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

[Deezer]

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

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Are you pairing it with the proper wine?

 

[Hayden Goseek]

I was working at a hospital who provided food to the OR crew. When they had leftovers they sent them to us. Anything left over from that, I bagged and fed to our yardbirds the next morning.
One day when I was extolling the virtues of eating free-range, organic eggs, a young nurse said " Organic! You feed them PIZZA !!!"

 

[Cluckingham Palace Ranch]

I'm more curious about your rug. How do you keep them from chewing up the rug and swallowing the threads? I had curtains in my coop and a tablecloth on an outside table....then one of my roosters wasn't acting right, took him to the vet and he had somehow gotten the threads from the tablecloth wrapped so tight around his tongue, that it was literally slicing thru his tongue from each side! The vet asked where he would have gotten it and after I told him what fabrics I had out there, he said, "get rid of all of it! Don't have anything out there that they can peck at and swallow, or that can get bound up in their crops". So I came home and removed everything that was fabric. Spent $200 at the vet that day, had my rooster in a separate hospital cage for 12 days following his ordeal, to allow him to heal, and then ended up having to rehome him because my other rooster wouldn't accept him back into the flock. I love the rug idea, as my run is nothing but mud right now from the snow melting...but I'm scared to death that it could harm them. So am very curious on how long you've had it and are they trying to eat it at all. Please and thank you.

 

[heatherdevito1]

Waste not want not, right?

... but why not iceberg lettuce? Is that bad for them??

I've read the green tomatoes are toxic but red are ok, and avocado in ANY form will surely kill them, along with lemon and lime, and potatoes should have any green spots trimmed off, but I've never heard of iceberg being a problem.

 

[JoJoMc]

Absolutely!
I have been raising and selling chickens for 20 years. I own and operate a soup kitchen. The chickens get all scraps.
my grandma used to say that there were only 2 things a hog and a chicken would not eat was a lemon or lime.
When everyone else’s chickens quit laying in the winter, mine only slow down a bit.
My chickens are all healthy and at the moment I have about 200 of them with 25-30 that well over 3-4 years old.
funny thing is.....mt chickens turn their beaks up at Little Caesar’s pizza but love home made and Puzza Hut pizza

 

[lifein1840]

Um so...I hope your chickens are ok tomorrow, pizza is a big no no. Did it have salt lol?
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My chickens have had lots of leftovers with no bad effects. And as far as dairy, my hens used to beat up my barn cat for the goat milk...poor cat would sit off to the side and wait until she was allowed to get some milk....and those hens were very healthy - and somewhat mean, at least to the cat!!

 

[Padfoot22]

I’m confused by everyone saying that dairy, cheese, yogurt etc causes chickens to get diarrhea and they shouldn’t eat it. I just read on a list Backyard chickens acceptable food list that yogurt, cheese and milk were good for them. I’ve even read about yogurt being good for a healthy crop and digestive health overall in a chicken. Everything in moderation of course so I only give my hens one dairy product every 5 or so days (maybe more sometimes) and not much at once. They adore cheeses so I especially have to be careful with it or they will fight over it.

 

[swimmy44]

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

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Haha we rarely have pizza leftover!! Certainly not a lot of it!

 

[Tonyroo]

Are you trying to develop pizza flavored chickens and eggs? lol just kidding.

 

[ChickyBacBac]

Funniest pic ever! I have given them crust off my pizza, bc they say not to give them dairy. But if they are ok, well clearly it was fine. After all- what a new year it has been for everyone!!! But I MIGHT keep it to only the new year's day celebration