corn/soy free poultry fed fishmeal

[SkyAJK]

As more people are looking for corn and soy free poultry I find that the majority of them are fed fish and crab meal. I have read it can pass into their yolks, and livers especially. Crab has a mercury level of .1 which is right up there with a can of tuna. Why does there not seem to be much concern over this? Is it not enough to affect bird or human health?

I have headache whenever I look for new chicken feed. They all have soy beans, and 1 that soya free is Organic which is higher cost. My chicken feed 20kg is $34. The soya free is organic and it is $50 for 20g. Many of the feed I looked at have stated plant based protein, some are animals. Some is high in lentils. I ended up feed my chickens from a sanctuary recommendation feed, and I am stay with it. Some researches stated too much soya beans will cause chickens ill health.

 

[Sic]

Price check on Aisle 1???

I believe 1 ppb is one µg/Kg.

Am I in the wrong aisle, or was that a typo??? so easy to misplace a decimal or two with numbers at this scale. I've done it more than once, certainly.

Lol, I'm tired. Yes, and 1 ppm is 1µg/g

 

[learningaboutpoutry]

Source on the 180 ppb in tuna? On average, canned white tuna has .328 ppm of mercury. 1 ppm is equal to 1mg/kg or 1µg/g so the concentration of mercury in tuna is .328µg/g. It's recommended not to consume more than 1.5 micrograms methylmercury per kilogram of your body weight per week. So if you take the average 300ppb in kidney tissue, that is .3µg/g, about similar concentration as the tuna, also not many people eat chicken kidneys.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has set 0.5 ppm and 0.7 µg/kg as traces for mercury and methyl mercury, respectively. Based on Provisional Tolerance Weekly Intake set by JECFA (Joint FAO/WHO), PTWI is 5 for mercury and 1.6 µg/kg b.w. for methyl mercury.

I was eating both chicken and turkey liver daily along with salmon for a source of iron from corn/soy free poultry fed fishmeal. I was anemic and couldn't digest red meat well and thought it was a mercury free, easily digestible source of iron. I also ate an egg daily from same farm. I am rather low weight and stopped when I read this article some time ago,

 

[chooki]

Currently, I hand feed my 6 pullets/hens dough. Those dough were made of roughly 15% milk powder and 85% wheat powder and it's the main meal for them.

In the past few years, none of my chickens seemed to like layer pellets. Also two of my newest pullets had problem growing feathers when they were 8-9 weeks old, thus the milk wheat dough.

My pullets/hens are free ranging at least 8 hours every day, so they also eat plenty of grass and whatever worm/insects they can catch. On top of that, they are occasionally given prawn heads, meat scrap, green vegetables, seasoned fruits, rice and bread. So their diet is mostly corn/soy free.

They pullets/hens are very healthy, they give me 4-5 eggs every day amongst 6 of them and their eggs are delicious.

 

[chooki]

My milk wheat dough eating chickens:

 

[saysfaa]

As more people are looking for corn and soy free poultry I find that the majority of them are fed fish and crab meal. I have read it can pass into their yolks, and livers especially. Crab has a mercury level of .1 which is right up there with a can of tuna. Why does there not seem to be much concern over this? Is it not enough to affect bird or human health?

There is some concern. I've seen it come up periodically.

This is what I found/concluded the last time I looked into it..quoting myself from a couple of years ago

"The mercury from ocean products is not usually a problem because selenium protects against the effects of the mercury as long as there are more moles of selenium than moles of mercury. (Lol, high school chemistry used in real life!).

Anyway, there is enough selenium in ocean water and not so much mercury that people and chickens can eat ocean fish products without concern about the mercury."

I'm not so sure now. People do sometimes get into trouble with mercury when they eat a lot of ocean fish products.

It came up in real life last year in my family; it was one of the things my son in law ran into but he was in end stage kidney failure then. Between the barely functioning kidneys and the extremely limited diet he wasn't remotely close to a typical case.

At a minimum, you might have your selenium levels checked. Many people are deficient. Even if you changed your diet and no longer have too much mercury, selenium is essential for more than just protecting against mercury.

Possibly, the selenium that comes with the mercury in the ocean products is used for other things in a person who is selenium deficient. Then it would not be available to buffer the mercury. Or there could be something else going on.

 

[Sic]

I was eating both chicken and turkey liver daily along with salmon for a source of iron from corn/soy free poultry fed fishmeal. I was anemic and couldn't digest red meat well and thought it was a mercury free, easily digestible source of iron. I also ate an egg daily from same farm. I am rather low weight and stopped when I read this article some time ago,

Sorry to hear that you have medical issues. My suggestion would be to speak to a doctor, possibly a dietician to help. This forum isn't really the place to go for personal medical or dietary advice. If you want to raise your own chicken, turkey or other poultry and what you can/should feed them, you might find something here. Otherwise, from here on, I'm going to consider you a forum troll. Have a nice day.

 

[learningaboutpoutry]

Currently, I hand feed my 6 pullets/hens dough. Those dough were made of roughly 15% milk powder and 85% wheat powder and it's the main meal for them.

In the past few years, none of my chickens seemed to like layer pellets. Also two of my newest pullets had problem growing feathers when they were 8-9 weeks old, thus the milk wheat dough.

My pullets/hens are free ranging at least 8 hours every day, so they also eat plenty of grass and whatever worm/insects they can catch. On top of that, they are occasionally given prawn heads, meat scrap, green vegetables, seasoned fruits, rice and bread. So their diet is mostly corn/soy free.

They pullets/hens are very healthy, they give me 4-5 eggs every day amongst 6 of them and their eggs are delicious.

You seem like the kind of neighbor many people would like to have to get eggs from.

 

[learningaboutpoutry]

Sorry to hear that you have medical issues. My suggestion would be to speak to a doctor, possibly a dietician to help. This forum isn't really the place to go for personal medical or dietary advice. If you want to raise your own chicken, turkey or other poultry and what you can/should feed them, you might find something here. Otherwise, from here on, I'm going to consider you a forum troll. Have a nice day.

because I want to learn/know about mercury content in chicken and turkey makes me a troll? It's an important issue to me. I'm not here for medical advice, I just want to know what is in my food and how poultry is raised and fed. I don't see what is wrong with that. What I see wrong is how rude people can be with their responses "fire your school system" etc. That doesn't help anybody and just makes for bad conversation.