Fish gut

[cookiesdaddy]

I was cleaning some rock fish (fresh caught). The girls gathered waiting for some goodies. Threw them a small piece of gut part, and next thing I knew, they were attacking me and pecking wildly at the fish tummies

Didn't have much left for the compost pile!

Anybody feed fish gut to chickens? I don't go fishing everyday, so I guess occasional feeding of fish gut is OK. NO?

 

[tvtaber]

I would sure feed them to the chicks if they like them! I think that would be a very healthy addition to their diet.

Vicki

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

We feed shrimp heads and shells along with fish heads and even some bones they gobble them up.

 

[NS2A]

Yup, give them the guts! Great stuff for them.

 

[picklespickles]

i fed mine shrimp tails the other day. so, this is gross, but can you feed them the entrails you do't want after you slaughter another chicken or is that dangerous?

 

[3peeps]

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Umm...something seems not so great about that. Can't say why, but my brain is sending vague no-no messages.

 

[silkiechicken]

I would avoid givng back entrails to the same species since if you have really bad luck, something bad can happen like prion explosions. Unlikley though but a faint risk. Like eating raw eggs, chances you are you wil be fine, but that one time you aren't in a million, you'll have a terrible night and day or two. They won't hesitate to eat their kind though...

 

[3peeps]

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Yes...thank you for clarifying. It's another thing to feed them back cooked chicken, but nobody I care to know is going to boil up entrails. I would think the possibility of eating "in progress feces" would be bad.

 

[picklespickles]

i wasn't thinking of cooking them, just letting them pick over the icky parts. but without the feathers, so hopefully they wouldn't get bad habits from it. i was thinking, well, since they dooooo eat each other (not here, luckily, so far.) it seemed icky and i'm not sure if i could really do it, but i was wondering. when i've fed the extras to the cat and dog, i always made sure there was no feather left so they wouldn't get any ideas.

 

[silkiechicken]

Becides the gut, what's left after a butucher? I eat the livers, hearts, feet, and gizzard. All I can think of left is literaly intestine, kidneys, bile, lungs and other non paletable things.