Don't feed your chickens ,Chicken

[PurpleChicken]

Me and my chickens just sacrificed a rooster to the chicken god.
In order to come closer to their diety they must eat the heart,
liver and feathers of the sacrificial chicken. They ate it all. I think
it may be a sign.

 

[PortageGirl]

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Yer a goof!

 

[redhen]

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PC, you've stopped your meds again, havent you????

 

[PurpleChicken]

What? Redhen you are close enough to see the volcano.

Portage, please stop talking to my wife.

 

[patandchickens]

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I don't know about you but to me raw beef and cooked taste TOTALLY different. (I am not going to try raw chicken

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Also, look at the number of people out there who feed cooked meat and have not had any problems. In fact I can't honestly recall ever seeing a book say that feeding cooked meat *could* promote cannibalism (there is probably some book somewhere, but I don't believe it's a very ubiquitous sentiment). (Books sometimes warn against excess protein for other reasons)

If you (I mean, not you specifically, but anyone in general) are keeping your chickens in highly stressful conditions, overcrowded and bored and so forth, then maybe you might want to be super cautious about the meat thing... but it seems to me the major solution would lie in correcting the OTHER problems that are quite well documented to promote cannibalism.

So I dunno. Armchair theorizing about how chickens think or what they might do is 'fun', but I think that looking around you at what people do, and what happens from it, has to kind of take precedence. And while I'll agree there are some theoretical grounds for avoiding poultry meat, or meat in general (even tho chickens do naturally eat some meat when they can), I really dunno how compelling the argument necessairly is.

JMO,

Pat

 

[ricky bamboo]

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feeding egg shells doesn't promote egg eating either.

 

[PortageGirl]

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feeding egg shells doesn't promote egg eating either.

Agreed! It takes one goofy hen that pecks -everything-, or one soft egg that gets cracked IN the nest. Once one hen discovers that cracked egg and starts -feeding-, more do the 'chicken see, chicken do' routine, and then you have a problem.

Eggshells in the compost area they all scratch around in would trigger egg-eating, they just can't tell what is what very well I think. Round eggs in the nest aren't the same as those funny rolly things in the compost that crunch. If they don't start it by accident IN the nest, shells out of the nest environment are not the same as eggs IN the nest environment. All my opinion, observation and experience for what it's worth.

 

[Attack Chicken]

I feed my chickens chicken lol

 

[RW19290]

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Who WOULD feed their chickens, chickens? It's gross and wrong

 

[Buster]

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Who WOULD feed their chickens, chickens? It's gross and wrong

Nahh, just extra protein. Try not giving them enough protein and they'll start eating each other anyway.