Mushrooms?

[miss heny]

my dad wants to know if chickens can have store bought mushrooms, i say no, and one else disagree with me?

 

[Little One]

I've never read anything that says they can't. As long as they're store bought and not randomly picked (poisonous) wild ones, it shouldn't hurt them.

 

[Imp]

I've given mine shrooms. I'm sure they've eaten a few random yard shrooms too. I wouldn't deliberately give them wild shrooms unless I knew what they are.

Imp

 

[silky_3699]

sounds fine to me. now and again we give them some that have been mixed with the rest of the scraps. but they are all cooked...

 

[rufus]

Years ago, I ordered mushroom spore from a seed house. I raised them in a mulch of pecan leaves and pine needles. They produced tons of beautiful mushrooms, but no one would eat them. No body wanted to be the first to die.

We fed them to the chickens.

Chickens eat a lot of things, but I have never seen them eat anything poisonous.

Rufus

 

[kcwazzu]

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Kinda makes you wonder who, way back when tried eating them in the first place

 

[rufus]

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Kinda makes you wonder who, way back when tried eating them in the first place

A very hungry person.

 

[miss heny]

okay thanks!

 

[Triplehorn]

Here is a scientific study with controls that suggests that at least some kinds of mushrooms improve the health and performance of chickens. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20075283/

 

[rgunn1]

Years ago, I ordered mushroom spore from a seed house. I raised them in a mulch of pecan leaves and pine needles. They produced tons of beautiful mushrooms, but no one would eat them. No body wanted to be the first to die.

We fed them to the chickens.

Chickens eat a lot of things, but I have never seen them eat anything poisonous.

Rufus

Thanks! It's kind of funny... the vast majority of commercial produce is so inferior to home-grown, but when it comes to mushrooms I think I might be in that same crowd... I'll stick with the tried and true, unless you want to try it first!