Sure, Everyone Loves Bacon!

[NewBoots]

So I was cleaning up after breakfast this morning and the bacon fat container was already full so I wondering if bacon fat can be given to chickens? Maybe mixed in with rolled oats and other kitchen scraps?

 

[EggWalrus]

They love bacon drippings! EVERYONE LOVES BACON DRIPPINGS !
You can pour it on an old dead possum and they'll leave nothing but the bones!

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

I would not! Giving chickens fat like that can cause fatty liver disease. Also I never feed my hens meat! Vegetarian is the healthiest diet for chickens.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

They love bacon drippings! EVERYONE LOVES BACON DRIPPINGS !
You can pour it on an old dead possum and they'll leave nothing but the bones!

I hope you are majorly joking.

 

[SniperGoose]

I mean, I'm sure they would probably eat it. But I wouldn't advise giving it to them. Very very unhealthy.

 

[EggWalrus]

I hope you are majorly joking.

Ain't joking one bit!
But you have to use moderation with bacon drippings. You can mix in about a 1/2 to 1/4 cup to 5 gals of soaked Alfalfa pellets till they aquire a taste for the alfalfa. Personally, I only use it to get them to eat new foods, but yeah, I wouldn't feed them more than a couple spoons per bird per week. It makes their coat shiny too.

 

[lilmillefleur]

I would not! Giving chickens fat like that can cause fatty liver disease. Also I never feed my hens meat! Vegetarian is the healthiest diet for chickens.

I mean, chickens eat bugs and sometimes even mice or frogs so not technically vegetarian...XD

 

[EggWalrus]

Feeding chickens a vagitarian diet will lead to poor sick chickens that die early. Chickens are Omnivores that will eat and are meant to eat plants, grains, meat, bugs, and just about anything that doesn't eat them first. It's just how God made them. That's how they have survived for millions of years.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

I mean, chickens eat bugs and sometimes even mice or frogs so not technically vegetarian...XD

I know, but bugs and fish are acceptable even for vegaterions.

 

[EggWalrus]

Everything in moderation!