Feeding chicken livers to chickens?

[Little Fuzzy]

So you don't let your chickens free range at all? you keep them locked up all the time so they only get their commercial balanced feed? Life is short, let your chickens be happy!

 

[Isaac 0]

What?

 

[Teila]

Yep.And its good for them.Nothing bugs me more than store eggs with the label Vegetarian fed.

Tee hee .. I have often wondered if "Vegetarian Fed" meant that they were fed by a Vegetarian or only fed Vegetarians

Sorry, my attempt at humour, I will give myself a

on the way out

[PS. No offensive intended at Vegetarians]

 

[Isaac 0]

,At of all the treats i gave my chickens they always like anything with meat.

 

[mountainbunny]

I just wanted to feed in small portions as a treat... Not as feed.

 

[Teila]

I just wanted to feed in small portions as a treat... Not as feed.

I say go for it!

 

[mountainbunny]

I just don't want to cook them. I'll feed them to the wild dogs if I can't give them to the chickens raw.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

They will eat it and the high protein will be good for them. A friend of mine worked at a farm that also did free range meat birds. On slaughter days the chickens all went to the end of drain pipe from processing area. Every meat, fat, skin piece of scrap washed out they ate. Nothing wrong with it being raw or cooked.

 

[Ridgerunner]

When I butcher chickens I keep two buckets handy. One bucket gets the stuff I bury in the garden to compost in place. The other gets the bits and pieces I feed back to the remaining flock. This includes intestines, fat, internal organs, and any other bits or pieces of tissue I think they will eat. The livers are saved for my dogs. I save the hearts and gizzards for my use in broth.

I cut the intestines, crop, and other larger pieces into sizes they can easily handle, two or three inches long. I only give the chickens enough of this they will clean it up before dark, I don’t want to attract predators. I just empty the bucket on the ground in the run. They go crazy for it.

One time a crow found this stuff. The dominant rooster ran the crow off to save this delicious treat for his ladies.

This stuff is raw, not cooked at all. It’s fresh and full of good nutrition. I don’t know of any treat they like better.

 

[BillyRoper]

Our chickens are cannibals, they eat anything, just like their velociraptor ancestors. They neither know nor care if it was their roost-mate yesterday they're eating today. Just don't feed brains to them, they might get mad chicken disease from the prions. Shudder. JK.