Food Scraps?

[FredsDadTiny]

Well your chickens will enjoy them, yellow yolks and all!

I've been told not to give eggs or shells to my girls because if they get a taste for it they will start eating their own eggs as soon as they are laid.

I'm currently crushing shells and putting that out for them

 

[Sonya9]

I've been told not to give eggs or shells to my girls because if they get a taste for it they will start eating their own eggs as soon as they are laid.

I'm currently crushing shells and putting that out for them

If you served the egg raw in the original shell they MIGHT get ideas about eating the eggs they laid.

Hard boiled eggs chopped up (or scrambled) does not make them raw egg eaters, most folks here often feed cooked egg to chicks and adults especially if they aren't feeling well and need a boost.

 

[DuckRaiser]

I've been told not to give eggs or shells to my girls because if they get a taste for it they will start eating their own eggs as soon as they are laid.

I'm currently crushing shells and putting that out for them

Yeah, I crush shells and feed it to them too

 

[chad-o]

Chickens don't eat eggs as long as they don't associate the shape of the egg with food!
As long as it doesn't look like an egg there should be no problem!

 

[FredsDadTiny]

Thanks will continue to crush the eggs and give them back with their feed.


Every little helps eh

 

[Bert2368]

I keep all the trimmings from roasts or other meats, cooked or uncooked, I freeze them as they accumulate. All the shells from shrimp or other seafoods. And anything else, such as the tough stem parts of cauliflower, broccoli, or asparagus, extra or gone moldy squash, pumpkins, beets, cooked beans, peas- ANYTHING that came from food good enough for us to eat.

When I'm away from the coop for more than a day or so, any eggs found on return go into the "recycle" bin too.

When I've got enough of such scraps saved up, it's chicken feeding time! The meat scraps all come out of the freezer, get cooked long enough to sterilize/soften and the whole batch gets put into the blender, eggs with shells and all. Whipped and chopped in the blender, pour it into a ceramic "meat loaf" type pan, microwave it into a big, oddly colored soufflé!

THE CHICKENS GO NUTS FOR THIS! And boy, do the eggs have nice dark yolks afterwards. Only drawback, the chickens who've eaten such a high protein supplement do have rather manky poo for a day or two after-

PS- Went to an outdoor wedding on a farm Saturday, look who they had for ushers!

 

[chiklee]

Food scraps I boil all meat parts in lots of water add expired canned foods and left overs cook it slowly for a few hours till the meat is off the bones then I add rice, macaroni's ,hard bread ,noodles any thing to make it kinda thick the chickens goes nuts one large pot gives me 8 coffee plastic containers so it last me about 2 weeks they love their food scraps better than their feed . I have a freezer full of venison and rabbit parts that I cant eat pull it out cook it their happy and you cant beat the cost either for their protein either I go to the scratch and dent stores for their canned goods . Or I go to the food banks for their stale and out dated cans they have to throw away. They save it for me. I give them a donation and we are all happy.

Chicken surprise.

 

[K9Dave]

I feed my dogs raw meats for their diet. Mostly Chicken legs with most of the meat removed and some have the skin left on it. I have 2 dogs and feed them in 2 different de toons of the yard. Every morning when I open the run door, the Pullets bolt to find both dog dishes to look for leftovers. If I feed the dogs and they're out, they swarm the bowl while the dogs eating and sometimes steal a piece. Stealing from the dog that killed their siblings earlier in life, they're def not that smart. Lol. I didn't know that potatoe peels shouldn't be fed to them and have done it but they never ate it anyways so now I know.

 

[chiklee]

Food scraps I boil all meat parts in lots of water add expired canned foods and left overs cook it slowly for a few hours till the meat is off the bones then I add rice, macaroni's ,hard bread ,noodles any thing to make it kinda thick the chickens goes nuts one large pot gives me 8 coffee plastic containers so it last me about 2 weeks they love their food scraps better than their feed . I have a freezer full of venison and rabbit parts that I cant eat pull it out cook it their happy and you cant beat the cost either for their protein either I go to the scratch and dent stores for their canned goods . Or I go to the food banks for their stale and out dated cans they have to throw away. They save it for me. I give them a donation and we are all happy.

Chicken surprise.

Here they are eating their Favorite chicken surprise they gobble it down real fast. This is my brown leghorns They are growing fast. 2 months old

 

[K9Dave]

I don't give chicken bones to the dog because they stick in her throat and she hacks for 3 days, if I give them to the cats they scatter them all over by the door where we walk, so naturally they go in the chicken pens. They won't eat okra unless it's boiled, nor jalepeno peppers or satsuma peels, never noticed if they eat onions or not, they do eat black bananas and they ate a chocolate cake once. "They say" they're not sposed to eat tomato plants but mine will strip a tomato plant leafless within 2 ft of the ground; my hens even bite of small pieces and feed them to their bittys.

Are you cooking the bones for the dog?