Chcken eating onion

[chicken keeper elena]

My chickens have an acccess to compost. My compost has many vegitables from supermarkets. Mychickens are street smart to eat only what is good for them or tast good. They like fruits and some vegies. hovewer, I noticed that when onion get frozen and soft it is the tag game for my chickens, they fight for it. I knoe it is toxic and they do not eat fresh onion, but crazy for soggy frozed one. Anybody noticed that with their chickens?

 

[nuthatched]

I'd stop putting onions in the Compost as long as the chickens have access to it.

 

[saysfaa]

No but I would look up what it is about onion that is toxic. Then look for info on whether freezing neutralizes that.

Or I might monitor for a while. Chicken will sometimes eat things for a little while so the reactions tell them not to.

I wouldn't be very worried about the tag. That is an instinctive reaction to the actions of the first chicken to grab at the onion. As they figure out onion isn't good (if it isn't good), they will grab at it less. Um. Probably or maybe. Hence the monitoring.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Generally speaking, chickens with choices will not eat to excess anything likely to be harmful to them in the short term. They do "explore the world with their beaks" and are more likely to injest something they shouldn't either because its moving, or its new.

I wouldn't panic over a bit of onion among the rest. I don't, in fact - and I throw onion peels, the tough greenish outer layers of onion, and bits of the root into my compost pile all the time. The chickens ignore it, which sometimes results in bits of onion paper walking across the yard in a stiff breeze.

I would not, however, tractor a bunch of Cx together with a pot of french onion soup to eat.

 

[saysfaa]

I'm sorry. But going to say the following anyway.

I opened the new posts and saw the title of this one. I don't know why I didn't see it before but ...

I want pictures of this onion that eats the chickens!!

Is this one the only such onion or do we need to keep an eye out for new ones spread.

How do we protect our chickens?