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Chocolate is potentially toxic to chickens, as it is in many other animals. Butter and cheese are too fatty for chickens to eat regularly, as are fried foods like chips.
The primary source of toxicity for many species of Crotalaria is the presence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which are poisonous to birds and large mammals. Crotalaria retusa seeds are some of the most toxic of Crotalaria species. [9] Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in honey are a threat to human health. [10]
Chickens feeding on grain. Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds.. Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm.
An "incident" of chemical food contamination may be defined as an episodic occurrence of adverse health effects in humans (or animals that might be consumed by humans) following high exposure to particular chemicals, or instances where episodically high concentrations of chemical hazards were detected in the food chain and traced back to a particular event.
Modern breeding of chickens is selective toward "fat thighs and large breast muscles," BBC Wildlife Magazine reports. These traits add extra weight to the bird, making it harder to fly.
Ergotism, which occurs when poultry feed is contaminated with toxic alkaloids produced by fungi of the genus Claviceps [11] Aspergillosis , a non-contagious disease caused when birds inhale Aspergillus spores that cause breathing to be hard for the bird [ 12 ]
"Foods like fatty or salted meats, gravy, and anything sugary or chocolate-based are harmful to birds," adds Richard. "In addition to this, "too much salt can cause dehydration, and sugar can ...
Caged birds seem to be more sensitive to the effects of persin, whereas, for example, turkeys and chickens seem more resistant. [7] Lactating rabbits and mice: non-infectious mastitis and agalactia after consumption of leaves or bark. Rabbits: cardiac arrhythmia, submandibular edema and death after consumption of leaves.