instant mash potatoes??

[sunket77]

I just want to make sure, does anyone know if there is any problem with instant mash potatoes? I have some left over and the girls love left over treats! they haven't had any in a while. I have seen a few things on here about feeding them potatoes but I think that is if they are raw.....any clue?? thanks in advance!

 

[fatboys farm]

there is nothing chickens want eat. ihope i dont have a heartattack in the chicken coop. that sounds like a steven king movie.

 

[unionwirewoman]

I've given my girls and boys raw potato's , plants , mashed , instant, etc . Try not to read too much into what some say on here . Been raised country all my life , with 5 generations of info backing me up . Never lost a chicken to predators , and have only lost 3 in 5 yrs to unknown reasons . I do not worm , or vaccinate . Might be the area I'm in , but seems like too many people over indulge their chickens to an extent . I love them, I talk to them all of the time , but there comes a point in life where you have to just let them be chickens . Instant mashed potatos are not going to hurt them . Avacado will. Best of luck !

 

[easttxchick]

Mine love left over mashed potatoes. I also get a kick out of watching my rooster ending up with it all over his face.

 

[quackenboss]

This is an old thread but I feel the need to voice a warning. Don’t let your birds eat a large quantity of dry (unreconstituted) instant mashed potatoes. When they drink water, the potatoes will expand in their crop or stomach and make them very sick or conceivably kill them. Many years ago, I had a boyfriend who did this (go figure) and became very ill.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

This is an old thread but I feel the need to voice a warning. Don’t let your birds eat a large quantity of dry (unreconstituted) instant mashed potatoes. When they drink water, the potatoes will expand in their crop or stomach and make them very sick or conceivably kill them. Many years ago, I had a boyfriend who did this (go figure) and became very ill.

Did Ann Landers tell you that? Abby's twin sister also advised against feeding song birds rice for the same reason. Let the birds be birds, and like one poster here has already said, take everything most people tell you with a grain of salt.

The real truth is that a birds crop or 1st stomach is designed to hydrate or make dry grains swell up in preparation to being ground up in the gizzard.

 

[Mahonri]

I give mine left over mashed potatoes all of the time. THEY LOVE THEM!

 

[Terri]

i don't eat instant mashed potatoes, but if i did, i don't see a problem with feeding them to the chickens.

 

[txredneckmedic]

mine get pretty much whatevers left on the table

 

[sunket77]

Thanks! we don't normally eat instant mash potatoes either. We had two boxes sitting the cabinet forever with one pouch each left. So I said what the heck and fixed both kinds and one came out like soup for some reason and no one wanted to eat them. But the chickens loved them and got it all over their faces! the bearded ones where the funniest!