...I would wonder why those strains of milo would be included in poultry feeds because they can be identified.
These strains of milo are
NOT supposed to be in poultry feed.
Years ago one of my neighbors got what he thought was a good deal on grain sorghum seed. He harvested his crop and took off to the chicken feed mill with the first load. They refused to buy it. The inspection revealed it to be bird resistant milo. He spent 3 days driving from grain elevator to grain elevator before he found a buyer. I think it finally was used in hog feed.
How do stories like this about milo get into circulation?
My theory is that some well meaning city dweller reads about avian resistant milo in the local library. Then he or she with the help of little to nothing in the way of REAL knowledge about agriculture puts two and two together and comes up with 3.14 or pi. Therefore the conclusion is that milo is bad for chickens unless you stand there all day and force feed them Tums while they eat the milo.
At least that is my theory. You did see were I said that this is just a theory didn't you? Don't ask for scientific proof, I don't have any! Have a good day.
If you want to see another case of my theory in operation notice how many people on this forum feed their chickens meal worms, usually meal worms produced by unknown growers. If you wanted to grow millions and millions of meal worms for the pet food trade there is no better place for you to grow your meal worms than in the litter below the poop cake of old abandoned commercial chicken houses. The only other thing you would need is a shaker table and screening devise to separate the meal worms from the chicken litter so that you can return your brood beetles to the used chicken litter so they can begin another crop of meal worms, and then my friend you are in the meal worm business big time.
The complete list of chicken diseases transmitted by meal worms or the parent beetle is daunting. The list of worm eggs that meal worms or their parents can pass on to chickens is equally impressive. So remember that those meal worms you buy may have marinated their whole lives in a virtual ocean of chicken germs and parasites.
WWW.aces.edu/darkling beetle
Howdy; Has anyone found problems with feeding milo grain in the feed??? and thanx At present I am mixing red wheat corn and milo. In an article about chick feed there was mention not to feed milo grain. WHY NOT????
