Re: Guava for Chicken?

Ranee Mueller wrote:
Is it alright to give them the peelings from guavas? Are there any fruit/vegetables that are poisonous or bad for them? I know not to give them onions or peppers when they are laying because of how it affects the flavor of the eggs, but will it hurt them if I give them the peelings from guava? Thank you.


Mine get bags of stuff from a cafe kitchen. They don't like the bread much so I pick the larger bits of it out - rolls etc - and give it to the sparrows, starlings and wax-eyes who frequent the bird feeder*. Otherwise the whole lot gets tipped into the deep-litter pen and what they don't eat turns into litter. They don't eat what they don't like - I've noticed pepper and onions don't get touched - but I suppose if they weren't fed enough they might be desperate enough to eat stuff that is not good for them. Animals seem to be smarter than people about avoiding things that aren't good for them! Not 100% smart and I suppose there's always an idiot....


*The current bird feeder is an inelegant bag made of an offcut of old hexagonal chicken netting, you know the one, small holes. Bent in half and the raw edges twisted into each other to make an open-top bag with the selvages at the original top and bottom edges forming a nice non-snag fairly rigid "mouth". An old coat-hanger (because it was there) is the final piece of elegant design that enables it to be hung from a branch. The cafe scraps arrive once or twice a week so there's suddenly a big bagful for the birds and it is empty by the time the next lot arrives. I put a small scrap of plastic netting in the top to prevent the rude starlings from getting right in and making pigs of themselves.

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