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If I were feeding vegan I would ferment the feed, as that makes the protein more available and easy to digest. You'll find lots of info on that here on BYC.

Is diatomacous earth considered vegan? Its made from fossils. It is included in some feed recipes.

I really doubt the feed is vegan. It's like assuming food is organic just because you don't see chemicals, or gluten-free just because you don't see wheat listed in the ingredients. It's a bad and dangerous assumption to make. Businesses do things the easiest, most profitable way possible. If...

You know I was thinking... "Vegan" is a good marketing point and people will pay extra for it, so why is this organic feed that is only plants not calling themselves that? And then I realized, because they use bone meal and blood, etc. to fertilize the crops in the feed. I am afraid this...

Maybe it worked for you but egg-eating is almost always a nightmare and many people have had to cull hens that turned violent over it. Also I just don't think its right for them to eat their eggs like that. It's like feeding them their own chicks, just not right. I don't think its good for their...

The only thing with feeding them their own eggs is you would need to scramble them first. Otherwise if a hen goes broody the others will attack her for it and you would have a bloody mess. Encouraging them to eat their own raw eggs is not good- would you encourage them to eat their own chicks...

The chickens will suffer on a vegan diet. Actually, its impossible. They will eat insects, each others feathers, and their own eggs. Free-range chickens will eat rodents, baby birds, lizards, snakes and other animals. You could buy or mix your own mostly vegetarian diet, but not a vegan one.