opinions on feeding chickens chicken meat and bones?

[poultrylubber]

Wondering what everyone thinks about giving chickens the meat of there own kind.

 

[tdhenson86]

It depends on what exactly you're feeding them. If it is ground and processed very carefully, it is not too bad. You just have to be careful, because if you don't know where the meat and bones came from, they could carry disease. That disease would then be passed to your birds. If you know it is from a disease-free source and processed well, it is not much different than feeding them fish meal (which is in many, many laying feeds and show-quality feeds).

 

[Fred's Hens]

You're asking about chickens eating chicken if I understand your question correctly.

Oh boy! Will they ever!

 

[EricaD]

I gave our chickens the carcass of a roasted chicken after I had pulled off most of the meat. They picked it clean and loved it, but I confess it totally creeped me out. Not sure I'll do that again, lol, just feels WRONG.

 

[CarolJ]

Chickens are opportunistic eaters. If it's available and it's edible - they'll most likely eat it. Whenever I roast a chicken, I put the scrap bones & skin aside for the chickens (after I've made chicken stock from it) - and they love it.

 

[Vicky2479]

I avoid it, it makes me squeamish, it is the reason I don't feed pellets to my hens cause i have heard that most of the animal protein it them comes from chickens and like one of the others said I don't know where those chickens came from so for me it is a no.

 

[Fred's Hens]

I don't where the worms, bugs, insects, grubs and other yucky stuff has been either, but the chickens insist on eating that stuff. They'd eat a mouse and gobble it down before anyone could stop them and I don't even want to know where rodents have been.

Chickens simply don't have the moral sensibilities that we have about such things. I won't buy a vegetarian layer formula, if I have a choice, and I do, so animal protein and fat is included. It's not like I have a lot of left over chicken to feed them, but if I did, you bet. They absolutely go nuts over it. Fed them a couple of old sausage patties that had been in the frig for a few days. It was absolute ruckus!!!

We all do realize that we must never pass out or have a seizure in the coop or run? All that would be left is my specks and my Kubota hat.

 

[tdhenson86]

We all do realize that we must never pass out or have a seizure in the coop or run? All that would be left is my specks and my Kubota hat.

Ha ha ha!!! It might require you to be out for awhile, but if you were laying in the pen with them for a few days, you bet you'd become food. Pretty disturbing to think about.

 

[SSTupperware]

They will most certinaly devour it... Carcus on Halloween with chickens eatin... great party gag... Get them all...

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Chickens are not, nor meant to be, vegetarians. When feeding carcasses, the only downside I can think of is that the remaining bones tend to attract hornets. We just clean up when the birds are through.