Could (or should) i feed deceased predators to my chickens?

[Foxinthehenhouse]

This has been years ago but I had chicks in a cage in the barn, I came in and found most were dead with no heads. I looked around and saw a big feral cat up in the rafters. Well I dispatched it and thru it on my burn pile to burn later in the day. When I came back to the barn the chickens had pretty much eaten it.
So long story short......go for it!

 

[SarahGfa]

Pretty gross stuff but I can respect it. I prefer tossing most of my cat kills over the fence.

It is not as gross as it sounds. You can start a maggot bin with just chicken litter and kitchen scraps, and eventually work your way up to dead animals and humanure (this is real). Once you see how much your chickens love maggots, it feels like a sin to let any maggot food go to waste

 

[Kiwibird]

Thinking on this I'd suggest that taking that raw meat and having it converted into protein via maggots for the hens would result in 90% reduction in available protein, however, the advantages would be a reduced chance of your hens getting worms from the predators.

Insects can also serve as alternate hosts for parasites. Cooking or freezing serendipitous forms of raw meat before feeding it to poultry are the best ways to prevent parasite transmission.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

X2

 

[Don 27]

Well I don't feel comfortable feeding my layers dead animals. But my game fowl eat that stuff all the time I have a dead animal pile so that's where they hang out.

 

[jeepgirl13]

Well I don't feel comfortable feeding my layers dead animals. But my game fowl eat that stuff all the time I have a dead animal pile so that's where they hang out.

what?!

You have a dead animal PILE?
Why you got so many dead animals?

Part me of fascinated, part is rolling laughing, and part is going "yuck, that smell!"

 

[Don 27]

Lots of trapping for protection! lots of work. It worth it

 

[Don 27]

what?!

You have a dead animal PILE?
Why you got so many dead animals?

Part me of fascinated, part is rolling laughing, and part is going "yuck, that smell!"

That's funny

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

what?!

You have a dead animal PILE?
Why you got so many dead animals?

Reminds me of the time the time I went to a park in Alaska many years ago, and at the entryway, there was a printed sign that said something like "Caution, recent bear mauling in area."

The person I was with was like "Oh, it's awful that that happened" I was like "It is...but I'm concerned that it happens often enough that they HAVE A SIGN!".

I could see them calling in a order to the sign company "Yeah, we need 2 stops, a yield, and three 'bear maulings'"

So yeah, that's what "dead animal pile" makes me think of.

 

[Don 27]

Reminds me of the time the time I went to a park in Alaska many years ago, and at the entryway, there was a printed sign that said something like "Caution, recent bear mauling in area."

The person I was with was like "Oh, it's awful that that happened" I was like "It is...but I'm concerned that it happens often enough that they HAVE A SIGN!".

I could see them calling in a order to the sign company "Yeah, we need 2 stops, a yield, and three 'bear maulings'"

So yeah, that's what "dead animal pile" makes me think of.

oh boy that's funny