How 'bout apple peels??

[peggyb43]

I just peeled some apples to make fried apples and wondered if the chickens can eat the peels. It seems a shame to waste them.

 

[Sparks]

Yes they can..Also the seeds and other bits you do not use.

 

[digitS']

You may not want to feed too many apple seeds to anything. They contain cyanogenic glycosides - releasing cyanide during digestion. I don't suppose they would normally be eaten in lethal amounts but who knows how many a bored chicken would eat if a lot of seeds were around in the pen.
I've always felt pretty good about throwing away peelings from fruit that I was pretty sure had been sprayed with pesticides

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Steve

 

[wohneli]

I think it takes a bunch of apple seeds to be harmful!

 

[digitS']

I've read that a cup of seeds was reported to have killed some idiot . . .

I give my hens apple cores.

Steve

 

[noriko]

My chicken love the apples too. But you might have to be careful with the apple skin. People use a lot of chemical for the apples to keep the bugs away from them.

Noriko.

 

[al6517]

I am sure if the skin is washed and you don't feed a ton of the seeds you should be fine, when mine swarm to apples each bird only get's a taste.

AL