Most chicken holders in the back garden that we know are left with their chickens.But this does not mean that residue is good for chickens.
Many chickens are even health problems caused by poor diet.
Chicken farmers feed their birds -for many reasons: save money on food because the chickens enjoy it or to see food waste turn into healthy eggs.
But ordinary kitchen remains can be unhealthy for chocks.Giving your chickens residue can actually be very bad for them.
Why remains are bad for chicks
Although chicken farmers don't like to hear, the simple answer is that leftovers are bad for chickens.
You have probably seen how excited your chickens get when you give them leftovers.There is a reason for - remains are like ice cream for chickens.
Just like children, chickens will fill the ice and more nutritious food, namely their food, ignore their own damage.
You cannot apply the pyramid for healthy foods to your chickens.
Most modern chicken foods are labeled as "complete" feeds of a soil.Desse feeds are actually complete: they give a chicken with all the vitamins, minerals and nutrients that it needs to thrive.
If you fill chickens residues, they do not eat their daily ration of food.If they do not eat enough of their food, their diet will not be "complete" because the Nutrient balance in the feed has been diluted by remains.
You can save money on chicken food if you eat birds a lot of leftovers, but it is a false economy.In the long term you lose on unhealthy, unproductive birds and less nutritious eggs.
Good remains and poor remains
Of course some leftovers are better for chickens than others.
Proteins are essential to produce nutritious eggs.
One of the biggest problems with residues is that they often have a low protein.This especially applies to what we often regard as "healthy" residues, such as fruit and vegetables.
Fruit and fruit packages usually contain few proteins and with high fibers the fiber fills, so that they do not eat as much food or as many proteins as they should.Fordi protein is so important to place chickens, this can cause real problems.
But leftovers and vegetables are better than really unhealthy leftovers, which can cause both obesity and lack.A Chook -residuver strengther, they can be a healthy addition to a chicken diet.
| Good residues for chickens (in moderation) | Bad residue for chicks |
| - Most fruit and vegetable tests (cooked or raw) - Korn - Cooked meat - Cooked fish or seafood - glances - Cooked beans - Eggs (make sure they are not recognizable, so that your dead do not learn to steal eggs from witch boxes) | - Food with fat, sugar or salt - processed foods - Raw potato - Avocado - Food that robes, rancid, rotten or spoiled - Chocolate - Coffee - Dried beans -Plants with high oxalates such as rhubarb leaves or unkoct warrigal -Greener (new -zealand spinach) |
Nutrition of residues on chickens - DOS and not
There are some simple rules that you can follow if you have to feed leftovers on your chickens.
| VAN | Must not |
| - Stay with healthy leftovers (see above) - feed residues once a day, ideally in the early afternoon - Only feed so many leftovers as your birds for 10-20 minutes -Palal unlimited access to a complete feed - Get unknown leftovers - Use one comes - Increase the protein content and power supply with a supplement | - feed your chicks bad leftovers (see above) - Feed a lot of leftovers or a very large amount of a certain type of scrap - Enter residues several times a day - throw residue on earth - Leave unskilled leftovers in Coop - Put your compost drawer in Coop - feed your chickens. If you live somewhere that it is illegal (check your local laws) |
Other ways to keep food waste out of the landfill
Nobody likes to waste food, so it is very satisfying to feed residues on chickens and see the waste converted into eggs.But there are other ways in which you can use your leftovers without jeopardizing the health of your chickens:
- Compost residues and make compost for your garden
- Place residue on a worm garden.This creates fertilizer for your garden and you can even feed some worms on your Chooks!
- Use leftovers to breed black soldier larvae, another healthy, high protein treatment that will love your chickens!
- Barden residue in the garden for composting in situ
Do you want to know more about what you should feed your chickens?
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Our chicken advice is based on more than 10 years of experience in keeping chickens and working with the chicken holders of the backyard.Contact us!
Happy Chicken Storage!
Rachael - Dine a Chook Australia
