Is there anything I should not give my chickens for dinner/

I keep 30 hens free range. One member commented that advocardo is poisonous to hens. Very occasionally I give my girls an over ripe advocardo. I cut in half just like you would for a human and they eat the flesh completely and leave the skin intact without a trace of the flesh left with the stone next to it, again completely clean. I've seen no ill effects.

mine loooovvvve mealworms as a treat. Its really comical when they all come running when I call them, its a great way of getting them back in the run if I need to go out.

I use that trick to get my girls back in as well.  1 rattle of the meal worm tub and they come pelting back 

I'd chuck that in the compost stujem.  Even if it's OK to eat it will have little nutrional value by now.

I might be completley wrong, I am not at all sure about this but I thought that you should not feed raw eggs to chickens because they carry very small amounts of salmonella in them. If your hen eats them the salmonella accumulates and eventually you end up with unsafe levels.

I don't think hens like really big slugs as they secrete loads of gue but they do eat slug eggs and small slugs. I have had hardly any slug damage this year, the second year of having hens free range in my garden - mind you a hard winter and dry summer probably didn't help the slugs either.

Bev

Its interesting how attitudes change, when we first looked into getting chickens we did  the usual research online, books etc and came up with this long list of what not to feed chickens. I showed this to my father inlaw who used to have chickens as a kid, i think he grew up in rural australia where everyone had a few and he almost had a fit with laughter at what your not supposed to feed them!!! Basicaly he said anything and everything left over went to the chickens.