potato peels?

[loanwizard]

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Potatoes are in the Solanum Family along with tomato and eggplant should we stop eating/feeding them raw also?

Chris

Come on, you've been here long enough to know that if you're going to feed eggplant to your chooks, it should be lightly breaded, then sauteed and topped with Hollandaise sauce. A nice Riesling is optional, but preferred.

Looks like Clay Mudd is an alias for Chef Tell..... Just sayin....

 

[P-Funk]

Clay, when are you coming over to cook?

 

[billfields]

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That's just not so.

I spent my childhood lugging the peelings form the potatoes my mother cooked for supper to our chickens on a daily basis. Not one ever dropped dead from them. Nor have mine who I just left a few minutes ago pecking on potato peels. You can eat all the raw potato peels you want ...if you would want to... and not get sick unless they were green. Someone already posted the snopes article which points out that an adult would have to eat 4 and 1/2 lbs of green potatoes to be at risk. You (nor your chickens) are at any risk from eating regular old non-green potato peels.

That you cannot feed chickens potato peels is just about the worst piece of misinformation that floats around here. When anyone asks about doing it someone is sure to (in cyber equivalent) run waving their arms yelling NO! NO!! NO!!!!! It all comes from the fact that potatoes (and tomatoes) are in the nightshade family. The vines green vines are not good to eat and the potato tubers will also turn green if they are exposed to the sun. Once they do, they, like the green vines are not good to eat. (see the above link to the snopes article) But regular potato peels are not deadly to chickens or people or other critters and you don't have to cook them. If you are going to go to the trouble of cooking 'em, you might as well put on some cheese and bacon bits, a dollop of sour cream and make 'tater skins. Which, were it me, I would eat myself instead of giving to the to the chickens!

I'm pretty sure potato peels are not a major source of nutrition but they are not going to hurt a chicken---or you. I've seen that treat list too and I agree, it isn't always right. It's certainly not about potato peelings. Just don't feed chickens the vines or green parts of potatoes and they'll be fine.

 

[Ridgerunner]

This is from the chart. What is wrong with it?

Raw green potato peels Toxic substance called Solanine.


I am not convinced the chart is wrong as much as many people just can't read.

 

[gale65]

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This is also from the chart:
Potatos / Sweet Potatos/Yams

Cooked only - avoid green parts of peels!
Starchy, not much nutrition

For one thing potatoes and sweet potatoes are completely different. They are from two completely different botanical families.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=69

 

[Clay Mudd]

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Looks like Clay Mudd is an alias for Chef Tell..... Just sayin....

Ha! I actually had to google "Chef Tell" to understand this. He sounds a little like a former boss of mine, a Swiss chef who move to the US and built a bit of a food empire...




have to confess I've gotten way too lazy to make real Hollandaise lately....

 

[billfields]

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I can read just fine thanks. What the chart I see says is: "Potatos / Sweet Potatos/Yams Cooked only - avoid green parts of peels! Starchy, not much nutrition."

"Cooked only". You do not have to cook potatoes or potato peels before you give them to chickens or eat them yourself. (And sweet potatoes and yams have nothing to do with green skins and nightshade, they are from a different genus, the same one as morning glories)

Now, there may be several charts but this one: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart clearly says you have to cook potatoes (and sweet potatoes and yams) before giving them to chickens.

 

[Chris09]

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Up a little higher under Potatos / Sweet Potatos/Yams it says,
Cooked only - avoid green parts of peels! Starchy, not much nutrition.
Last I checked there seem to be a good bit of nutrition in potatoes,
White potato, baked, flesh and skin, without salt.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2770/2
Also I believe that you would have to cook the potatoes at 300* + to kill the toxin that is in a green potato. (as stated by other Potatoes / Sweet Potatos/Yams are all different)

Popcorn - Popped, no butter, no salt.
Why do you have to pop the pop corn and you don't have to do any thing to regular field corn? (you don't have to pop popcorn)

Citrus is on the do not feed list.

http://ps.fass.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/4/1219
Cobb color-sexed broilers were fed diets containing either 0.0, 2.5, 5.0 or 10.0 percent citrus sludge. Three replications of ten males and ten females each were randomly selected from each treatment at the end of the eight-week feeding period. No significant (P< 0.05) differences among levels of citrus sludge were found in carcass weight, percent cooking loss, shear force or sensory evaluation.

Eggs collected from Babcock B-300 hens fed diets prepared with citrus sludge at levels of 0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 20.0% were examined for differences in yolk color and development of off-flavors. Color differences (P < 0.05) were observed by reflectance colorimetery and the taste panel. The hue of the yolks increased (was more orange) as the dietary citrus sludge levels were increased. No significant flavor differences were detected by the taste panel for either the yolk or albumen.
Florida Agr. Exp. Stas. Journal Series No. 6066.

Citric Acid is used most if not all Poultry/Livestock Electrolyte mixes so I would say that it has nothing to do with the Acid levels in the Citrus.

Chris

 

[oneofseven]

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Potatoes are in the Solanum Family along with tomato and eggplant should we stop eating/feeding them raw also?

Chris

Come on, you've been here long enough to know that if you're going to feed eggplant to your chooks, it should be lightly breaded, then sauteed and topped with Hollandaise sauce. A nice Riesling is optional, but preferred.

 

[oneofseven]

The reason you pop corn is to allow the corn to be digested. The cracked corn we give the chickens is "cracked" for a reason. Otherwise, they would sell it whole. Typically, seeds in shells pass right through most animals. This gives many seeds the necessary medium to start the germination process.