Styrofoam!

[Polly T]

Many thanks to all for the advice posted here. I am chicken sitting for my neighbors and brought them some leftover (healthy) food yesterday. When I came back later, all the food scraps were gone and so was the styrofoam plate I had brought it on! I was really worried that I might have inadvertently done something that would kill them. Thanks for the reassurance that I probably didn't, although I won't make this mistake again. Today I am using a metal pan!

 

[Chicks Galore3]

Mmmm styrofoam. Chickens love styrofoam. Luckily they seem to tolerate eating it pretty well. I wouldn't purposely give it to them but I've heard of large amounts of styrofoam insulation or entire incubators drying in the yard being eaten with the chickens having no problems. At minimum stick to paper plates. I use those plastic pans for rabbit cages to throw treats on.

I have some leftover rabbit pans, i think'll use that!

 

[donrae]

Gosh, I must be a total redneck or sumpin' - I toss their treats on the GROUND in the run! (When I'm not feeding them from my hands.)

Lawdy, lawdy. Whut kin I find to use fer chicken treats? Already use one o' them baking trays fer a shaller waterer and toesies cooler-offer!

Must rethink this. What WILL the neighbors say???

 

[wekiva bird]

Mine got to the stuff about a month ago they are still here.

They love the stuff , so hide it so they will not get in the stuff again.

 

[Chicks Galore3]

I find it amusing how much they like it! It's like kids for ice cream! or mommy's to chocolate!

 

[debid]

I have a "chicken tray" and a compost bucket by the sink these days. The chicken tray is a reused meat tray but I only save the ones that are plastic, not foam. And yes, I sometimes toss the stuff on the ground for them (the neighbors don't say a word) but other times it's easier to just give them the tray (like if I dumped some leftover oatmeal in there...)

 

[K-12 Chickens]

My chickies love the stuff probably because it reminds them of bread. It hasn't caused ill effects in them at all. What I would probably say to my chickens: "When I said free-range I didn't mean you had to eat EVERYTHING!"

 

[pheonixstar15a]

Linda, i am a total redneck from Florida and i also just throw it on the ground, infact when i used to just put their water in an open bucket and some over flowed on the ground, they loved to drink first on the ground before even drinking the fresh water in the bucket, from that i learned they are not fussy where their food and water comes from.