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Okay guys I was sold this chick as a blue laced red wyandotte. After looking at some pictures I'm wondering if this is actually an australorp??
It's about 2 weeks old here.


This is the first day they were brought home.
 
DesertChic said:
No corn ? corn is like crack to a chicken !
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I've spent over twenty years studying (human) nutrition. We essentially gave up eating corn several years ago and only consume maybe half a dozen times per year. I know chickens love the stuff, but even the old agricultural studies from the early 1900s show that corn does more harm than good overall. I know that like all things, "moderation is the key", but as much I LOVE the taste of corn, I just won't eat it and I won't feed it to my chickens. It's just a personal choice.
I have never heard of not giving corn to chickens ..I thought corn was the base of most chicken diets ./ feeds
What Ag Study ? was this for humans or chickens
MrsBrooke said:
Yes. To all of this.Corn is a grain and produces anti-nutrients in the digestive system.
So does wheat (in the human system).
Do. Not. Want.
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anti-nutrients?
 
I think you got what you ordered. In any case...it's not an Australorp...IMVeryHO.
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Gramma Chick said:
I have never heard of not giving corn to chickens ..I thought corn was the base of most chicken diets ./ feeds
What Ag Study ? was this for humans or chickens
anti-nutrients?
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Corn actually became the basis for chicken diets once the entire poultry industry started to become industrialized because 1) it's cheap to grow in this country, 2) it's high in calories and lysine, and 3) it fattens up the birds. If you read the old poultry husbandry books written back in the early 1900s, various universities like Cornell University and several others did extensive nutritional studies focusing on feeding what had been the traditional grains up until that time and comparing them to corn. The two grains that the studies showed should never be fed in abundance were corn and oats. They also conducted extensive studies on in the inclusion of animal proteins, especially organ meats, and strongly recommended the inclusion of such sources of protein for healthy chickens. That's pretty much how people had been raising chickens on their individual farms up until the industrialization. Then, with the need for mass production, everything changed. Eventually the Cornish Cross was created with the focus on feeding corn-based diets to make them huge and meaty as quickly as possible, long before the negative effects of a corn-based diet would be seen.

And yes, Mrs B is right...corn is an "anti-nutrient" in that it actually robs your body of nutrients while triggering inflammation throughout your body. Have you ever noticed that corn "comes out" of your body looking pretty much the same as it went in? That's because the human body can't actually digest corn. Anthropologists have known this for decades, but dietitians and the medical community have been slower to pick up on it and advertise it because corn is big business in this country. And don't even get me started on Monsanto...

The best book I've found for researching feed for chickens is "Poultry Husbandry" by Morley A. Jull, copyright 1930. Although its info on incubators is outdated, this book contains an overwhelming abundance of invaluable information, from genetics to breeding to all sorts of things about management.
 

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