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cottagechick, In some ways you are very correct, very correct. Many of do not consider how vulnerable the supply of high productivity seed stock. People in marginal / economically strapped parts of world realize such seeds can be prohibitively expensive and they can not purchase them when...

welasharon, I am trying to do similar (although with grains) with my free-ranging dominique flock while staying away from using a complete commercial diet. During the growing season my pastures do provide abundance of some nutrients but are inadequate with others. During spring months protein...

Quote: No, Mash type has been around for quit sometime and before we penned chickens. A good percentage of today's chickens parent stock were feed a mash type feed when they were being bred/created. A truly free ranging chick needs a good bit of good land to survive healthily with out mans...

Quote: Nearly all chickens we have to day differ greatly from there junglefowl ancestor not just in looks but also in the ability to possess food. The chickens and the junglefowl may have no discernible difference between the digestive systems but that does not mean they have the ability to...

Quote: No requirement / need for gross physical differences between gut and intestinal tracts of domestic and nominal wild jungle fowl taxa. Significant differences can still exist in respect to abilitiy of handling a range of feed types. The domestication process is likely at least as...

Quote: The junglefowl isn't a chicken it is a Pheasant (Family Phasianidae) Quote: Chickens is said to be bred from Red but I believe there is also some Grey and Green Junglefowl in there also. Chickens are also related to the Bekisar, Ceylon Junglefowl, and the Pheasant but the chicken...