red pepper

[SparksNV]

do you use ground cayenne pepper or crushed red pepper flakes? how much do you add to your feed? do you add it to dry feed or do you make a mash? I am trying this to encourage egg laying. thanks!

 

[maizey]

I just started using it to discourage worms, as per the advice I received on here. I use cayanne powder and i mix it with the crumbles until it colors the feed a rusty color. The chicks are eating it well and I just orderd a pound for 7 dollars from myspicesage.com. They are only 8 weeks so can't attest to whether or not it affects laying. They have only been eating about 2 days so other than attesting to the fact that they do indeed eat it, I cant verify much at all...but im hopful!

 

[Judy]

I sprinkle it on the poop in the yard to keep the dog from eating it.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

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I did'nt know it did anything for laying but my girls get a good dose of it from mac&cheese left overs. They love my weekly mac and cheese.

 

[SparksNV]

I have sprinkled it around my veggies in my garden and around the top of my fence to keep the neighbor's cat out.

I want to try it for egg laying though.

 

[redonthehead]

ROFL! I had no idea you could even feed it to the chickens... love the spreading it on the poop comment! Ha ha!

On a side note, we mix our laying mash with boiling water and the hens LOVE it... occasionally when we just give them the dry mix their egg production goes down. I don't know what it is about the "hot mix" as I call it, but it seems to push the eggs right out of them.

 

[CMV]

Red pepper has no impact whatsoever on laying. It's an old wives' tale.

If you want to encourage laying this time of year use supplemental lighting. That is a proven way of doing it.

Pepper on the poop... Funny. I like the way you think, ddawn.

 

[brother-al]

i dont know what it does for egg prod. but my birds love the leaves the peppers the whole plant. cleaned my plants up

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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Your dog must be a wuss.LOL.
My tough as nails "pooper eaters" toy breed house dogs think I put the powder or hot sauce on poop as a condiment.Not LOL for me!

 

[mulewagon]

After I read that it might discourage rodents (apparently there's a brand of birdseed that includes pepper to keep squirrels from eating it) I started adding cayenne to dry feed. I just mix in as much as I can tolerate smelling