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Quote: Perhaps this was the wrong thread to bring it up in, but the corn topic is one of the first things that came to my mind about old wives' tales. What I don't care for on this board is everytime there is a disagreement to the facts that people want to characterize an otherwise civil...

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Quote: No, we're not talk about making the animals fat, thus hotter in the summer. Since animals reduce feed intake as it gets hotter, it's better to feed them a high calorie ration so they can maintain on the little that they are eating. I didn't have a specific source in mind when...

Quote: yeah... i mean, it's a question of calories, really, not corn specifically. it just so happens that corn is absolutely busting with calories. that's especially important for a bird, as they have higher metabolic rates than mammals. To say that it's the calories is too simple an...

Quote: All feed produces heat when digested and metabolized, the 8 BTU figure means nothing to me without a comparison to other feeds. I don't know whether that is high or low... There are two sources of heat at work here, heat produced in the large intestine by fermentation of fibrous feeds...

I've heard all kinds from visitors at my home. The most frequent is that you need a rooster around to have eggs. I had one fellow ask me what I did to the eggs to make them edible, he thought they had to be boiled or pasteurized or somehow processed to make them into a table egg. I gave...