[Carla]

The back door was open today and the chickens were wandering in and out of the kitchen as always when it dawned on me that the dogs food bowl was still on the floor...filled with CHICKEN dog food!!  The 3 ex-batts had eaten the lot  :blink: :blink:
They loved it..but I feel awful..chicken eating chicken couldnt be any more wrong, I know it wont hurt them, but I cant help feeling majorly creeped out!!! The girls could have been eating one of thier cage mates from the battery farm. Ooops 

[Caralou]

 

Dont worry too much, my girls run straight for the cat food bowl every time I forget to close the back door. I always know what I've done by the frantic peck-pecking noise at the bowl and 8 terrified cats running for cover 

[New shoot]

They would have noticed that and woofed the lot in about 2 seconds flat    and sneakily too if you didn't hear them   

They won't have known what is was Carla apart from yummy so I wouldn't worry 

[Kate and her Ducks]

Mine always go for the cat food too so I tend to try and make it fish flavoured fopr my sake!

[Carla]

They were stealth chickens    It was only because I remembered that they got caught! They hoovered it down, totally loved it..there was loads (I have a labrador!!) and they ate the lot. They had to drag their crops to bed    Still, chicken eating chicken..so wrong. Im only buying non-chicken dog food from now on if they're going to start sneaking in. Cheeky chooks

[AL Hathaway]

Giggle to funny LOL ROTFLMAO

[Lindeggs]

I was at the supermarket the other day and saw a big sign saying "chicken pet food".  I thought hooray - they must have started stocking chicken food!  How progressive of them!  So I rushed over to look.

My hubby laughed at the expression on my face when I realised they were selling pet food made of chickens, not pet food for chickens. 

[LittleRedHen]

My hens are little opportunists and will break for the cats' bowl in the kitchen at any chance they get.  It doesn't matter if it's chicken or tuna!  It's upsetting, but I sometimes wonder if it is just chicken flavouring on the same 'meat' or if it is actually chick.  Hhhhmmmm.

[Carla]

I know they use battery farm chickens that have reached the end of lay in pet food, baby food and cheap pies, pasties etc. I dont think there's much chicken meat in pet food...just tubes and stuff urgh :/  When I worked in a pet shop, we refused to sell a leading brand of dog food due to the fact they used animals that had been medically put to sleep, your pets would have been eating meat tainted with medicine, disease and whatever they use to put animals to sleep. We just felt it was wrong. The laws of what can go in pet food are very lax.
My chickens have stood by the back door ALL day today hahaha, think they're hoping I'll leave the door open for them to stuff their beaks

[Robster]

Yes it doesn't sound right does it.  It always amazes me and pleases me that they run across the coop to snatch up the slugs and snails.  Actually makes me think about that being tomorrows egg.  And that doesn't sound right either

[8doubles]

I was at the supermarket the other day and saw a big sign saying "chicken pet food".  I thought hooray - they must have started stocking chicken food!  How progressive of them!  So I rushed over to look.

My hubby laughed at the expression on my face when I realised they were selling pet food made of chickens, not pet food for chickens. 

I remember an uncle while in a petshop trying to sidestep the question " horses don`t eat meat do they dad" from his young daughter who was very much in love with ponies at the time.

[SamT]

Is it ok for chickens to eat cat/dog food?  I gatther these chooks have snuck in and eaten it but is it something you could knowingly give them or is it not recommended?

[LittleRedHen]

I believe that a little bit of protein is quite good for them.

[New shoot]

My chickens have stood by the back door ALL day today hahaha, think they're hoping I'll leave the door open for them to stuff their beaks

Ooooohhhhhhhhhhh yes - they will remember that treat and be watching that door like little vultures now 

They are very sneaky and quiet when they are up to no good.  Not as dumb as they look sometimes   

[bantam novice]

Far from it    Bird brains can be quite sharp