Is Vinyl Toxic To Chickens

The flooring is easy to clean which is essential in a chicken coop.

Is vinyl toxic to chickens.

Shop for vinyl cds and more from toxic chicken at the discogs marketplace. Uncooked raw or dried beans contain hemaglutin which is poisonous to chickens. When cleaning any area of your chicken coop keep in mind you will need to use some form of liquid to help remove any unwanted substances. Vinyl is toxic for your chickens.

Explore releases from toxic chicken at discogs. The chickens also found it very slippery if they managed to scratch down under the litter layer. Real linoleum is a natural safe product with antibacterial properties but i m 99 sure that what you are using is vinyl. Having said that chickens have been trawling through orchards for years and few have died from eating apple seeds.

The large rolls of linoleum or vinyl are better than the tiles. As gail damerow says in her bestselling book the chicken health handbook. Don t give chickens any edible containing salt sugar coffee or liquor. For that reason i went with removable low emissions mats.

I d be concerned that the vinyl might be harmful for the chickens. I have two hens that ate all of my rhubarb leaves last year. They are still alive but i m not sure what the long term effects may be. Raw green potato skins contain solanine which is poisonous to chickens.

Then today we heard a comment about vinyl flooring letting off toxic fumes and you can t claim your eggs are organic i certainly wouldn t buy eggs from anyone with vinyl flooring we feed only organic and the chickens free range all day. Onions are a poor food to give to chickens because onions flavor eggs. Rhubarb leaves are also toxic to chickens. In the past i used scraps of vinyl flooring to protect this wood section of the coop floor but i found it was very difficult to deep clean the stapled in vinyl without it starting to rip and shred.

Stapling them down may be a better choice than gluing them as some glue is toxic for chickens see below. The liquid rubber waterproof sealant is an environmentally friendly non toxic water based coating that contains no solvents or voc s making it ideal product to use in your chicken coop. It is made up of multiple layers which helps make it a durable flooring option.