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My Girls love the Thanksgiving leftovers,I know it sounds weird but they love any kind of protein they can get and that includes turkey as of this morning.
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I just want to mention, dont forget left over SOUP.
You can easily microwave it in the morning and give it to them.
Mine are getting ..Chicken and Veg (all veg tho just chicken broth) with the left over dumpling warmed up in the morning.
I think it's just over-salty foods.
AL, with 60 chickens, I'd be surprised if your left-overs would go very far.
This book Mineral Tolerance of Domestic Animals, gives 2% dietary salt as the "maximum tolerable level" for chickens and turkeys. You should note that this is a lower level than for cows and sheep.
In Nutrient Requirements of Poultry, none of their chick diets have as much as 1%.
With the adults eating say 110 grams of feed each day - 2 grams of salt would be only tolerable. Perhaps, 1/2 gram would be needed.
A teaspoon of salt is about 5 grams. It looks like that would be just about enuf to kill a hen. Maybe even a half of a teaspoon would be fatal.
On average, American adults are eating over 8 grams of salt a day but we are consuming that with about 2 pounds of food (still too much salt!). That's enuf food for 5 or 6 chickens. Two pounds of food is about 1,000 grams so our food is a little too salty for a chicken but IF WE'D JUST CUT DOWN on the salt - chicken and human should both be okay.
Steve
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I suppose it could be safe if it's not a whole lot divided by a bunch of chickens... but after reading that, I don't know if I would risk it.
I forgot about the broth! (probably because I normally don't eat) But very good point.