Birds and BBs?

[Rapture]

Who said it was solid?

[ogrejager]

Who said it was solid?

TMI.

While I don't really think it matters, the property owners are primarily worried about wild birds--pheasant, quail, turkey, waterfowl, and doves.

DJ--yeah, I know about lead, but that was different. The waterfowl were incidentally ingesting the pellets that were with their food--they weren't eating the pellets on purpose.

I think I'm going to have to arrange a "test"--take some of the bird food and some pellets mixed together and see if they eat them.

[Rapture]

All ok today, the bb's don't really digest... they just pass.

[Diegunner]

My buddy has shot turkeys with pellets in their crop. It seemed they were replacing gravel with bbs. So I don’t think that it really hurts turkeys. Waterfowl and upland is a little different. I haven’t seen any bbs in their crops.

[Osprey]

The chickens will be fine the bbs will just pass thru. As long as there is food they will leave the BB's alone. If I was him I wouldn't worry about it. We shoot all the time in the woods, and there still wild bird life where we play.

[Kitfox]

As I said that I would post any reply to my question at Poultry forums, Here is what I got (although It is just one reply and I would take it with a grain of salt, as I do not know the source, they said: Re: Effects of Ingesting Airsoft pellets??

Unread postby chrismahon » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:16 pm
Potentially a big problem Kitfox. They can swallow then as grit and they could block the gizzard. As they are insoluble and ungrindable they will collect causing a blockage it and will be terminal. Vet told me the common cause for impacted gizzard is bits of plastic or metal. In our case it was damson stones and after a month of nursing they managed to shift them.