Coffee Grounds??

[Chicabee19]

coffee has some value for humans. Decaf grounds probably would not hurt a chicken.

http://www.cobblestonecoffee.com/content-21-7065.html

 

[mjdtexan]

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Never seen or heard of a compost tumbler. Would like to see pictures of that. Besides tumble, what does it do? Sorry for the hijack.

 

[Chicabee19]

Here is an excellent web page describing composters:

http://www.composters.com/compost-tumblers.php

 

[hinky toes]

My chickens are nutty enough as it is. I can't imagine them hopped up on caffeine.

 

[curliet]

don't want to hijack the thread, but I liked the article on coffee. I drink a lot of it, and someone is always telling me I should cut down. Now I have some comebacks, hehe.

 

[Bassleg]

Why would you want to feed your chickens coffee grounds??

 

[ibpboo]

I put my coffee grounds into the worm bin. Worms need a layer of paper, usually newspaper over the top of all their veggies and coffee grounds they get, but I do not take the newspaper, so the filters work wonders. Worms eat anything that has once grown.

 

[Chicabee19]

In the first famous nurse study, the nurses who drank coffee rated their lives "more satisfying".

A Harvard study of almost 122,000 nurses found that those who drank coffee had lower rates of breast cancer than those who drank no coffee.

I know my day is not as good without a cup or two!

Here is an interesting article:

A new study of coffee and diabetes (Jan 2004) has shown that men who drank 6 cups of coffee a day reduced their chances of developing type-2 diabetes by half, and women who drank the same amount cut their risk by 30 percent. 126,000 people filled out questionnaires over the past 12-18 years with information about their coffee intake and other health questions.

In earlier studies, Dutch researchers discovered that there are compounds in coffee that aid the body's metabolism of sugar. Their study involved 17,000 men and women in the Netherlands. The results were published in November 2002, in the journal Lancet.

According to their study, people who drank 7 cups a day (or more) were 50% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Drinking less coffee had less of an impact on diabetes onset. Researchers are still looking at the connection between coffee and diabetes, and caution people that 7 cups of coffee per day is enough to create other health problems.

A number of older studies have shown that caffeine may increase your risk of developing diabetes. The theory is that the beneficial chemicals are able to offset the damage done by the caffeine. So drinking decaffeinated coffee would be the best bet if you are thinking of drinking coffee to prevent diabetes.

Tea also has an effect on diabetes. Drinking tea can improve insulin activity up to 15 times, and it can be black, green or oolong. Herbal teas don't have any effect. The active compounds don't last long in the body, so you would have to drink a cup or more of tea every few hours to maintain the benefit. The catch is that you should drink it without milk (even soy milk), because milk seems to interact with the necessary chemicals and render them unavailable to your body.

References
Drinking Coffee May Ward Off Diabetes
Coffee May Lower Diabetes Risk
Heavy Coffee Drinking Lowers Diabetes Risk
Tea Gives Boost to Insulin
Coffee Can Cut Diabetes Risk

 

[Suess hens]

I was told not to give caffeine or avocados to any bird species. I think chickens are birds, so I have never intentionally given coffee grounds to my birds. But i know they have had to have a few bites of the grounds in the compost pile because they love to dig through there and pick out the bugs. Could explain why one of them seems to freak out if I don't let her out, she must be having caffeine withdrawal.

 

[Flocking Crazy]

Does anyone have evidence of caffeine being bad for chickens. I can appreciate anecdotal but i have heard more lack of interest than poor outcomes/decrease production. love my little chicks so obviously don't want to harm but also don't want to arrange two separate compost pile. Thank you