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Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« on: January 01, 2012, 01:29:32 am »
Chooks love prawn heads and shells, they go crazy for them.  We've had the happiest chooks in all the world since Xmas when we began giving them the scraps.
I had bacon and eggs for breakfast this morning and discovered that there is a downside to making the girls this happy.
Prawny eggs! :o :o
Not quite the flavour profile I was expecting.
Baking is going to take on a new and, er, more interesting aspect for a while, too!  ;) :D
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2012, 01:50:18 am »
That's amazing. When we had chooks next door we found they loved bacon rind and capsicum seeds but it didn't seem to affect the eggs.
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2012, 02:56:05 am »
It was quite unpleasant, actually.
And the real bummer is that we gave them another lot this morning, before we cooked the eggs.
I'll be checking the eggs very thoroughly before I use any for a while yet.
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2012, 11:49:56 am »
Try giving them some parsley to neutralise it ....

I'm too grossed out to suggest anything else ....

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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2012, 01:11:22 pm »
Thanks for that amanda.  I think I gave our chooks some prawn heads before we went away.  A friend has been collecting the eggs.  I had better get him to test the eggs.  A prawn sponge,  Not nice. ;D

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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2012, 01:23:19 pm »
Ewwww yes not very pleasant... Funny how that happened.....have never heard of that happening before...good to know though
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2012, 01:33:27 pm »
It's amazing what you learn on this forum.
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2012, 02:33:59 pm »
LMAO - sorry Amanda  :-[ We feed ours prawn heads and crayfish shells all the time (as they do love them like you say!!).

I am wondering though if it is overload as we give them a little bit at a time and freeze them up in lots to toss them when we think of it.

I wonder now what would happen to DH if we had the same thing as he is very allergic to shell fish  :o :o
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2012, 08:20:13 am »
When my brother was growing capsicums on a very large scale and the buyers decided that they weren't "perfect" enough  ??? to sell, we fed our chooks crates of red capi's. (after I had dried them, frozen them, baked them, given crates of them away, eaten them every which way bar upside down and there was a mutiny in the house when anyone mentioned the 'c' word!)
The egg yolks went rather red and was quite off putting, but I don't remember there being a funny taste.
Have not tasted "yabbie flavour" either when we have given the chooks the shells after we've had a feast. Maybe it is because we feed ours all sorts of food and they do have a very varied diet and have 5 acres to scratch around on.
Must check they don't spend too much time in the horse poop piles......

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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2012, 08:24:27 am »
 :D :D :D :D
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2012, 09:18:40 am »
 :D :D
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2012, 01:15:28 pm »
Oh dear, haven't heard that before! Maybe parsley as Nik has suggested might help.
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2012, 01:18:58 pm »
I wonder if you also fed them some greens in the mix (eg. parsley/mint is breath freshner and may work in other ways too??)
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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2012, 10:07:04 pm »
 ;D I don't plan on making it a habit of getting that close to either end of my chooks to find out if mint or parsley would work to make things "fresher".

Like judydawn said earlier - amazing what you learn on this forum! :)

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Re: Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!
« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2012, 02:32:30 am »
I'm wondering if it was just the number of shells.
We had 2 kg of prawns and have 13 chooks. That's quite a lot of prawns shells & the ladies were very greedy about them.
Really weird thing was that we gave them the skin off a whole hot smoked salmon, too, but they didn't touch it at all - we eventually threw it in the rubbish. I thought they'd love that as they love fish.  ???
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