Author Topic: Lamb eating chicken food and corn (Read 21232 times)

jaykay · « **Reply #30 on:** May 16, 2012, 02:39:12 pm »

I wonder if the vitamin levels are the issue. Vitamin A and vitamin D3. Are they problems for certain animals?
I think D3 can be for dogs - some vague memory........?

fleurky · « **Reply #31 on:** May 16, 2012, 02:53:06 pm »

I did a google - found this - no answers though.

Our chickens are fenced in a largish area with a flexible mesh fence. Yesterday afternoon, I discovered one of the dogs (a black lab who eats everything) in the fenced area.
He had polished off half of an Omlet "peanut" feeder of layers pellets.
He was bloated and unhappy.
So far he has been sick three times, and had extremely pungent copious diarrhoea five times.
Thank goodness we have tiled floors and no carpets.
I have no idea what is in layers pellets, but it disagrees badly with labradors.
We are starving him until this afternoon and then he'll be on boiled rice and yogurt for 24 hours to attempt to soothe and recolonise his gut.

Ewww.

nic99 · « **Reply #32 on:** May 16, 2012, 03:16:32 pm »

My puppy got in to the feed shed one day and ate loads of farmgate layers pellets. We found her with her head in the bag, literally wolfing them down. No idea how much she managed to eat but my guess is a lot! She had no adverse reaction but the next day did several ENORMOUS foul smelling poos (inc. 2 on the carpet

). You wouldn't have thought that much poo could fit inside a dog! It was disgusting but pretty incredible.

Bramblecot · « **Reply #33 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:04:50 pm »

Quote from: fleurky on May 16, 2012, 02:53:06 pm

Yesterday afternoon, I discovered one of the dogs (a black lab who eats everything) in the fenced area.
He had polished off half of an Omlet "peanut" feeder of layers pellets.
He was bloated and unhappy.
So far he has been sick three times, and had extremely pungent copious diarrhoea five times.
Thank goodness we have tiled floors and no carpets.

Ewww.

Ah ha! The black lab dustbin syndrome

. My black lab has started laying eggs, do you thnk this could be a side effect?

Penninehillbilly · « **Reply #34 on:** May 17, 2012, 05:16:17 pm »

I know this isn't related to the 'Farmgate' line, but came across an old (empty!) sack which says - 'contains fishmeal - not to be fed to ruminants'.

Farmgate - I wonder what the 'digestabilty enhancers' and the 'ezymes' are?

I think they are being evasive, you asked 'what', not 'where'.