food's NOT to give

[cluckmecoop7]

Hi all,

Can anybody make a list for me of what chickens can NOT eat? I want to be extra safe when mine grow up...

I thought a few were:

Potato peals
black beans
non cooked rice

Thank you

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Sweet potato peels are fine though. No raw beans.

Alcohol
Amaranth
Avocado Skin, Pit
Butter
Chocolate
Coffee
Dry
Eggplant/pepper/tomato leaves
Fried Food
Maggots
Onions (oniony eggs)
Raw chicken
Raw Eggs
Rhubarb
Stone Fruit pit, apple seeds
Tomato leaves/green fruit
Uncooked Potato
Uncooked rice
Wild mushrooms

Edited: add a list

 

[Melky]

Here is a treat chart. Treats should not be more than 10% of daily diet.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...—the-best-treats-for-backyard-chickens.47738/

 

[Kessel23]

Sweet potato peels are fine though. No raw beans.

Alcohol
Amaranth
Avocado Skin, Pit
Butter
Chocolate
Coffee
Dry
Eggplant/pepper/tomato leaves
Fried Food
Maggots
Onions (oniony eggs)
Raw chicken
Raw Eggs
Rhubarb
Stone Fruit pit, apple seeds
Tomato leaves/green fruit
Uncooked Potato
Uncooked rice
Wild mushrooms

Edited: add a list

Kinda wondering what happens if you feed them these things because I have given my birds some of the things on your list, have never noticed anything going wrong afterwords. My turkeys and meat birds ate so many green apples. I had the meat birds in chicken tractors and withheld food on the day of butchering, gizzards were packed full of apple seeds. I see my turkeys peck at apples then swallow the whole core, they swallow crab apples whole. There is an orchard right by my coop so there is a TON of apple eating in the summer, I free range my birds so can't really stop them from eating the apples. I have seen them eat broken eggs before, and I gave them a lot of frozen eggs with this weather recently, oops

 

[Melky]

Kinda wondering what happens if you feed them these things because I have given my birds some of the things on your list, have never noticed anything going wrong afterwords. My turkeys and meat birds ate so many green apples. I had the meat birds in chicken tractors and withheld food on the day of butchering, gizzards were packed full of apple seeds. I see my turkeys peck at apples then swallow the whole core, they swallow crab apples whole. There is an orchard right by my coop so there is a TON of apple eating in the summer, I free range my birds so can't really stop them from eating the apples. I have seen them eat broken eggs before, and I gave them a lot of frozen eggs with this weather recently, oops

Apple seeds have cianide in them when metabolized so not good to give. Frozen eggs as long as not cracked can just wash and refrigerate and will thaw and be fine. If feed chickens cracked eggs would first cook as in scramble then feed them for the protein and will kill any bacteria.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Sweet potato peels are fine as long as they aren’t green.

Kinda wondering what happens if you feed them these things because I have given my birds some of the things on your list, have never noticed anything going wrong afterwords. My turkeys and meat birds ate so many green apples. I had the meat birds in chicken tractors and withheld food on the day of butchering, gizzards were packed full of apple seeds. I see my turkeys peck at apples then swallow the whole core, they swallow crab apples whole. There is an orchard right by my coop so there is a TON of apple eating in the summer, I free range my birds so can't really stop them from eating the apples. I have seen them eat broken eggs before, and I gave them a lot of frozen eggs with this weather recently, oops

It’s a general guide. Apple seeds are dangerous in large quantities and the green fruit meant green tomatoes I believe

 

[Kessel23]

It’s a general guide. Apple seeds are dangerous in large quantities and the green fruit meant green tomatoes I believe

Ok, thanks.

 

[Kessel23]

Apple seeds have cianide in them so not good to give. Frozen eggs as long as not cracked can just wash and refrigerate and will thaw and be fine. If feed chickens cracked eggs would first cook as in scramble then feed them for the protein and will kill any bacteria.

They were very cracked. How do you scramble the frozen eggs though?

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Thank you everyone!

 

[Melky]

They were very cracked. How do you scramble the frozen eggs though?

I only do if mine are cracked. I only had one like that so far. I just wash outside of egg and crack in skillet. Just turn in nonstick pan with spatula. Don’t add anything not even oil. Voila scrambled eggs! I place in disposable cup to take out to feeder and dump in. Chickens loved the warm treat and they do not egg peck as result. Frozen egg before scrambling. It thaws in pan. Looks like normal fluffy scrambled eggs when done.

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