Warning - don't feed your chooks prawn heads!

[Amanda]

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!
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! 

[cookie1]

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.

[Amanda]

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.

[Nik2WIN]

Try giving them some parsley to neutralise it ....

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

Nik xx

[achookwoman]

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.

[Frozzie]

Ewwww yes not very pleasant... Funny how that happened.....have never heard of that happening before...good to know though

[judydawn]

It's amazing what you learn on this forum.

[faffa_70]

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 

[Nikkit]

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......

[judydawn]

 

[Frozzie]

 

[meganjane]

Oh dear, haven't heard that before! Maybe parsley as Nik has suggested might help.

[CreamPuff63]

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??)

[Nikkit]

  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!

[Amanda]

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.