just some ideas for you all to try

maggie144 · Post: # 29658Post **maggie144** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:25 pm

Hi All

I have a few ideas that will help you help the planet.

Recycle all plastic bottles cut the tops off use the bottom half to grow veggies in and use the top bit without the lid threaded on a piece of string which you then string up on poles or canes and they act as a bird detterent and keeps them off your veggies.

carrier bags and bread bags can then be tied to the top of the pole for added security,

All your left over food (cooked) give to your chickens helps them with laying you can also feed back to them the used egg shells too, this helps their digestion.

If you have goats feed them all left over potato peelings, greens etc but NEVER feed then the green tops of the potato plant or rhubarb leaves as these are deadly to goats.

My hens and my cockerel are particularly fond of left over pasta and left over chips. nothing is wasted in my house if i can help it.

hope this helps a bit maggie

greenbean · Post: # 29686Post **greenbean** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:15 pm

Hi Maggie, I am getting chickens in the next few weeks, you say ALL cooked leftovers for chickens, is this right? Do you feed them any leftovers? Rgds, Pam

Wombat · Post: # 29707Post **Wombat** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:19 am

I couldn't give cooked chicken to my chooks! Thats cannibalism!

Luath · Post: # 29721Post **Luath** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:50 am

Certaibly no chicken here, or eggs, but theyaa re very partial to a nice bit of fish

Camile · Post: # 29723Post **Camile** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:04 am

I don't like giving chicken to the hens either ..

but they are completly free range ..

and we gave the bones to the feral cats around us .. as far away as possible from where the hens are ...

and the chooks are actualy chasing the cats off to get the bits !

maybe that's because these 2 roosters were really annoying them when they were alive !

Luath · Post: # 29726Post **Luath** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:43 am

What goes around, comes around.

Camile · Post: # 29731Post **Camile** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:28 am

agree on thaT !

den_the_cat · Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:46 am

cats can choke on chicken bones

(the bones tend to splinter when they're been cooked and stick in their throats)

Camile · Post: # 29737Post **Camile** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:22 am

Oops ..

We didn't give them to the dogs for that reason but someone had told me that cats would be fine !

will stop !

den_the_cat · Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:30 pm

cats are probably generally bright enough to not chew them

but feral kitties might be too hungry to be careful. They make good stock (the chickens, not the cats!)

Camile · Post: # 30740Post **Camile** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:24 am

Them ferral cats are not starving ..

The farmer who owns the barn down the back is feeding them in the morning .. and we feed them at night ! they are well looked after !

The only problem was that the hens went and picked up the remains of the cooked chickens !

Wombat · Post: # 30780Post **Wombat** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:19 am

Ewwwww!

Camile · Post: # 30782Post **Camile** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:22 am

I don't like that either ...

werain · Post: # 30874Post **werain** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:09 am

I read somewhere that you don't give meat products to hens ...all other household cooked food is ok.
Dont you find though that when you give your hens their shells back that they start eating their eggs before you get to them, i did so stopped feeding the shell to them.
Tracy

Shirley · Post: # 30881Post **Shirley** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:59 am

I don't feed my poultry meat either - but they help themselves to lots of flies etc LOL