Is it okay to feed chickens Honey or (cooked) eggs?

[dave3877]

i hard boil infertile eggs. they seem to love it. i feed mine table scraps and most anything else. ill never forget after hurricane ike i lost a lot of food and my birds ate so much they couyldnt move for a day or 2. they got everything from a leftover ham to some frozen peas. they ate the ham down to the bone. i doubt honey would hurt them. i figure honeys antibacterial properties might help them. couldnt hurt to try mixing it in with layer mash.

 

[dave3877]

just remember that when you feed them anything salty have plenty of water around

 

[ChOOkens]

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Haha, Yes. I know whenever I eat anything salty I always have a full glass of water right near me!

Thanks for the advice!

 

[Makaaka]

When I have a complication with incubating eggs or if there is a weakness in the chick due to inbreeding for showebirds etc, I have used Honey without problem for chickens. I'd mix specialK or Nutrigrain (high protein) with warm water, honey and yoghurt for the acidophilus. (pretty much similar to a breakfast drink but without the milk)

The honey has a neutral pH Hydrogen Peroxide which kills bacteria. Not sure if it kills good bacteria. Most bad bacteria cannot stand high levels of oxygen in the blood and so adding pH neutral Hydrogen Peroxide can raise oxygen levels. It also aids with preventing dehydration as honey creates a flexible membrane in the mouth/throat. The Achidophilus I add in because I read that chickens are born with no beneficial bacteria in their stomach which can make them susceptible to some avian illnesses (which I'd think the hydrogen peroxide would kill but better to have some good bacteria there).

Just remember that the pH of honey is neutral despite it containing hydrogen peroxide. I know in humans it can sometimes on rare occasion cause botulism but all my birds have grown up fine and infact the one bird I didn't give any mix to died I think it was born too big (possibly due to inbreeding from showbirds - my friend breeds Malay chickens and won some shows), it was a Malay chick that was about 30% bigger than the other chicks that hatched and had toes as thick as the other malay chick's legs. I had another chick born exceptionally large like that and I gave it this mix with honey, determined that I would not lose another chick like that and it worked.

Normal sugar does not contain hydrogen peroxide and makes the blood acidic while being good food for bad bacteria as they love energy, they love the fact there is no oxygen to kill them and they love acidity caused by normal sugar. Honey has 50% the energy value of the same amount of sugar. Fructose is 25% the energy of normal sugar.

As for cooked eggs, it's actually a great food for any animal. Eggs contain all the nutrients required for a human in the yolk alone so you can pretty much replace a multivitamin with an egg yolk. Just make sure it doesn't resemble an egg in shape and they won't learn any bad habits. I'm not up for it but there are humans that eat human placenta and more people that eat human reproductive cells so a chicken eating a cooked egg is no different.