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No idea why with any of 'em. I don't understand the citrus either. Chickens eat apples. That's a basic fact. You only need an apple tree and a chicken to find that out. I expect if you have a citrus tree and a chicken results will be pretty similar to the apple tree/chicken experiment
I guess what I'm saying is that people get a tad carried away. Leave a chicken to itself and it will feed itself. As a kid our chickens ate anything we didn't....if the dog or cat didn't beat them to it. And the dog and cat were a lot choosier.
A chicken would have to eat a bushel of apple seeds to get enough cyanide to kill them & that's assuming the seeds would evem break down in their gizzard.
When I ship birds I put a couple of oranges, cut in half, in the box. Provides some nutrition & moisture during the trip.
Green potato peels are no longer poisonous if thry're cooked so you could feed them if you really wanted to.
A sufficient amount of DARK chocolate is harmful to dogs. It is not logical to assume this is true of chickens. very different body chemistries.
Even the treats list referred to above contains some questionable information. It includes several things I routinely feed with no ill effect.
A basic rule of thumb is: if you can eat it they can eat it. Just use some common sense. Would a diet of only chocolate cake be good for them? Of course not but the remains of a cake once in awhile won't hurt them at all. Same is true of salty things like crackers. If that's all you feed them it won't be good for them but the occasional 1/2 box of stale crackeers is fine.
The whole chicken keeping thing is a lot simpler that many here would have you believe.
Agreed!
Nate
No idea why with any of 'em. I don't understand the citrus either. Chickens eat apples. That's a basic fact. You only need an apple tree and a chicken to find that out. I expect if you have a citrus tree and a chicken results will be pretty similar to the apple tree/chicken experiment
A chicken would have to eat a bushel of apple seeds to get enough cyanide to kill them & that's assuming the seeds would evem break down in their gizzard.
When I ship birds I put a couple of oranges, cut in half, in the box. Provides some nutrition & moisture during the trip.
Green potato peels are no longer poisonous if thry're cooked so you could feed them if you really wanted to.
A sufficient amount of DARK chocolate is harmful to dogs. It is not logical to assume this is true of chickens. very different body chemistries.
Even the treats list referred to above contains some questionable information. It includes several things I routinely feed with no ill effect.
A basic rule of thumb is: if you can eat it they can eat it. Just use some common sense. Would a diet of only chocolate cake be good for them? Of course not but the remains of a cake once in awhile won't hurt them at all. Same is true of salty things like crackers. If that's all you feed them it won't be good for them but the occasional 1/2 box of stale crackeers is fine.
The whole chicken keeping thing is a lot simpler that many here would have you believe.
Agreed!
Nate
