|Too tough for chickens to chew on. Chickens will play with them if they are bored though.
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|Too tough for chickens to chew on. Chickens will play with them if they are bored though.
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|Watermellon rinds
|Watermellon rinds
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|Chicken
|Chicken
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|Because they ''are'' chickens. Although chickens will happily eat chicken and other meat products. After [[Raising_Chickens/Death/Butchering|butchering]] a chicken you can leave the skeleton in the pen and they will pick the bones clean. If done on a large scale, making chicken feed from chickens (especially the brain and spinal cord) can lead to an outbreak of [[w:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy|encephalopathy]], similar to mad cow disease.
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|Because they ''are'' chickens. Although chickens will happily eat chicken and other meat products. After [[Raising_Chickens/Death/Butchering|butchering]] a chicken you can leave the skeleton in the pen and they will pick the bones clean. If done on a large scale, making chicken feed from chickens (especially the brain and spinal cord) can lead to an outbreak of [[w:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy|encephalopathy]], similar to mad cow disease.
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|Carrots
|Carrots
Revision as of 21:39, 2 April 2021
Common food that chickens shouldn't/won't eat
Food
Reason
Orange peels
Too tough for chickens to chew on. Chickens will play with them if they are bored though.
Watermellon rinds
Too thick/tough for chickens to chew on
Rye kernels
Chickens don't like them
Chicken
Because they are chickens. Although chickens will happily eat chicken and other meat products. After butchering a chicken you can leave the skeleton in the pen and they will pick the bones clean. If done on a large scale, making chicken feed from chickens (especially the brain and spinal cord) can lead to an outbreak of encephalopathy, similar to mad cow disease.
Carrots
Chickens can't eat large hard chunks but they will eat carrot peels.
Curry
They like it, but it has bad effects on their droppings.