Does anyone feed fish eggs to their chickens?

[hickchick55]

My DH coming home with steelhead spawn (pure protein). My peeps aren't even a week old, so I wouldn't feed it to them yet, but I could see them liking those little orange balls. Anyone try it?

 

[FireTigeris]

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If I had it id do it...

I feed 'fish scrap' to mine about once a week.

 

[debid]

Caviar for peeps! Sounds great.

 

[ralleia]

I think that I've attempted it before with my mature chickens (we eat salmon roe on rice, and sometimes you can't finish a bowl). From what I remember they weren't too fond of the stuff--it tastes like salty fish-juice.

It would probably be pretty good for them if you can make it palatable. If I have leftovers I'll give it a shot and report back.

 

[AccentOnHakes]

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I personally have never liked salmon eggs--too salty and kind of sour.

Now the little ones(flying fish and the like) now those are good! Sweet and crunchy.

I'm thinking that steelhead would be similar to salmon, though.

 

[CluckyJay]

If they won't eat them--freeze the eggs as feed for something else. I use roe for my animals when my hubby goes fishing. I forget the ones he catches--they are pretty big and have lots of teeth. Really tasty and not too fishy. I didn't try the roe for myself though, yuck. Maybe you could dehydrate the roe to mix in with feed?