Feeding chicken to chickens....

[Lunachick]

It's good protein right? I cooked a macaroni meal that had chopped chicken in it. I wasn't going to pick out the chicken meat to give the birds just the roni's. Last year I would have picked out the meat, this year....NO. They are getting it for their breakfast treat. I never thought I'd see the day!

Those dern chickens will eat anything!

 

[FortWorthChicks]

Honestly... why not? They would eat eachother alive if one was bleeding so I say sure.

My daughter (18 months) stepped outside with a chicken tender and got mobbed by the hens! They all jumped up and stole her chicken!! lol

 

[silkiechicken]

My chickens would eat me if they had the chance. I let them pick though left overs from soup making and if the feral cats are lucky, they will be able to steal a few bits here and there.

 

[AmyBella]

Yup. I felt a little weird doing that too at first, but they are little cannibals, right?

One of my friends has a brutal childhood story about finding her favorite hen in the coop and all that was left of her was a bloody puddle with a skeleton and some feathers. They had picked her clean!

Chickens love chicken... after all tastes like chicken!

 

[biddyboo]

Favorite treat of my flock of hens is the chicken carcass left when I buy one of those roasted hens at the grocery. I have to hunt to find the few leftover chicken bones after a couple hours. They are real scavengers. They have no problem with eating chicken, and I no longer have any icks about serving it up to them. ~G

 

[HEChicken]

Yep. Both times I've processed roos, the hens hung around hoping for a treat. And, after removing the pieces we weren't planning to eat (brain, lungs, etc), I cooked those up and fed them right back to the hens. There was a feeding frenzy. I figure its protein and if they don't mind eating it, why should I mind feeding it?

 

[Lunachick]

Well, you guys were right! They gobbled the cooked chicken up and pulled pieces from each other's beaks.

I'll try a carcass on their next adventure.

 

[FortWorthChicks]

I can just imagine the chicken mob. lol

 

[chickenlady08]

I haven't given them chicken per say. But i have given them their own eggs. I cook them every weekend so they are eating chicken I suppose. I haven't tried any meat leftovers, but they love crickets and worms and any other little bug, so it is all protein, I don't think they care what it is and it isn't like it is unhealthy for them, RIGHT!

 

[Rin]

Thanks for this topic!

We don't have garbage pickup out here and food leftovers that fill 1/4th a bag is a silly and wasteful trip to the garbage dump but if I leave it in the house we get flies - tons of um. It's also difficult to put them directly into the compost when it could attract bears, coons, or neighbor dogs(and has in the past done so. I just find my compost scattered because something came along and dug through it for food scraps).

The food scrap issue is what finally made me cave to get chickens. BUT, I love to eat chicken myself - a lot of it. Roast, fried, barbecued - It doesn't matter. BUT I'm rather picky, don't like the skin or most of the fat so I have a /lot/ leftover with chicken meat - even with eggs because I hate the crispy edges of my sunny side ups. I was initially planning to feed these scraps and such to my birds - knowing full well chickens are cannibalistic and opportunistic feeders - but anytime I saw it mentioned here (chicken cannibalism) people were saying they don't and never would feed their chickens chicken scraps. I was starting to self-doubt on the subject. Now I feel tons better, thank you.

They'll be getting lots of delicious nommies whenever they get here and grow big enough XD