Dog food?

[pattgal]

I had to put my dog down yesterday, I noticed the chickens cleaned off the kibbles n bits I had put outside for him
It got me thinking maybe I could feed the rest of the bag to them??
any thoughts on this?

 

[hennyannie]

I have seen on here where people are giving the chicken some dogfood. Also a local where I live buys it for his chickens. I personally only give mine laying crumble and veggies. I would think about that dogfood when I was eating eggs! LOL

 

[FoodKillah]

Quote:
I just lost my appetite

 

[krcote]

Everything in moderation

 

[pattgal]

Quote:
I just lost my appetite

I know how you feel, my mom wont eat my eggs because they are free ranged. she dosen't eat anything unless it comes out of the store
I was just wondering if the dog food is safe for them to eat
I try not to think about the slugs they eat in the summer, but I really appreciate the bug control.

 

[donrae]

Our chickens ate a fantastic amount of dogfood before we realized they were doing it. We've banned them from the garage for over a year, but still, every time someone leaves the door open, they're right there, hoping for a dogfood buffet. These were the bigger, large dog chuncks, too. Never had a problem, unless you count chicken junkies as a problem!

My chickens turn a lot of things I don't want to think about into eggs for me. I eat them anyway, that's how it's supposed to be

 

[cubalaya]

X2

 

[dragonjaze]

see, the chickens eat the nasty stuff and turn it into eggs for you to eat.

otherwise, you'd have to eat the slugs and dog food yourself...

there, that should help your appetite, right?

 

[DenverBird]

Sounds like another very good protein source to me as long as it doesn't impart a flavor to the eggs

. I mix bacon grease into the feed during cold weather but haven't been lucky enough to have bacon flavored eggs yet....

-DB

 

[BellevueOmlet]

I would not feed them dog food, especially kibbles and bits. The cheap dog foods put horrible things in the food that are unfit for humans. If you feed it to the chickens, it ends up right back in your body. Look up what is allowed to be put in dog "food" and you will not want to feed it to your chickens.

Animal By-Products
Animal by-products are also commonly used in dog foods. These are parts of an animal that are left-overs from
the human food chain. They can include intestines, chicken heads, lungs, livers, kidneys, duckbills, chicken
and turkey feet, feathers and bone. Ingredients listed as chicken, beef, poultry, and animal by-products are not
required to include actual meat. The following ingredients are things to watch out for when selecting a dog
food.

Animal Digest:
Material that results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and un-decomposed animal tissue. The animal tissues used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and shall be suitable for animal feed.

Animal Fat: Is obtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used
as a preservative".

‘animal fat’ is a euphemism for a low-quality, lowpriced mix of fats of uncertain origin. If the ingredient panel doesn’t tell you which animal an ingredient came
from, don’t buy the food. Animal fat can also be preserved with BHA, which is an artificial preservative suspected of causing cancer.

Meat By-Products: The non-rendered, clean parts, other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It
includes, but is not limited to lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially defatted lowtemperature
fatty tissue and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include hair, horns,
teeth and hooves.

Chicken By-Product Meal: Consists of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered
chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts
as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.