How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Can Chickens eat fish

Rhonda
You have one patient horse.
Chickens are amazing. My girls flock to the gate every morning to see what I am bringing. So far the only thing they will not eat is the yam skin. They'll peck out every bit of yam, but leave the skin.
My neighbor told me that chickens will eat anything that will not eat them -- including yourself. Told me about a gal who had a heart attack and the chickens started to eat her. Normally, I'd be horrified, but now, no -- we come from dust and return to dust.
Laurie

--- On Mon, 10/22/12, sidesaddle5@yahoo.com <sidesaddle5@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: sidesaddle5@yahoo.com <sidesaddle5@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Can Chickens eat fish
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, October 22, 2012, 12:15 PM

<<First any available seafood is good protein, Second if there is any meat left in the tails you need to learn how to peel shrimp. :)>>

<g> Actually, I didn''t think there *was* anything much left in the tails... But DH likes to feed them things, so I figured it couldn't do them any harm. They just gathered round and stared at them at first, muttering questions, but once somebody grabbed one, they all scrummed for the rest!

They *did* eat something truly disgusting today, though. One of the horses is having a nasty bout with lymphangitis--finally has stopped weeping and the swelling subsiding a little, so since he's able to shuffle I brought him up to the yard to wash and Furacin the leg. The back of the pastern is peeling and raw now... Chickens all came running to see what was going on, and they were grabbing the bits of skin that had washed off and were eating those. Ugh. I hope Furacin and Betadine soap aren't lethal. Good Padi, though--with all those chickens squabbling under his feet, plus me shoving them away, he didn't move!

Rhonda

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