[northfifeduckling]

I have a quite a bit of surplus pork fat from rendering - is it a good idea to feed it to the birds as I won't have any other use for it? I would give it bit by bit with other feed, veg scraps, etc.

[daddymatty82]

if you fed it to chooks surley you wont be able to sell the meat or eggs from them?

[northfifeduckling]

as I'm not selling to the public my main concern is if it's ok for the birds. They eat mice and worms after all which are not even cooked 

[sabrina]

Not sure but I think you are breaking the rules here, I did cook and dry some off for my dogs as chews but feeding to hens I have a feeling is a no no.

[shrekfeet]

do you mean fat like you'd find in thge bottome of the grill pan after cookingf bacon?
Of so why not mix corn into it and pour it into plastic tubs to make cakes. Then hang one up now and again for the birds to peck at

[northfifeduckling]

it would be plain pork fat I have slow-heated in a pan to render the lard, it came from a unsmoked and unsalted piece of pork. Good idea, shrekfeet! I know the blackbirds go for anything meaty 

[daddymatty82]

i read somewhere your allowed to feed meat to chooks aslong as they or the eggs are not sold so aslong as you say arnt doing that then i would. they would love it on a winters day to keep warm lol

[northfifeduckling]

i read somewhere your allowed to feed meat to chooks aslong as they or the eggs are not sold so aslong as you say arnt doing that then i would.

is that the rule you were thinking of, Sabrina? 

[Anke]

Well I wouldn't tell AH or TS I was doing that, if I were.

Rendered porkfat (Schmalz in German) is actually really nice for humans (and still legal I think?), on fresh bread. Also fantastic to slowcook red or white cabbage in, using loads of red/white wine, vinegar, sugar and spices. Traditional Xmas dinner food that is! In Germany it was traditionally used for anything that needed frying.

I use the rendered fat from my mutton for wild bird feeders, and also to make soap.

[daddymatty82]

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/archive/index.php/t-318980.html
just googled it and this came up.
imo i would feed them anything and everything  in moderation of course as i would mix it in like you have said but now i read that topic im going to feed it all to my chooks and my dog will get what they leave or vice vercer its one of them things if i could eat it i would so if they could eat it they would

[shetlandpaul]

as they will eat anything including decomposing bodies im sure they will love it maybe mince it and mix it with a bit of corn. wether its legal i don't know but just feed it to the wild birds near your chickens. but not saying anything would be wise.

[northfifeduckling]

Thanks for doing the research, matty 

Anke - what's AH or TS? I know what OH means, lol

 

[manian]

AH animal health
TS trading standards
 

[daddymatty82]

Thanks for doing the research, matty 

 no probs at all  i was looking into it few mths back so i cannot find what i wanted to paste but it was just you could feed them meat  but by law was unable to sell chickens for meat or any of there by products such as eggs and cakes and such like so  it was all  good in that repect