Can you feed broilers with broiler meat.

[johnscalido]

Also Arber Acres.

 

[johnscalido]

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So you agree that this is "NORMAL" in the industry. An unwanted chick is not the same thing as the grown adult. I see your concern that disease could be transferred from bird to bird. However are there any other side-effects.

 

[CoopCrazy]

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So you agree that this is "NORMAL" in the industry. An unwanted chick is not the same thing as the grown adult. I see your concern that disease could be transferred from bird to bird. However are there any other side-effects.

Im confused about what you mean by side effects? I havent had a bird go cannabalistic from eating poultry before (and my girls get all our leftovers), I havent noticed higher agression or higher likely hood to sickness... My layers get a hold of the occasional raw tidbits when I slaughter and they are all happy and healthy as horses... Honestly if the man is getting a really good price for broilers it is probably much cheaper then buying feed.. NOw if he is feeding birds that have just died(death unknown) versus ones he slaughtered then thats a different story and is EXTREMELY dangerous.. I have cooked and fed back a broiler that was killed by a predator as the bird was warm , buit if I had just found one of my birds dead there is no way I would eat it or feed it to my animals.... Way too much risk

 

[johnscalido]

Understood. Thanks for your input.

 

[CoopCrazy]

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[johnscalido]

I must admit this makes things very interesting. I thought that this type of feeding was against some regulations. I have visited a few websites and I must admit that no-where is there any information that is against this type of feeding. In fact I was highly surprised to find that it is actually practiced by poultry professionals. In fact all the waste parts of the broiler such as the intestines and etc. are are dumped into the feed,

 

[CoopCrazy]

That is what "Chicken By-Products" can mean......

 

[TimG]

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Something doesn't add up. If he uses only his broilers to feed his broilers the circle will break down at some point because he won't have enough to feed his broilers. There's got to be some outside source of food.

I think it is common to feed animal byproducts to animals. Our societal emotions may lead us to believe it is wrong for chickens to eat chicken meat, but from a nutritional standpoint it shouldn't matter. This is not to say that a chicken fed exclusively chicken meat would be a healthy bird, I imagine there are needed nutrients that would not be found in this diet.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

What Tim said is right, it is merely emotions calling it wrong. Almost every pet food lable contains animal byproducts of some sort or another.
Of course with the cattle there was an issue, due mainly from feeding diseased animals back to rumanent vegitarian animals, and this is where you may have heard about regulations against the practice.
Most of the animals euthanised at the pound are sold by the pound and used for animal byproducts (ie; put back into pet food), it is yucky sounding but has been in practice for along time.
However regarding omnivour birds, not one of their emotions is going to tell you it's wrong. My birds absolute favorite treat is Sunday leftovers (chicken dinner).

 

[Bossroo]

All natural... nature's carrion garbage disposals, the buzzards , eat dead carcasses every day weather the decieced died from predation, old age, or desease. At last count they have been around for millions of years. Chickens being omnivores eat any animal be it alive or what they find dead, even their own kind, when the oportunity comes along.