need to sort the scraps?

[yyz0yyz0]

A couple weeks ago I started to get 10-15lbs of prep cook scraps from my work Cafeteria 3 times a week which I throw into the compost corner in my chicken run. It's a mixed batch of veg and fruit peelings, seed cores, older soft fruits, etc etc.

Do I need to worry that I might be throwing something in there that they should not eat (such as avacodo) or is it not a problem as they won't eat what they shouldn't eat? So far I haven't noticed anything unhealthy for them but I'm not picking through the scraps before dumping them in the corner. they already recognize when I'm bringing them a load of goodies and they swarm me as I dump it in.

I'd rather not have to pick through the pile of scraps if I dont' have to. I remove whatever they did not process after a week or so and throw it in my real compost bin.

So will they avoid the occasional "bad things" or do I need to be in the lookout for it and remove is before they get it?

 

[Kelsie2290]

OK, I'm lazy, but honestly I wouldn't bother really sorting through the stuff. I mean if there were a ton of avocado or green potato peelings in there I wouldn't feed it, but if I didn't really see anything bad with a general look, I'd figure that any problem stuff would be so diluted it shouldn't make any difference.

 

[donrae]

I wouldn't sort through it. In my experience birds won't eat stuff that will harm them. I've put potato peels, onion peels, avocado pits and peels, etc in my run a lot and never had an issue. Sure, some thing they don't eat, but I'm okay with that, it all composts.