Can chickens eat crab meat?

[Chicka_deee]

Hi y’all!
We fish often and I was wondering something and wanted to check in with y’all first.
Can chickens eat the crab meet?
I know that they can eat the crab shells I was wondering if it was ok for chickens to eat some delicious crab once in a while as a treat.
Or is that weird because crab is meat...?

 

[Nor-Cal Chickens]

Crab meet is great protein for them! Frankly I’m a little jealous I can’t eat it instead

 

[cassie]

Hi y’all!
We fish often and I was wondering something and wanted to check in with y’all first.
Can chickens eat the crab meet?
I know that they can eat the crab shells I was wondering if it was ok for chickens to eat some delicious crab once in a while as a treat.
Or is that weird because crab is meat...?

Chickens are scavengers. They can and do eat anything they can find or catch, and that includes, unfortunately each other. Mine would catch and eat mice. There is no reason the cannot eat crab. Lucky chickens. Wish I could find fresh crabs here where I live.

 

[Beer can]

Hi y’all!
We fish often and I was wondering something and wanted to check in with y’all first.
Can chickens eat the crab meet?
I know that they can eat the crab shells I was wondering if it was ok for chickens to eat some delicious crab once in a while as a treat.
Or is that weird because crab is meat...?

Chickens will eat anything. Protein is good for them to a certain extent. I wouldn't feed them seafood I could eat on purpose, but if you have it and don't want it yourself go ahead.
I made a mistake once traveling from Florida to upstate NY, bought a big paper bag of blue crabs in FL, not knowing anything about storing them kept them in a cooler on ice while driving and in fridge in hotels, two days travel, half of them died on the way home. Not supposed to keep them cold . smashed the dead one's up and threw them to the chickens they gobbled them up!!!
Another time had a ton of shrimp at our place for Christmas, Christmas eve all our kids come down with the flu, worst Christmas ever lol. Christmas day only me and the FIL ate some of the shrimp, next day I got the flu. Days later by time we all felt almost better no one wanted to eat old seafood so all the shrimp got piled up in the coop, chickens fought over them lol . they've ate like kings couple times.

 

[Chicka_deee]

Thanks everyone, defiantly will consider myself eating that crab before my birds do

 

[RoosterML]

Thanks everyone, defiantly will consider myself eating that crab before my birds do

Heck yeah, give them all the parts you won’t eat yourself. Mine love shrimp

 

[PetesChicks]

My girls get the leftover carcasses when we have lobster. I’ll usually just break the bodies apart and throw them in the coop or run. The shells stay quiet a while before they break down into compost, but they get picked clean pretty quick.

 

[Khaleesi_of_the_coop]

mine got a ham bone with the small trimmings attached today. Very happy chooks!