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  • From: Debbie McDonald <lbirke1@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Chicken feed
  • Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:45:40 -0700 (PDT)

I'm No kind of chicken expert and realize the each species is different. I do remember though reading that what you feed the animals you eat will reflect in your health and soy is an endocrine disruptor(takes up the receptor sites where thyroid should go) in humans etc etc and almost all soy is GMO now. I have a friend new to chickens and she feeds organic soy and does not have very good egg production in birds that should be great egg layers and they live in stellar conditions otherwise with outside priviledges on pristine grass, organic farm for years and years?? What do you think about the above issues, if they are issues at all?  Deb


From: "TheStarNav@aol.com" <TheStarNav@aol.com>
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 11:37:37 AM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Chicken feed

Hi Mitch...
 
chickenfeed.  Well, chickens are just somewhat modified velociraptors.  However, they are somewhat constrained velociraptors! they are voracious omnivores. Means, we have to read labels.  Purina is a rather suspect maker of foods etc., even though they have a huge presence.
 
And, if other stuff doesn't eat what you or chickens eat, probably not such a good thing.  Basically, for a daily feed, (we have egg chickens, not meat) some brand with the highest level of protein needs to be used.  Modified Velociraptors  need lots of protein; lots of calcium and vitamins.  If  you need it, they do too.  I talked a lot with our local poultry rep from Michigan State extention.  I learned about selecting the highest protein food.  I learned too that that is not enough, and to supplement with soybean meal...approximately 1/2 c per bird per day.  now who knows how much each bird gets....so what we've done is put out several piles of soybean meal with calcium - oyster shell.  Each pile is probably a pint.  It's always gone the next day, so somebody is eating it!  
 
High protein dry catfood was recommended as well, but that gets very expensive very fast, and isn't as good overall as the soybean meal.
 
Also, table scraps.  Any and all.  They are composting machines. They haven't moral scruples.  I buy a small baked chicken  at the store for my use, (husband hates chickenmeat) for soup, and this goes on down to the dogs and cats. 
Then, the boiled chicken skeleton with a tiny bit of meat left on it is broken up for the chickens.  Every Little Bit is gone.  They do good work on other kinds of meats and bones as well. 
 
Michele
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
From: emitch@att.net
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Sent: 10/13/2010 10:18:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: [Livingontheland] Chicken Feed
 

> I noticed that birds and bugs have not eaten spilled Purina chicken feed. Reckon that means something? Like, should I be feeding them something that wild varmints would eat (;-(

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.net





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