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Some chickens will consume milk.
Most chickens never get it. As chickens are omnivores, they will eat just about everything. Milk as an additive or occasional amendment to daily feed, small amounts of dairy can and has been used with chicken feed. Poor digestion of lactose is a problem for poultry and can result in diarrhea and dehydration.
When lactose is converted to lactic acid (clabbered) it does not have the same effect and therefore farms with excess milk production can add yogurt/buttermilk to start the clabbering process and the resulting mixture can be offered to the hens. Care should be taken to observe the dairy fed hens the following 24 hours for loose fecal matter and a halt to the supplement immediately if so observed. There are few reasons non dairy operations should consider offering milk to their poultry stock as only 3% of the hens daily protein needs could be obtained by milk and milk products. Soy/grain protein products are much safer and far cheaper.
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∙ 14y agoNo. Chickens are birds, and not mammals; therefore, they do not produce milk.
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Do chickens produce milk in South America?
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No, chickens are not mammals. To be a mammal, a vertebrate must produce milk for its offspring. Chickens do not. Chickens are birds. They have feathers and reproduce by a hard shelled egg. A mammal is an animal that gives live birth (except for marsupials and monotremes), has hair on it's body and feeds its babies with milk.
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Yak milk and chickens.
Do chickens breasts have nipples?
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Do chickens produce milk?
yes! Well not all birds, some of them such as pigeons do. But it is sort of gross, its not like a calf sucking the milk out of its mother, the mother bird hacks up the milk into the babys' mouth.
What does rolling the milk mean?
when greavsey eats a chickens previously decitated head
Do you mix milk with oatmeal when feeding chickens?
You certainly don't have to, unless you are giving them a special treat. Chickens love cooked oatmeal just the way it is. They would love oatmeal mixed with milk, but as milk isn't really cheap, it's probably not something you would want to keep up.
How do chickens drink milk?
Their tongues can make a spade shape that helps keep the milk on their tongue then pull it back like a draw bridge then goes down their throat.(Important notice: Cats are lactose intolerant so when they have milk they feel sick so best to keep with water.)
Where can you get cheap milk?
My guess would be Walmart. Noone beats their prices. in scotland,farmfoods do the cheapest
Why did the early explorers carry chickens and goats on board there ships?
so that they would have fresh meat milk and eggs.
What is vegetarian biotin?
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