open, 2 gallon bucket full of black oil sunflower seeds out into the henhouse and then left it there -- in the open -- for about 16 hours.


Do you know what happens when you leave an open, 2 gallon bucket full of BOSS in reach of 12 hens and one rooster?


Those feathered pigs ate a full half of the bucket by the time my wife found the problem.


Is there any danger with chooks pigging out on BOSS?

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

I don't think it would be a problem. Mine eat it all the time. They probably loved it!

 

[mulewagon]

Fat, happy chickens! With expensive, oily poop...

 

[teach1rusl]

Nawwww...you wouldn't want them to do that everyday of course

But one day of gluttony won't kill them.

 

[gryeyes]

I left a bag o' BOSS out, but always curled the open bag top back down as I used it.

Yeah, right. Today I noticed it was open, on its side, and the bag was moving.

Inside it was a very happy little bantam EE pullet.

So, being perverse - no, I did not close her inside it! - I left the bag there, open. Every time I go out and check, there's a different chicken in it. I WISH I'd had my camera when I saw the rooster's tail hanging out of it! Carl is a huge rooster, and he was all hunkered down with just those glorious beetle-green-black tailfeathers visible.

 

[TheSpiceGirls]

Their crops must have been HUGE!!!

 

[junglebird]

laffin!

Funny posts!

 

[ryanhodapp]

good question, because I have been concerned with feeding too much BOSS at bedtime.
I put a couple of good handfuls in at night for 4 regular and 2 bantums.
is that enough or should I give them more?

Marlene