I don’t know why potatoes and potato peelings get such a bad rap. Regular potatoes, raw or cooked, are fine for them. Regular potato peelings, raw or cooked, are fine for them.
Green potatoes and potato peeling contain Solanin. That comes from exposure to light, especially6 sunlight. While one bite won’t kill you or your chickens, if you or your chickens eat a large quantity it can be harmful to you or them. While the concentration varies depending on how much exposure to light they have received, the normal healthy average weight adult human would need to eat maybe 2 pounds of green potatoes to have a harmful effect. Your chickens have a lot less body weight so they would need to eat a lot less, but still one bite won’t hurt them. The green potatoes are so bitter because of the solanin that they are not likely to eat more than a bite anyway, but I still suggest you don’t feed them or your family green potatoes or green potato skins. But regular potatoes are fine. That doesn’t mean the chickens will eat them though. Some will and some won’t.
Lomax Farms, you can offer them about anything from your kitchen scraps. There are some things they won’t eat, yours might be different from mine on that. Some people think every chicken in the world is exactly the same in what they eat but they are not.
I do avoid a few things other than green potatoes and green potato skins. Uncooked dried beans are not good for them. Again one bite won’t kill them but uncooked dried beans contain something not good for you or them. Most fruit seeds like apples or peaches contain cyanide. One seed does not contain enough cyanide to cause any threat at all. If I eat an apple I just throw the core with seeds in the bowl I save that stuff in. If I bake an apple pie, those seeds, peels, and cores are given to the chickens. But if I can a bunch of apple sauce and have a lot of seeds, those do not go to the chickens. Think in terms of moderation. One bite won’t kill them but too much of about anything can be harmful, even the good stuff.
I tossed them a turkey breast carcass this morning. It did not take them long to strip it bare.
Green potatoes and potato peeling contain Solanin. That comes from exposure to light, especially6 sunlight. While one bite won’t kill you or your chickens, if you or your chickens eat a large quantity it can be harmful to you or them. While the concentration varies depending on how much exposure to light they have received, the normal healthy average weight adult human would need to eat maybe 2 pounds of green potatoes to have a harmful effect. Your chickens have a lot less body weight so they would need to eat a lot less, but still one bite won’t hurt them. The green potatoes are so bitter because of the solanin that they are not likely to eat more than a bite anyway, but I still suggest you don’t feed them or your family green potatoes or green potato skins. But regular potatoes are fine. That doesn’t mean the chickens will eat them though. Some will and some won’t.
Lomax Farms, you can offer them about anything from your kitchen scraps. There are some things they won’t eat, yours might be different from mine on that. Some people think every chicken in the world is exactly the same in what they eat but they are not.
I do avoid a few things other than green potatoes and green potato skins. Uncooked dried beans are not good for them. Again one bite won’t kill them but uncooked dried beans contain something not good for you or them. Most fruit seeds like apples or peaches contain cyanide. One seed does not contain enough cyanide to cause any threat at all. If I eat an apple I just throw the core with seeds in the bowl I save that stuff in. If I bake an apple pie, those seeds, peels, and cores are given to the chickens. But if I can a bunch of apple sauce and have a lot of seeds, those do not go to the chickens. Think in terms of moderation. One bite won’t kill them but too much of about anything can be harmful, even the good stuff.
I tossed them a turkey breast carcass this morning. It did not take them long to strip it bare.
