CHOOKIPEDIA

Q Can I feed my chooks teabags?

Shirley Carmichael, Bundaberg, Queensland.

There really isn’t any nutritional value in spent tea leaves for your chooks. The bags, tag and quite often metal staple wouldn’t do them any good either. If anything, I think the tea leaves could get caught up in the chicken’s crop, which then could make them crop bound. This would then hinder their capacity