RE: Day 2 of self-isolation on the homestead: food security and reuse
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Do you regularly feed animal protein to your birds, or is it just as it is available?
My husband is an avid deepsea fisherman, and we feed pollock to our flock for animal protein, because while he loves to catch it, we don't like the flavor.
But should he not be able to go fishing, using road kill or varmints is an alternative.
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I feed animal protein all the time to my chickens. For example I regularly mix fat drippings into their feed. They love fish. I have heard anecdotally if you give them all fish the egg flavor will suffer but I don't know. Nice to see you are still actively posting and your farm and renovations are going strong.
The fish flavor is true. One should not exceed 10% by weight of a bird's daily ration, or eggs will taste fishy. Every now and again we get one that does, as someone gets a chance to be a bogart.
Fat is very different than protein, and I've had trouble, especially in winter, if they get too much. It will give them diarrhea, not good in winter!
So they get the fish or very lean meat every day in a measured amount, and the fat is reserved sparingly for winter when they need extra energy.
Not to get too much into chicken poop, but I have noticed that when I give my chickens more animal meat they get firmer poop. I guess that would the protein right? And do you think that is ok?