Omnivores! Remember that!

[Demarvell]

Can chickens eat raw meat?​

The bugs, rodents and worms that chickens will eat while free ranging are in effect raw meat. So yes, chickens can eat raw meat.

Obviously, make sure the meat is fresh and showing no signs of rotting, and remove it from the run if it's not been eaten by roosting time.

Fresh meat left in a run is the perfect way to attract both rodents and predators.

They love meat! Why do people think chickens are vegetarians? They eat worms, insects, mice, snakes and whatever they can get their beaks into!

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Can chickens eat raw meat?​

The bugs, rodents and worms that chickens will eat while free ranging are in effect raw meat. So yes, chickens can eat raw meat.

Obviously, make sure the meat is fresh and showing no signs of rotting, and remove it from the run if it's not been eaten by roosting time.

Fresh meat left in a run is the perfect way to attract both rodents and predators.

They love meat! Why do people think chickens are vegetarians? They eat worms, insects, mice, snakes and whatever they can get their beaks into!

This is so true! People forget that chickens can eat meat, and that they should eat meat! Though, its obviously better to cook meat before you feed it to them, just to prevent diseases.

 

[Penpal]

You don't need to cook the meat. My border collie lived to 16 years and always ate raw meat/bones. You don't want to give meat that has gone off. Most animals will reject anything that is bad.

Their systems are made for eating raw meat, and uncooked meat has enzymes that are lacking in cooked meat that help to digest meat.

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

Gosh! Finally somebody said it!!
My rooster will absolutely tear into a snake when he sees one and try pecking into any small critters that get into the coop (Mice, Squirrels etc etc) And not only my rooster but my hens will kill mice and SHARE it. My sister for the longest time believed chickens ate greens and only greens.
You should have seen her face when she saw a hen eating a mouse right outside the back door..

 

[TooCheep]

Mice, worms and large bugs are all natural prey. I love collecting Japanese beetles in the summer into a water bowl and let the girls play "bobbing for beetles".

 

[FrostRanger]

Indeed! My girls will go nuts over any kind of meat. Ginger practically took my finger off when I was giving the girls some shrimp shells! Thank goodness chicken beaks aren't very sharp lol

 

[talkinboutchickens]

The weirdest question I get when I tell someone that I have chickens is "do you get eggs?"

 

[talkinboutchickens]

I fed my chickens a piece of leftover breakfast sausage once! It took them a few seconds to figure out what it was because they hadn't had meat before that, but once one chicken took a bite they were all crowding around the sausage

 

[FrostRanger]

The weirdest question I get when I tell someone that I have chickens is "do you get eggs?"

I don't even have the words for that.... just where do they think eggs come from?

 

[Squawkers]

Definitely! I got so annoyed when I saw "vegetarian fed hens" on an egg carton.