Cigarette Addict...

[mtnhomechick]

I doubt a couple would hurt her........but I in no way defend it. Just saying........some of the things a chicken comes accross in an average days ranging might be as bad.

I wouldn't panic. She'll probably be fine if she doesn't keep getting them.

I ran accross a headless snake today and I know where the head went. LOL

 

[jjthink]

I agree. Hopefully she'll be okay with what she has ingested thus far - just try to avoid her eating any more of that nasty stuff....
I really feel for the ones at the bottom of the totem pole - extra hugs sent her way!

JJ

 

[spook]

I have heard that giving dogs and cats tabacco to treat some types of worms. I DO NOT DO THIS because of all the chemicals and health issues that these can create for our pet children. If you can find the butts that your bro drops, grab them before your girls do or keep the girls under lock until he leaves. Good ole 21, oh its been a long time since I've seen that. Also talk to your parents about the potential harm this could be causing your girls and flavoring their eggs!

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Thank you all. I really need this support.

JJ:

My parents have tried I guess, but they're already in their 50's while i'm still a teenager. You can imagine what would happen. Plus, my brother is a rebel.

spook:

I don't know if he'll ever leave. I hope he does. Yesterday I couldn't even tell what was a cig butt since there were orange-ish leaves everywhere. But sure enough SHE had to find one.

 

[ivan3]

Our chooks have never grabbed up any, but our Slate turkey hen (when still a `little' jenny) scarfed a visitor's -dragged-out, but still lit, butt snatching it from between her fingers! Scurrying away trailing tiny red embers!

I'm in my 50's and, back in the day (here it comes) HS biology included a demonstration of the `dangers' of smoking/nicotine by the teacher smoking an unfiltered Lucky Strike through a folded kleenex. The teacher crushed the butt, tore the nicotine/tar stained patch out of the kleenex and stuffed it into an underdeveloped bullfrog's mouth.

Everyone in class stared at the now poisoned amphibian. Sure enough, it started to `tighten' up, tremble and then seize. it then stretched out rolled over on one side and died (took about ten minutes and everyone was pretty much transfixed by the frog's agonies and ignored the teacher's continued lecturing).
After class, fellow classmates, who had picked up the filthy habit already, `hopped' to it to get behind the gym because the demonstration left them needing a smoke `real bad'

We were kinda `smokin'' ourselves, a sight more than a bit miffed... But, the hen remained symptom free, though her breath smelled like an ashtray for three days (slight burn on her tongue). Anyone who comes over and wants to smoke has to walk all the way down to the road and then `field strip' the butt...

I think the fact that the nicotine from a single cigarette butt enters the bloodstream of a large enough chook/turk more slowly than amphibians/mammals (crop/gizzard acting like dose metering devices) might keep them from the drooling pukes and twitching. If the dose is high enough nicotine replaces the acetylcholine at neuromuscular receptor sites and, given a substantial enough dose, both a chook and a human's nervous system are `shorted' and death follows quickly.

Don't worry too much, cigs will be taxed out of the legal market real soon now.

 

[silkiechicken]

Best of luck. Don't be too hard on your parents. Mine were in their 5o's during my teen years and I'm the oldest. Kick your bro in the rear, that's what I'd do! J/k. Good luck!

 

[Cetawin]

Tell your inconsiderate brother that the chickens do not poop on his plate so stop putting butts on their scratch area.

I and DH are smokers but you will NEVER see a butt on the ground, we smoke outside and have an ashtray outside, the butts are field stripped and tossed in the trash cash. It is just rude and inconsiderate on his part. They will eat them or try them if they see them.

 

[Cetawin]

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Doubtful. it is an addiction that is ran by tons of money backing it....it will never happen. Not to mention that the government is not stupid enough to even think about tell smokers they are now illegal.

 

[Attack Chicken]

I get on my parents about throwing trash on the ground.. They never seem to listen though. Makes me very mad sometimes. Everything smells like smoke in our house.

 

[AllChookUp]

I really struggle with people throwing cigarette butts on the ground. treating the earth as their ashtray. I'm not a tree-hugger by any means, but I drives me nuts. I have several stories about run-ins with people when I've challenged them about tossing butts.

As far as your chicken, it can't be doing it any good. Tar, nicotine, filter & paper. I think it'll be OK for now, but you don't want it eating any more. Plus the chicken could choke.