Is this Ok to do? Or will it harm the chickens

[valmom]

I wonder if adding cayenne to their food would deter the squirrels from eating (and trashing) their food dish. Chickens maybe can't taste it, but I'll bet squirrels can!

 

[asher]

Cayenne pepper also helps with inner buggies and such.


I have not found it to work for laying eggs as well as the OP said it works, but that may just be me.

 

[Crazy4GameCocks]

it works trust me i did it and the chickens are fine and laying great and no tast in the egg

 

[freshegg]

I just tryed this yesterday with the hard corn water and hot pepper hope it works. I cant wait till tommorow or so to see. I,ll let you know. I gave them 6 RIR a whole 4 gallon bucket theres some left but they ate alot.

 

[cajunlizz]

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OK as a NEW DUMMY , ya'll are taking about Cayenne pepper , you mean , LIQUID , WHOLE PEPPERS CHOPPED , or bottled powered cayenne ? AS you all know from South Louisiana , WE HAVE PEPPERS . Just dont want to harm my chickens are start them on FIRE , IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN . LOL

 

[cjeanean]

when did you guys try this??? How old were the chickens??? Also, how much do you mean by a 'can'??? One of those plastic containers from wal mart of red pepper????

 

[dacjohns]

Wow, such conflicting information you can get. I'm not saying what's right or wrong. I'm not saying the old ways aren't good. Just observing.

Other threads say don't give the birds scratch when it's hot because when the corn is digested it heats up the birds internally. Now we're saying give them corn and pepper so we can heat them up so they lay better.

It's fun reading. I was thinking of starting a thread for old time ways of raising chickens.

 

[freshegg]

my hens are a year old and yes I used crushed red pepper you find with the spices. that was yesterday still only got 3 eggs today

. lets see what tommorow brings. I read alot of people say they use cayene pepper on rice. wont harm them from whaqt I read.

 

[Rafter 7 Paint Horses]

Well, I tried the Cayenne pepper when my hens slowed down in egg production.

They went from about 3 dz. eggs a day to 0! And I got 0 eggs for at least 2 weeks, and then they slowly went back to the 3 dz. a day that I got before. It took another 3 weeks for them to get back to laying regularly.

So, as for my experience, I will not use the pepper again.

Jean

 

[freshegg]

oh boy now Im worried hope they dont quit.