Current Social Media Chicken Feed Craze - posted testing results

[U_Stormcrow]

Not sure about the title. It doesn't seem relevant to show, explain or debate Chicken Feed Lab results. Maybe to misleading down the road to conspiracy theory, but whatever you think should work.

I can't change it, but Health Ranger Mike Adam's results( (if he should share them) will be here, and the results Aunt Angus gets back as well).

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Pesticides, Part 2. Again, I'm going to try and puzzle some of these out.

Heptachlor Epoxide
Lindane
Methoxychlor
Mirex
Technical Chlordane
Toxaphene
Chlorpyrifos Methyl
Ethion
Ethyl Parathion
Malathion (still used in the US for Mosquito Control)
Methyl Parathion
Ronnel
Tetrachlorvinphos
All below this lab's detection limits. Most of these (I'm not familiar with all of them), but most of these are suspected carcinogens. Suspected carcinogens take TIME, and can't be quickly reversed. Yes, a bird with the right cancers will stop laying, subsequently changing feed won't fix that - and again, below detection limits, much less levels the EPA considers potentially concerning.

 

[Brooks_]

and why its use was banned

I do not. Just know that it was. Same with Dursban -banned. And Dimetapp - reformulated.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Metals:

Arsenic: 0.194 ppm
Cadmium 0.08 ppm
Lead 0.098 ppm
Mercury <.01 ppm
Calcium; Testing error

For reference, 1 mg/kg = 1 ppm. Cadmium levels greater than 10 ppm are not acceptable in chicken feed, High doses negatively impact body weight bone structure/density, eggshell quality. and will eventually reduce rate of lay. Low lwevels of cadmium, otoh, have positive impact (around 1 ppm) - tested here roughly 1/12th that.

Arsenic levels are fine too - it was once ADDED to poultry feed deliberately. The lead? W/i limits.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Metals:

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Arsenic: 0.194 ppm
Cadmium 0.08 ppm
Lead 0.098 ppm
Mercury <.01 ppm
Calcium; Testing error

Calcium results pending? *reaches for tin foil hat*

 

[Brooks_]

Calcium results pending? *reaches for tin foil hat*

That would lead to a soft shell. Not so much not laying. A factor, at best.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Feed was also sent to Servitech. They were not told it wass Producer's Pride

I do not. Just know that it was. Same with Dursban -banned. And Dimetapp - reformulated.

DDT got into the water, where it was taken up by the fish, and then consumed by birds like the Bald Eagle, where it had negative effect on reproduction (and shells, if I recall correctly), leading to severe drops in wild eagle populations and other raptors. Banned int he early 70s (US) still used for mosquito control elsewhere (alternative is more malaria).

 

[U_Stormcrow]

That would lead to a soft shell. Not so much not laying. A factor, at best.

I suspect too much calcium FOR THE TESTS. They were measuring parts per million. Producers Pride Layer formulation is supposed to be around 4% calcium. That's 4 per hundred, 40 per thousand. 40,000 ppm....

 

[3KillerBs]

 

[Alagirl]

Feed was also sent to Servitech. They were not told it wass Producer's Pride

DDT got into the water, where it was taken up by the fish, and then consumed by birds like the Bald Eagle, where it had negative effect on reproduction (and shells, if I recall correctly), leading to severe drops in wild eagle populations and other raptors. Banned int he early 70s (US) still used for mosquito control elsewhere (alternative is more malaria).

In 3rd world countries, I believe.
I mean, the developing world.
people younger than me should barely remember - for better or worse, considering that nearly everybody has a Bald Eagle in the backyard these days.
I think 'thin shell' was the issue, resulting in nonviable clutches.