And if the teenagers don't mind their manners they could be on the menu too. My birds aren't picky
We keep a small bucket on the corner of the kitchen counter for scraps. I'm always telling DH to put some leftover in the bucket. He always asks if chickens will eat it. I tell him, chickens will eat anything and "don't fall down in the run". I constantly threaten I'll save funeral expenses by dragging him out to the chickens............
I've seen how my flock will pick every morsel off a ham bone or turkey carcass.........I know there wouldn't be much left if I dropped outside some where..........well, maybe a pile of white hair!
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On the topic of fresh meat ... in a book called something like Mrs. Basley's Poultry Book of Questions and Answers (or something or other) she mentions ... now remember this book is from ... I don't know ... around 1900 or maybe before ... she says that rabbits, squirrels, and groundhogs or some other small type rodentia-style animals are a good source of fresh meat for the chickens.I'm not criticizing anyone who may want to feed their chickens that way; I just find it amusing because it's so far removed from anything I've ever read in contemporary chicken books. Things were so different in the old days. We've got "squirrel crossing, slow down" signs up in a nearby neighborhood. Quite the contrast.
For those reading along, BuckeyeDave gets "sawdust" from his butcher to give to his chickens. I guess it's stuff that is leftover after butchering. It's in the Buckeye breed thread. About a couple of weeks ago.
I'm having trouble keeping up with this thread, too. But it sure helps to have some of the messages coming through into my email.
