Livestock Can Chickens eat leftover stock/broth bones?

[phloydius]

Here is a question on how to best get the maximum use out of our efforts...

I cook my own broth/stock in a crock pot. I would like to find a good use for the left over bones, meat, and veggies that are left over after making the broth/stock. General suggestions online all say to discard it because it has no "value" left. But I'd like to see if there is some value we can find for it.

My first idea was to simply compost it, but have real concerns about attracting meat eating pests to my compost bin. Also, in general, my chickens have full free access to my compost bins. The other idea I had was feeding all or some of the left overs to the chickens. They may not like the onions (which I could easily toss into the compost bin, but am curious on everyone's thoughts on the value/safety of letting the birds having access to it, specifically the meat and bones.

The broths I make most often are ham, beef, and porks.

Thoughts?

 

[moldy]

Anything with meat usually goes to the dogs or cats. I just don't like feeding like species to like species. When we had hogs, I would feed them leftover chicken or beef bones, but not pork. Chickens will eat meat (I'd love it if they would eat the mice in their coop), but feeding them chicken or turkey just.... no, ick. I think (and I could be incorrect), that is how some disease is spread - by feeding back throw away stuff back to the same species.

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

Nothing like watching a chicken hork down a mouse. Everyone else will be chasing her, trying to get it for themselves. Then she will run around till she can get that tail down, everyone still chasing her.

 

[moldy]

....or June bugs. Some of my favorite entertainment.