Leftover Baking Treat???

[Red Glory]

Hi I've just joined the group. We've been keeping Chicken's for about 10 years now. I'm a keen baker and I have some leftover Honey cake made using my friend's local organic honey. I'm wondering if I can give some to the brood. Thanks guys in advance for your advice.
Red Glory
England .

 

[wyoDreamer]

This is pretty basic but I think it gets the point across about feeding treats:
http://articles.extension.org/pages/69065/feeding-chickens-for-egg-production

I get the point of the article and I am not going to disagree with what is being said, but the reason I raise chickens is to give them a better life than "Production" chickens get. My life got pretty hectic and I was working a lot of overtime for a while and my chickens basically only got commercial feed to eat. It was a toss a bucket of feed into the feeder, gather eggs before supper and that's it kinda life for about 3 weeks. After that time, the eggs were very similar to store bought eggs - bland, pale, not at all like what we had been getting.
I like the eggs that my chickens lay when they get to free-range and they get treats. The taste, color of the yolk, and the texture are all so much superior to store eggs. Although I have to second the "don't feed strong tasting foods to your chickens" bit. I read that fish was a good supplement for protein, so i threw some extra fish to my chickens one summer. We had a slightly fishy tasting eggs - still better than store bought, though.

 

[Joeschooks]

Hello and welcome to BYC! I don’t know what’s in the cake although honey shouldn’t do them any harm BUT they’re not going to get much nutrition from it.

 

[Kiki]

I think some people don't quite under stand that a complete feed has everything they need...treats of any kind should always be treated as treats...not the majority of their diet.
When people feed too many treats this happens:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sudden-death-diagnosed.1184523/#post-18692731

 

[Red Glory]

Hello and welcome to BYC! I don’t know what’s in the cake although honey shouldn’t do them any harm BUT they’re not going to get much nutrition from it.

Thank you. It had flour,eggs and honey and thanks for the welcome x

 

[RUNuts]

Shouldn't be an issue. We had leftover doughnuts and kolaches at work yesterday. I put them in the run and they magically disappeared. This does not happen often. The dogs were upset they didn't get all of them.

 

[Kiki]

Fwiw...I feed treats too

Shouldn't be an issue. We had leftover doughnuts and kolaches at work yesterday. I put them in the run and they magically disappeared. This does not happen often. The dogs were upset they didn't get all of them.

 

[RUNuts]

Over the holidays we had some cakes and pies arrive that were left over from a few different celebrations. More than I wanted to or could eat.

Put the whole thing out there and went to work. Nothing but a cleaned piece of cardboard when I got home. How does a chicken lick a plate clean? No, the dogs don't have access. I told them like I tell the kids, eat your supper before you get dessert.

 

[Kiki]

Over the holidays we had some cakes and pies arrive that were left over from a few different celebrations. More than I wanted to or could eat.

Put the whole thing out there and went to work. Nothing but a cleaned piece of cardboard when I got home. How does a chicken lick a plate clean? No, the dogs don't have access. I told them like I tell the kids, eat your supper before you get dessert.

Stop...you are killing me!

 

[Didi84]

I give my chickens cake and it never hurt them they love it