Salt water block for chickens

[Henry&Friends]

Why do we trust horses and cows to eat the right amount of salt, but we don't trust chickens to do the same?

My chicken ate my nose ring....

 

[aart]

I use Himalayan blocks on a rope for my donkey and hang them over a fence post at head height for him, out of reach for the birds.

OK, sorry but, picturing chicken on fence post noshing away at block.

 

[coach723]

OK, sorry but, picturing chicken on fence post noshing away at block.

LOL! My chickens are too lazy to fly all the way up there!!
Actually, the chickens are fenced with wobbly wire fence they can't perch on between them and the donkey fence. So never been an issue. Not sure the donkey would share with them either.

 

[Chicken Heel]

While I understand the need for proper nutrition especially with confined birds, the prettiest and healthiest chickens I ever saw were my Grandpa Shook's game and bantam mixes. They had access to little or no supplemental chicken feed but ate what the plow horse and milk cow left on the ground (feed and manure). He gave them raw cows milk every day and there were salt blocks lying around. There were even cured Burley tobacco leave residuals lying throughout the barn which they probably pecked at as well.

 

[Folly's place]

Your grandpa's landrace/ game birds ate pretty well, but their genetics and environment aren't what most of us are raising and feeding now!
mary

 

[aart]

LOL! My chickens are too lazy to fly all the way up there!!
Actually, the chickens are fenced with wobbly wire fence they can't perch on between them and the donkey fence. So never been an issue. Not sure the donkey would share with them either.

Now I'm picturing a donkey eating a chicken ..sorry, my brain is not right today.

 

[Folly's place]

You never know with donkeys...
Mary

 

[coach723]

You never know with donkeys...

That's a fact! Depends on what his mood is at the moment. He's generally pretty mellow, but he does have his moments. If a stray dog goes through he's pretty pissy the rest of the day!!

 

[Henry&Friends]

Now I'm picturing a donkey eating a chicken ..sorry, my brain is not right today.

I guess it’s true, everything wants a chicken dinner!

 

[aart]

I guess it’s true, everything wants a chicken dinner!

Well, and there was that thread the other day showing a video of a horse eating a chick.