The local Pizza Restaurant is giving us their scraps of pizza and salad.

Although I have a hard time thinking fresh veggies and fruit are somehow bad for chickens, I would be concerned about salad fixing from a commercial business. The main reason is that they treat their produce with questionable chemicals so that they remain fresh looking much longer than what you have in the fridge. Some people have sensitivities to the treatments used and they only eat those foods occasionally. So, for me, feeding them those salads on a regular basis would not be an option.

Just a bit of FYI...Food Additives are Strictly regulated by the FDA. While there are Approved Salad Preservatives, they are nothing Scary! They mostly used commercially then the Ball Company released a version for household use. I believe it was about the 1980's that we first saw Fruit Fresh sold to the public. Below are the ingredients, mostly Antioxidants to keep cut Greens and Fruit from turning Brown...JJ

Ball Fruit-Fresh Produce Protector Ingredients: Dextrose, Ascorbic Acide (Vitamin C), Citric Acid, Silicon Dioxide (anti-caking), Contains no sulfates
 
No to pizza or to salad with dressing. My vet even yells at me for feeding my chickens too many mealworms as she considers them to have too much fat. I have read on multiple occasions never to feed your chickens any food you wouldn't eat yourself, i.e., no spoiled food.

If you're looking for free food I would much rather get blemished produce from grocery stores.
 
I still don't get it! How can she have 11 year old chickens in such conditions???? I'll go down to give them kale or dandelions and they're just as happy and healthy as can be! Tons of eggs too! :he Lol!
My sister in law claims to know someone who has a huge outdoor flock and feeds their chickens nothing. Bro. can't understand why I "waste" money on food. He doesn't know what it's like when they fly at you screaming when you're late with the feed, and the fights that can occur. I suppose wild chickens subsist on whatever they can find, and I vaguely remember an article in a mag. (Mother Earth ?) about someone who got huge loads of scraps delivered from restaurants and dumped to compost and be eaten by their chickens. I think it said they lived on that, and whatever they foraged.
 
No to pizza or to salad with dressing. My vet even yells at me for feeding my chickens too many mealworms as she considers them to have too much fat. I have read on multiple occasions never to feed your chickens any food you wouldn't eat yourself, i.e., no spoiled food.

If you're looking for free food I would much rather get blemished produce from grocery stores.


If that’s the case then my chickens would starve to death. There is no way I would ever eat chicken pellets.
 
Hello! The local Pizza Restaurant is giving us their scraps of pizza and salad. I really want to stop buying 50lbs of feed every month. What is the maximum percent of pizza scraps that I can give my chickens? Thank you!
Basically they are giving you their GARBAGE. Your chickens should get a nutritionally complete chicken feed every day as scraps do not meet the nutritional requirements. How many chickens do you have that requires 50 lb of feed every month? If you can't afford to feed them properly chicken feed perhaps you should reduce the number of your flock.
 
My sister in law claims to know someone who has a huge outdoor flock and feeds their chickens nothing. Bro. can't understand why I "waste" money on food. He doesn't know what it's like when they fly at you screaming when you're late with the feed, and the fights that can occur. I suppose wild chickens subsist on whatever they can find, and I vaguely remember an article in a mag. (Mother Earth ?) about someone who got huge loads of scraps delivered from restaurants and dumped to compost and be eaten by their chickens. I think it said they lived on that, and whatever they foraged.
There's a video on youtube. It's pretty fun to watch, he's got a system and heavy equipment to turn giant piles.
 

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