Praise be to Allaah.
With regard to feeding chickens or other
animals that may be eaten with impure substances (najasah) such as blood
and the like, if it is a small amount, that does not matter and it does
not make them haraam or make them jallaalah (animals that feed on filth
and dung); rather the jallaalah should be detained until it becomes pure
and clean, if most of its food is impure (najis).
But if only a small amount of the animal’s
food is impure (najis), then it does not have any impact and it does not
make the animal haraam, so long as the ratio is 20% or 30% and so on. This
does not matter. Rather what makes it haraam is if the ratio is more than
that - 60% or 70%. If this is the ration, then the animal is regarded as
jallaalah, so it should be detained so that it can be given good and pure
food and water. If it has been detained for a suitable number of days, then
it becomes pure and is halaal. This applies if the impure material is the
majority of what it eats. The time for detaining animals varies. Chickens
should be detained for three days, and that is enough for them to be fed
good food and good water. Other animals, such as sheep, cattle and the like
should be detained for longer than that, such as seven days or more, so that
they can be given good food and water, and their flesh becomes good (halaal)
after that. We have asked many of those who have knowledge of this matter,
and they said that what is fed to chickens of dried blood is a small amount
in comparison to other, pure food. End quote.
Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him).