Trying to winterize my coop I made a big MISTAKE! Help!

[luvbiddies]

Hi everyone, with the cold weather here last week I really worried about my chicken run which is about 10 feet long. So I had my husband buy me a piece of that 1 1/2 pink insulation board and had him put it up around the side of my coop. Well my girls decided to peak in it and had one piece completely down. So I took it down today. Number one, I am worried about my girls eating that, are their eggs contaminated and has anyone made this mistake and they are their chickens survived?????

 

[Chickenaddict]

Mine have eaten the foam insulation before and are still alive and kicking to this day. Unless they ate a substantial amount I wouldn't worry too much. I would keep an eye on their crop I would imagine it doesn't digest very well if at all and may cause a blockage requiring crop surgery.

 

[Roy]

I have made the same mistake, for some reason they love to eat it. I was a bit worried but, had no ill effects.

 

[Benelli]

Mine pecked at the insulation where the corners didn't quite meet on my pumphouse(problem is solved now). They weren't laying at the time and they don't appear to have suffered any ill effects. They're about 7 months old now and seem really healthy. I read it wasn't good either after the fact. I never dreamed they'd peck the stuff off or it would have been covered before letting them run around.

 

[horsejody]

Once a a whole bunch of styrofoam packing peanuts were blowing all over the yard. The chickens went nuts. I tried to stop them, but they ran around eating them. Yes, they were swallowing whole packing peanuts and running around chasing eachother with them screaming like they were candy. Nobody got sick or died.

 

[The Chicken People]

Mine ate the foam insulation off the house and they are fine!

 

[Megs]

mine ate a little bit of that as well as "great stuff" expanding foam (filler), they were all ok, didnt ingest to much of it (just what was on the bottom 1' of the coop)

 

[sonew123]

yup I insulated with the pink insulation boards too and yes they ate it loved it actually-we had to quickly cover it all and all the extra pieces cover up with tarps-terds! they are fine-we just didnt eat their eggs for a few weeks? dont ask me why I just couldnt bare the thought of pink yolks...LOL..

 

[Dar]

so as you can tell a great number of us have done the same thing.... me too!

we were demolishing one coop and rebuilding another and the old one had the white foam insulation. you know the stuff the kids like to scratch and it looks like snow... well we had it all over the place and the chickens went NUTS... it was snowing in August... they ran all over the place as the wind was blowing it... they were fine.... the thought never occurred to me to stop eating the eggs... opps

 

[kipepeo]

Mine also ate the expanding foam insulation for holes and cracks I never dreamed they would do that. No ill effects and they were not laying eggs then