Laying chickens eating dog food

[4 luv of eggs]

Quote:
I hope you don't literally mean your neighbors....

 

[Cynthia12]

oops....

 

[Cynthia12]

Quote:
Personally, I do not eat dog food. Do your neighbors prefer the dry kind?

I forgot the apostrophe! and/or the chicken's.. So my daughter isn't the only one that takes things said or written...literally.
I've had kids eat dog food in the past...but they grew out of it.

 

[4 luv of eggs]

My husband has always tasted the dog's food (dry). BTW Chef Michael's is pretty good, or so he says.

 

[dude+chick]

There is a web site somewhere on the forum which list what is ok for chickens to eat. I believe I read that cat food has something in it that causes renal failure in chickens. Perhaps someone has a link to that site. Good Luck.

 

[Owner of Elvis]

I'm not finding that link...anyone know where it is?

After I posted the question about my chickens eating cat/dog food I had a person interested in buying some of my eggs until ...she found out what my chickens were eating. If EVERYTHING they were eating was organic and IF I didn't live near any crops which potentially were being sprayed...then she would want my eggs. So I did some looking up yesterday and found NO nutrition content on the feed I purchase other than percentage of protein. It is Country Lane....from Orschelns....then I found a 100%ORGANIC brand feed which listed all the Inorganic ingredients. (found that a bit humorous)

It seems I read once upon a time where unlike cows, pigs and goats eating organic vs inorganic feed, that what a chicken eats doesn't have an effect on their eggs or meat or at least as much of an effect. I was interested in any information you may have on that also.

 

[Tala]

dude+chick :

There is a web site somewhere on the forum which list what is ok for chickens to eat. I believe I read that cat food has something in it that causes renal failure in chickens. Perhaps someone has a link to that site. Good Luck.

I thought it was the other way around. People feed their chickens cat food to boost protein during a molt, but dog food has too much salt for routine feeding.
I doubt stealing leftovers will hurt though.​

 

[tina love]

I messed up and got my dogs a cheap bag . They will NOT eat it. ..so we are certain it won't hurt the hens? I hate to waste it but if the chickens can have it as a snack it will be awesome!

 

[donrae]

My family's birds have eaten a lot of cheap dog food over the years. We never seemed to notice any problems from it. I'd just dole it out a little at a time. Or donate it to a shelter.