Red Pile Chickens

Are there any particular things that chickens shouldn't be fed?

Originally Posted by Chris Steele

Are there any particular things that chickens shouldn't be fed?

I dunno...but if you feed them chicken they might get offended and do bad stuff to you in your sleep...
J/K

Originally Posted by Chris Steele

Are there any particular things that chickens shouldn't be fed?

Not really.....as long as they have a good steady diet of grain, they can have just about anything they will eat. I keep a self-feeder of cracked corn available for them all of the time, and mix in some laying mash sometimes in the height of the laying season. Always have grit available....but from there, I give mine a lot of things like leftover bread, (no one will eat the heel in my house, lol) tater peels, they LOVE it when you give them canteloupe or melon rinds, leftover veggies....whatever. As long as it isn't the mainstay of their diet.

Originally Posted by Ilovesnakes1234

I dunno...but if you feed them chicken they might get offended and do bad stuff to you in your sleep...

Actually.....I throw leftover from dinner into a pan outside the door for the cats, and the turkeys and chickens hear me call the kitties to the door, and they come a running too....it's kinda creepy watching chickens eat chicken, but they do. LOL.

And not to be gross here, but back when we were raising our own meat chickens, and it was butchering time, the other chickens would stand around the "cleaning" table, and fight over the uh.....scraps.

Originally Posted by Cat_72

And not to be gross here, but back when we were raising our own meat chickens, and it was butchering time, the other chickens would stand around the "cleaning" table, and fight over the uh.....scraps.

I wouldn't doubt that a bit and I've fed mine chicken scraps a few times too.. makes me feel like im playing a cruel trick haha, but they love it.

Its bad for about everything else, chickens too?

I have used pine shavings for bedding under my "broiler" chickens when we used to raise them with no ill effects.....as long as they are not young chicks, I don't worry about pine. I don't think I would use cedar at all, though....I guess I personally don't have any solid evidence that it would cause problems in chickens, but I just wouldn't feel comfortable using it knowing the problems it can present in other species.