Help! My wife is mad at me for feeding the chickens pizza!

[exactlyzac]

Can someone please help me convince her that it's okay for the girls to have fun table scraps?

Everything in moderation right?!

EDIT: Our girls usually get much smaller quantities of veggie scraps, but this was a couple of weeks ago on New Years Day and all the girls were fine

 

[Bird_Lover_17]

Yeah, so chickens should really not be eating pizza. It's not nutritious. Normally the "table scraps" you are supposed to feed chickens is like lettuce and bananas.

 

[CIuck]

Can someone please help me convince her that it's okay for the girls to have fun table scraps?

Everything in moderation right?!View attachment 2498991

Um so...I hope your chickens are ok tomorrow, pizza is a big no no. Did it have salt lol?

 

[PolishAllTheWay]

Dude, why would you feed your poor chickens pizza, I mean yah they probably loved the way it tastes but what about how they felt? I agree with your wife

 

[LaFleche]

Everything in moderation right?!

No moderation to be seen where your photo is concerned. You dished up as if you were "treating" at least 60 hens.

They will get a nasty diarrhea to say the least.

 

[alwaystj9]

My chickens rarely get leftover pizza because there's rarely leftover pizza....
But they did Subway on Tuesday...

(My chickens eat and enjoy all leftovers all the time, I just have to remove the leftover from any styrofoam containers because they eat that, too. Every Sunday night the 2 refrigerators in the control room at work get emptied out and goes in a bucket for my chickens. The only things they don't eat are iceberg lettuce, raw onions, lemons & limes and some pickles.)(I am not saying it's healthy but I've never seen one with issues from it.)

 

[Amurr]

Their health and productivity depend on their overall diet. A layer feed is a complete diet for them, and when you feed them extra junk food they eat less of their balanced food obviously.
Acceptable table scraps are the veggie scraps, lettuce, beet greens, peas, squash (my girls are crazy for spaghetti squash) you get the idea.

That said, a few pieces of pizza won’t kill anybody. They may get diarrhea. I have a pet rooster that is somewhere between 50-70% blind and he struggles to eat actual chicken food because it’s hard to see and his aim is shit. So I feed him no-no foods often like bread and cereal because it’s easy for me to hand feed to him quickly and his aim doesn’t have to be perfect to get ahold of it. But I realize that his life may be significantly shorter because of his diet.
I do not feed my hens the way I feed my Kyle.

 

[Mmanist]

My chickens pick over anything that makes it to the compost pile. Dogs get first dibs, then chickens, then it ends composted. Mine haven't died from eating pizza. They don't get stuff like that often though.

 

[LaFleche]

they did Subway on Tuesday

This put a picture in my head of chickens riding the subway clinging on to the handles...

 

[alwaystj9]

We are reducing food waste one chicken-belly-full at a time...