Stop Using Metal Dishes Now

[sandiatonimarie]

You can even find those galvanized waterers and feeders in antique stores and they're still good to use. i can't believe that as long as those dishes have been around -- like 100 years at least -- that farmers had lots of dead or blind chickens and no one would know about it.

Metal can react with certain chemicals and create a problem - this is clearly noted on some of the chicken medications and to not use them with metal waterers but just metal waterer in general as a chicken killer - you'd have to show me the study, too.

 

[bumpershoot]

were you feeding grains or something like ACV out of the tins? ACV is an acid and never good to put in tin. Grains are not and I can't imagine why something as inert as dried grain would be a problem out of something used for human food consumption for a very very long time. As was asked before, please post the links.

 

[DragonEggs]

We studied this in High School. Pretty much it's only the cans your food comes in thats harmful. While the food is stored in it it's fine because it's air tight and no bacteria can get in, but once you open the can you are suppose to empty the contents and not store any leftovers in the original can. I can't remember the exact reasoning behind this... must have been one of those days I was doodling, LOL

 

[Sunny the Hippie Chick]

I used tuna fish cans as feed dishes for my quail. The water was from rabbit water bottles. My quail ended up dying from old age. And the only one that was blind. Was blind in one eye because of a mean roo..

Please post links to these studies..

 

[ranchhand]

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The mercury is in the fish, not the can, so it's fine once washed.

I've used old galvanized, stainless steel, tuna cans, aluminum pans, etc. for 18 years. And I've NEVER had a chicken go blind. Pewter contains lead which can cause blindness after prolonged exposure, but the odds of someone using expensive pewter are slim, I would think.

As far as metal flakes? Hmmm.... I'd think that would linger from improper washing.

Until I see some concrete, scientifically based evidence I'm skeptical. Sometimes folks forget that just because it's on the internet, it does NOT mean it's true. ETA, read my sig line, it's my mantra!

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

http://www.ecocenter.org/press/releases/20100517.php

this only pertains to canned foods has nothing to do at all with chicken feeders, you should never feed any animal with anything other then galvanized or plastic.
Edited- to say the link above is the michigan report he speaks of.

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

i should have pointed out the mercury is only in the fish.. my ocd for cross contamination was in overdrive

 

[Settin'_Pretty]

tin cans used nowadays are steel with a plating of tin to keep the steel from rusting, and most of the new cans (new being the last 15 to 20 years) also have plastic coating inside.

 

[HorseFeathers]

I'm not buying it. Ours have a metal waterer, and grit and oyster shell in tuna cans. They can all see just fine.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

It is my understanding that zinc is not a good metal for the chooks. I too use galvanized two gallon "doulble walled" waterers.

One even has a bit of rust, guess I really should throw this one.

I would think that BACTERIA, not the metal is the problem here. I bleach and put used metal waterers in the sun for a few weeks.

I change the water EVERY DAY, no exceptions, do not even entertain not doing this.

I believe this is what keeps my flock healthy. When I feel slime, i bleach and sterilize again.

i use plastic wateres for the babies since medications and ACV are oftem used for these little ones.

Raising chickens is an art and a science. I do things that most people would simply look at me like a dog that heard a wierd noise.

I works for me and no one is going to change the why I treat my chooks.