fish for protine?

[bryan8]

So if i feed them bacon than i will get bacon flavored eggs??????????

I think im on to something haha

No need to make eggs and
bacon, just a bacon egg!




woot

~Bryan

haha

 

[nwgirl]

Had dinner on the back deck the other night - grilled salmon, and I ended up sharing it with the dog and the chickens. The chickens went mad for it, so they got seconds

 

[Akane]

No. It's not the fish that makes them fishy flavored it's the vitamins in the fish. Like I said other things can cause fishy flavor too. Too much flaxseed or nuts could do it. What they eat does not directly go into the eggs. The vitamins and minerals they eat go into the eggs. So the flavor only changes if they eat a lot of a certain nutrient that has a strong flavor.

 

[monicaei1]

Mine went NUTS for the leftover parts froma recent red snapper turned fillets. Skin, scales, leftover random fishy parts. Seriously, they went NUTS. Its was hilarious. I have also heard from other chicken friends that crawfish and crab shells are a favortie treat for their birds.

note: I cant believed i just typed "chicken friends".

 

[FarmerDenise]

bryan8 wrote

So if i feed them bacon than i will get bacon flavored eggs??????????

I think im on to something haha No need to make eggs and
bacon, just a bacon egg!

I was wondering also if the scraps or rather remains of the crawdad dinner from the other night would have been ok to feed to the chickens. My sensibilities tell me yes. SO wouldn't let me, he thinks everything is bad for them though. He won't let me feed the chickens anything fishy (pun intended), but I do anyway, when he is not looking. But he tends to throw it out before I get the chance to feed it to them, or I don't feel like having an argument over it. But I think it is a waste to toss any fish remains out in the trash.
Before I moved in with him, I used to give my chickens the shells of shrimp and stuff like that. So I think it is ok, if not good for them. I did keep an eye on things though, because I did not want my chickies to eat anything that was spoiled. But the summer heat, usually baked things out pretty quick and then the ants would get to it also.​

 

[deanna&rich]

Ours go crazy over salmon skeletons, and we're getting a freezer-load of salmon heads this fall after folks go fishing.

Do you all think that it will attract predators, though? It's our first set of pullets, and we're not sure if we should be concerned about fishy small on the ground in the run. On the plus side, it should attract yummy bugs!!

Thanks...

 

[texas_is_home]

Quote:
I've hunted duck out of blinds over the bay and the meat tastes like mullet! If you're gonna eat the eggs or the birds don't feed em too much fish. It also gives their dropping a pretty rank smell.