Quote: You're welcome and I hope you have a great experience with your poultry. They can be such interesting and friendly livestock. Not to mention they can make a huge difference in your own health.
I would be careful with feeding them things from the fridge unless you run a fairly clean operation concerning disinfecting. Some minor bugs that don't really bother us and are present in some of our foods are dangerous to chickens and fridges can be dangerous hotbeds of bacteria too, but it's probably like anything else, just a matter of commonsense. I feed my chooks anything from the fridge that doesn't make me suspicious of its ratio of good to bad bacteria; there are good kinds of rot and decay and fermentation and molds and bacteria involved in the breakdown of matter, as well as bad ones. With a big family it's a lot of work to stay on top of all the mystery items that appear in the fridge, so many leftovers... The kids are getting more responsible as they get older so that's getting easier. Thankfully!
Some chooks certainly will eat all manner of stuff! Garlic, if given raw and crushed or minced, supplies powerful natural antibiotics that kill food poisoning bacteria that kill chooks and humans. Raw garlic contains sulfur and Allicin and other compounds which will protect your birds from a lot of things as they learn what's good for them. If the chooks have been on raw garlic as a staple for a good few weeks/months their flesh and blood is harmful to internal and external parasites, bad bacteria and viruses because they cannot tolerate that amount of sulfur as well as the other active properties in garlic.
I would be careful with feeding them things from the fridge unless you run a fairly clean operation concerning disinfecting. Some minor bugs that don't really bother us and are present in some of our foods are dangerous to chickens and fridges can be dangerous hotbeds of bacteria too, but it's probably like anything else, just a matter of commonsense. I feed my chooks anything from the fridge that doesn't make me suspicious of its ratio of good to bad bacteria; there are good kinds of rot and decay and fermentation and molds and bacteria involved in the breakdown of matter, as well as bad ones. With a big family it's a lot of work to stay on top of all the mystery items that appear in the fridge, so many leftovers... The kids are getting more responsible as they get older so that's getting easier. Thankfully!
Some chooks certainly will eat all manner of stuff! Garlic, if given raw and crushed or minced, supplies powerful natural antibiotics that kill food poisoning bacteria that kill chooks and humans. Raw garlic contains sulfur and Allicin and other compounds which will protect your birds from a lot of things as they learn what's good for them. If the chooks have been on raw garlic as a staple for a good few weeks/months their flesh and blood is harmful to internal and external parasites, bad bacteria and viruses because they cannot tolerate that amount of sulfur as well as the other active properties in garlic.
