Arizona Chickens

[southerndesert]

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Females go to be raised as layers and the males in many cases are destroyed as broilers and fryers they are not.... Not sure where both shoots go, but me guesses the male shoot goes to a not so happy place....

I am sorry folks - I did not understand

Are we perpetuating this by ordering only pullets form a hatchery?

Yes to some degree depending on hatchery....

 

[pastrymama]

Mikey is trying to blow my cover on the vpa. Silly, like I am going to use my real name!

So what's the deal with removing the soy and replacing it with boss tracey? Soy is not all that great for you so I guess I don't understand.

And mikey, I think my hens would eat me, so I would not worry too much about it being mash.

 

[Tracydr]

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Everything I can find on using BOSS for protein is that they are about 15%. I think that is whole BOSS with the shell. Maybe without the shell and with the oil extracted the leftover seed is much higher in protein and is used as a high protein meal, IDK? I believe it's a pretty good quality protein but haven't seen any studies good or bad, I'll need to look.
Soy, the big buzz is that it's estrogenic so people are concerned about the effect on eating eggs and meat from chickens fed high amounts of soy, that it may have high estrogen levels. Also, there is so much GMO soy that many are concerned that the organic feed may be contaminated with GMO soy because the pollen can travel to distant fields.
I think that's a bigger concern with canola and corn than soy, realistically, just because of the way canola and corn pollen travels. The corn and canola pollen is designed to travel by wind. The soybean is designed to actually be self-pollinating and rarely crosses, except with beans fairly closely planted.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

My hens don't have a problem with mash either.

 

[Mahonri]

The reason why you should keep and hatch as many of your own eggs as possible.

Here is my old roo Geoffrey's son, owned by WhiteMountainsRanch in San Diego.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Wow! He is beautiful!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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There is some soup in an asain country that they break open almost full formed ducks in the soup!!! There is no way I could eat that.

Mike- I am glad that there is one thing that you can't do perfect (proccessing), Everything else is a A+. I am just proud of you for trying!

balut--didn't know they made a soup, too.

 

[turkeybreeder]

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that rooster is really nice

 

[Fuzzybird]

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EWWWWW! YUCKY!!!!

I hope and pray I never see an egg like that in my frying pan.

So would it essentially just make it impossible for the chick to grow by stealing nutrients from the yolk, or by infecting the chick? I'm sure the answer is really obvious and I'm totally just being silly.

That would be correct and even if the chick did begin to develop the embryo would have to compete with the worm to grow and I would think both would die in the process...

That would put me off eggs for a very long time!

 

[Mikey D]

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Not trying to reveal secrete identity - I'm just slow enough to not realize it was you...