Pullet eating straw

thebean81

Chirping
7 Years
Aug 30, 2016
12
3
82
Camano Island, WA
One of my girls was laying in corner tonight instead of on the roost bar. I caught her eating straw. So we kicked the girls out of the coop and took out all the straw and put down shavings. I don't know how much she ate or how long she's been doing this. What do I need to watch out for? I hope she'll be ok.
 
Are you positive it was straw? I know chickens will eat the feathers that have molted off of other chickens?? If it was a straw I don't really think a few pieces would hurt her provided she has the grit in her gizzard to grind it up.
 
Mine eat the odd bit by accident and I've never had a problem. I have tiny bantams as well as bigger girls. Unless her crop seems unusually full (check in the morning as at night it should be nice and full) I wouldn't worry.
 

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