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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on October 11, 2010, 08:51:44 am

Title: feeding apples?
Post by: northfifeduckling on October 11, 2010, 08:51:44 am

I have always given cut up apple peels and cores to the ducks and chooks - now someone said it gives them constipation - is this true?? :&>

Title: Re: feeding apples?
Post by: Rosemary on October 11, 2010, 09:48:27 am

Mine used to help themselves to windfalls and I never noticed a problem.

Title: Re: feeding apples?
Post by: Daisys Mum on October 11, 2010, 10:01:41 pm

Mine love to get apples and I have never noticed any problem either.

Title: Re: feeding apples?
Post by: andy harris on October 12, 2010, 06:55:39 am

Same here we have a apple tree in the garden and my girls are always eating them....if anything i would think it would make there poo watery

Title: Re: feeding apples?
Post by: Daisys Mum on October 12, 2010, 07:40:13 am

I do hope that it is ok as I have planted 6 apple trees in the hen run, figured they were the least likely to destroy them before they had a chance to grow.

Title: Re: feeding apples?
Post by: shetlandpaul on October 12, 2010, 07:43:00 am

if like our first pigs too many apples tend to do the opposite