Seven dead hens within 4 hours, not attacked. UPDATE: Teflon Poisoning!

[Bobby Basham]

Yep and they LOVE it.
Grease from bacon and sausage
Cut up gristle and fat
Congealed stuff from frying burgers

Be careful with their salt content/intake. Too much is not good for them. --BB

 

[bruceha2000]

I almost bought one but the sales associate said that would fry them. I chose a lower 125-watt bulb and that was still too much trying to brood a dozen day-old fuzzy butts in my bathroom, so it had to be suspended more than two feet over their enclosure.

And you'll have to raise it again and again. I brooded my first 12 in a bathtub in the house in 2012. The bathroom was unbelievably hot and that was with a reptile remote pickup thermostat controlling the light. I used the Mama Heating pad for the 2015's and 2017's. Far better for the birds. They were in the house for a couple of days, then out in the barn. The 2015's went under a broody hen to raise. She wasn't interested in the 2017s (best laid plans of mice and men!) so they had their MHP cave in the brooder area of the coop for 3 weeks, THEN she decided she would raise them.

Be careful with their salt content/intake. Too much is not good for them. --BB

They don't get much. Bacon/sausage happens only once a week.

 

[AaronandAlice]

Be careful with their salt content/intake. Too much is not good for them. --BB

Is meat high in sodium even with no salt added?

 

[TwoCrows]

Is meat high in sodium even with no salt added?

There is very little sodium in ground beef naturally. Never salt food meant for chickens, their kidneys are not equipped to flush a lot of salt from their bodies.

 

[Cebarmlds]

processed meats are high in sodium

 

[Bobby Basham]

Is meat high in sodium even with no salt added?

That, I would not know. I've read where some folks give them some raw ground meat and/or canned cat food on occasion to get them through a molt.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Is meat high in sodium even with no salt added?

sausage and bacon are, ground beef should not be (unless cut with bacon fat)
i cut my ground venison with bacon fat

 

[Bobby Basham]

processed meats are high in sodium

Wake up call to read the labels to see what exactly is in our processed foods. If something as innocent as a light bulb that could kill poultry, then we need to see what else is looming out there that could cause harm to humans and animals. Some manufacturers toot "acceptable levels" of this or that contaminant which can't be avoided in our foods/water today.

 

[TwoCrows]

My well water is very very high in sodium. I used it on my flocks for 5 years unknowingly giving them high blood pressure and heart disease. Many in my flock died from heart failure. I was devastated because I didn't know.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

My well water is very very high in sodium. I used it on my flocks for 5 years unknowingly giving them high blood pressure and heart disease. Many in my flock died from heart failure. I was devastated because I didn't know.

thats crazy