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[Hilary B]

Lettuce contains a soporific (it is used as an ingredient of herbal sleeping tablets), and it may be that this is bad for poultry in excess. Spinach does contain SOME oxalic acid (so does the bit of rhubarb we eat, but the concentration in the leaves is the dangerous version), and 'chard' may also contain some.

[di]

So me giving the chooks spinach & chard because I wanted to cut down on their lettuce intake wasn't such a great idea?!
Never mind they seem to have a pile of holy cabbages waiting for them from a kindly neighbour!!...& once they're done we got a few of our own!

[Starchild]

I dunno about Holland, but in the UK it is actually illegal to feed chickens kitchen scraps.
(cross-meat contamination blah-de-blah-de-blah)

[MaureenHall]

I dunno about Holland, but in the UK it is actually illegal to feed chickens kitchen scraps.
(cross-meat contamination blah-de-blah-de-blah)

Yes, apparently it is illegal, so as I said on a previous thread, I now cook pasta for the chooks and have the excess with my bol sauce, likewise, I cook potatoes for the chooks and pinch a bit to go on my cottage pie.

[Starchild]

Aah Maureen I assume that the kitchen in which the food is prepped is done to HACPP food safety standard?

"...providing premises are able to demonstrate that they have HACCP procedures (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) in place to ensure that there is no possibility of the material intended to be fed to livestock being contaminated by meat or most other products of animal origin... operators are advised to ensure that their local authority is content that their separation procedures are adequate"

So Maureen, have you been inspected?

[MaureenHall]

"So Maureen, have you been inspected?"

Well I had a good look in the mirror this morning and inspected myself to make sure it was me and that I wasn't looking like a scary monster

[Starchild]

"So Maureen, have you been inspected?"

Well I had a good look in the mirror this morning and inspected myself to make sure it was me and that I wasn't looking like a scary monster

Aaah well that's ok then.

[Flummery]

I was looking like a scary monster this morning - I totally forgot to brush my hair (not that it looks 'done' when I have!) Is this the beginning of the end? I'll be asking my husband who he is when he gets home.

[Jardiniere]

surely the feeding of kitchen scraps is only if you are going to sell the eggs or the chickens for meat...cant you do what you like in your own garden?
I'm going to cut down on the amount of lettuce and chard that i give my hens - the chard is almost finished as are the bolted lettuce. New salad stuff coming up but we weill eat that ...lettuce contains a soporific.......had some for tea zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[tony warner]

i have just fed mine with celery leaves

[Snadger]

i have just fed mine with celery leaves

Well all you need are some walnuts and the lettuce that the chooks can't eat and you can make yourself a nice eggy waldorf salad!