Feeding chickens raccoons

[McChooky]

Bio-magnification doesn't create new toxins. There will never be more toxins in the maggots eating a raccoon than existed originally in that raccoon

It's functionally the same as chickens eating the raccoon directly, just less efficient because of the energy loss from raccoon to maggot conversion

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4052663/
"the disease spreads through necrophagous flies depositing eggs on dead and toxic animal carcasses. The resulting maggots feed on the carcasses and concentrate the botulinum toxin. When other animals ingest the toxic maggots, they become the next victims (the carcass–maggot cycle)"

 

[McChooky]

Bio-magnification doesn't create new toxins. There will never be more toxins in the maggots eating a raccoon than existed originally in that raccoon

It's functionally the same as chickens eating the raccoon directly, just less efficient because of the energy loss from raccoon to maggot conversion

Black soldier fly larvae and Fly larvae are not the same but I probably won't be able to convince you of this

 

[No Coop No Problem]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4052663/
"the disease spreads through necrophagous flies depositing eggs on dead and toxic animal carcasses. The resulting maggots feed on the carcasses and concentrate the botulinum toxin. When other animals ingest the toxic maggots, they become the next victims (the carcass–maggot cycle)"

This is talking about botulism, which as has already been established, is a non-issue. The body is capable of metabolizing many different toxins

Out in my yard I have a ton of pokeweed growing. If I ate any part of the plant the toxins would kill me. However my chickens are immune to the various toxins in pokeweed and it's one of their favorite foods. Every year they eat these giant 10 foot pokeweeds down to tiny nubs, and I in turn eat their meat and eggs

The chickens metabolize and destroy both pokeweed toxins and botulism toxins. These kinds of toxins are a non-issue

 

[McChooky]

This is talking about botulism, which as has already been established, is a non-issue. The body is capable of metabolizing many different toxins

Out in my yard I have a ton of pokeweed growing. If I ate any part of the plant the toxins would kill me. However my chickens are immune to the various toxins in pokeweed and it's one of their favorite foods. Every year they eat these giant 10 foot pokeweeds down to tiny nubs, and I in turn eat their meat and eggs

The chickens metabolize and destroy both pokeweed toxins and botulism toxins. These kinds of toxins are a non-issue

My chickens have never found my pokeweed .Its growing on the other side of the fence but botulism is nothing to play with.Its symptoms can mimic Mareks disease so you wouldn't know it was larvae

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

Dude, relocation is not against the law. Or drive and drop as you call it. It’s totally acceptable. It’s one of the things we recommend in wildlife management. Another idea is what we call humane eviction.

Maybe it's not where you are, but it is where I am.

https://dem.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur861/files/2024-03/norelok8.pdf

 

[TexasBlues]

This is talking about botulism, which as has already been established, is a non-issue. The body is capable of metabolizing many different toxins

Out in my yard I have a ton of pokeweed growing. If I ate any part of the plant the toxins would kill me. However my chickens are immune to the various toxins in pokeweed and it's one of their favorite foods. Every year they eat these giant 10 foot pokeweeds down to tiny nubs, and I in turn eat their meat and eggs

The chickens metabolize and destroy both pokeweed toxins and botulism toxins. These kinds of toxins are a non-issue

Trichinosis is what I’d be concerned passing from raccoon to chicken to human.
I have heard of people successfully putting dead varmints in one like you described for maggots and such. I think they said they added dry straw in the bucket and it cut down on the odor.

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Hmmm. My take on this is that I keep chickens for eggs. I am VERY careful what my birds eat since I am the ultimate consumer of those eggs. So, no, I do not feed them anything I would not serve on my own table!

 

[McChooky]

I prefer fencing predators out because it requires no guns or traps or vehicles for transporting them to new locations on same property or a friend who agreed to take it. Would I consider feeding a coon to my flock? Nope.That parasite is no joke

Hmmm. My take on this is that I keep chickens for eggs. I am VERY careful what my birds eat since I am the ultimate consumer of those eggs. So, no, I would not feed them anything I would not serve on my own table!

I agree 100% but had to laugh at how you worded this! I know you wouldn't eat chicken mash lol

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

I prefer fencing predators out because it requires no guns or traps or vehicles for transporting them to new locations on same property or a friend who agreed to take it. Would I consider feeding a coon to my flock? Nope.That parasite is no joke

I agree 100% but had to laugh at how you worded this! I know you wouldn't eat chicken mash lol

Touche! Yes, I do feed commercial layer crumbles but pretty much everything else comes from the same garden/orchard as my dinner! The only predators I haven't been able to fence out are snakes. Those I dispatch on sight and bury in the manure pile.

 

[No Coop No Problem]

I do not feed them anything I would not serve on my own table!

You don't let your chickens eat bugs?