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northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Fife
    • North Fife Blog
feeding apples?
« 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?? :&>

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: feeding apples?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2010, 09:48:27 am »
Mine used to help themselves to windfalls and I never noticed a problem.

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: feeding apples?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2010, 10:01:41 pm »

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

andy harris

  • Joined May 2010
Re: feeding apples?
« Reply #3 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

Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: feeding apples?
« Reply #4 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.
Anne

shetlandpaul

  • Joined Oct 2008
Re: feeding apples?
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2010, 07:43:00 am »
if like our first pigs too many apples tend to do the opposite

 

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