Current Social Media Chicken Feed Craze - posted testing results

[chickDgnr8]

How is it not relevant to show the result of a scientific analysis to end a conspiracy theory?

Are folks going to search for "Media Chicken Feed Craze" or "Chicken Feed Lab Test Results"

 

[nuthatched]

ought a book so poorly written/edited that I couldn't in good conscience give it Goodwill, because someone else might spend money on it. I threw it in the woodstove.

I've thrown out a few books, most were trash but one was absolutely fantastic, well written, good characters, absorbing story....until the writer shoehorned smut right in the middle. It didn't further the plot or even make sense for it to be there at all. I was so disappointed in what I thought was going to be my new favorite series.

 

[Sally PB]

I've thrown out a few books, most were trash but one was absolutely fantastic, well written, good characters, absorbing story....until the writer shoehorned smut right in the middle. It didn't further the plot or even make sense for it to be there at all. I was so disappointed in what I thought was going to be my new favorite series.

Perhaps an editor told the author to "spice it up a bit" to "improve sales?"

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Are folks going to search for "Media Chicken Feed Craze" or "Chicken Feed Lab Test Results"

Don't worry about it. I'm an incessant linker.

Frankly, some of the people most in need don't search regardless, and some don't bother to follow relevant links even when posted for them. I'm not wasting my time with them.

 

[nuthatched]

Perhaps an editor told the author to "spice it up a bit" to "improve sales?"

You can say? I would have bought them all if it hadn't been there

 

[chickDgnr8]

NOTHING.

There is no known, readily available, oral contraceptive for chickens which causes them to stop laying. There is a rather expensive chemical cocktail which can be periodically injected subdermally to stop some birds from laying - its used by zoos - but again, no oral equivalent.

I can't prove a negative in a universe of posibilities. I instead invite you to demonstrate the existence of this hereforto unknown magical substance. Incredible claims demand incredible proof, not merely the blathering of the ignorant, no matter how loudly the crowd brays.

"steroid hormone drugs are typically formulated as pellets"

Forth paragraph down on this page:

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterina...e-implants-used-growth-food-producing-animals

If they can use steroids and hormones to boost growth can they make something to stop egg laying? You know like birth control pills for adult human women? I think the good news is that once the feed is changed they go back to laying rather quickly, whatever is going on, it is not permanent!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

"steroid hormone drugs are typically formulated as pellets"

Forth paragraph down on this page:

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterina...e-implants-used-growth-food-producing-animals

If they can use steroids and hormones to boost growth can they make something to stop egg laying? You know like birth control pills for adult human women? I think the good news is that once the feed is changed they go back to laying rather quickly, whatever is going on, it is not permanent!

Read my comments above, I've already answered this. Birds aren't cows or humans, you can't cause them to stop laying by tricking them into thinking they are pregnant, all mammal-like, because birds don't carry live young to term.

 

[Goosey Girl]

I use both Dumor and Purina for my flock of hens, ducks, and geese. Last October, my hens slowed down their egg laying to nothing. Why? Shorter days and a heavy molt!! Now that the days have gotten longer and molting is done....surprise all are laying eggs. In fact, yesterday every one of my hens laid an egg.

My four runner ducks have continuously laid eggs all winter, rarely missing a single day. My geese are starting to lay eggs. Everyone is healthy and the eggs are beautiful.

So many factors can contribute to a decline in egg production. Besides the obvious shorter days and molting, you could have stress from adding new birds, or something as simple as a new dog that barks at hem all the time. Sure, maybe there is something changing in the feed, but to ignore the multitude of other possibilities for reduced egg production, is misleading.

 

[chickDgnr8]

Mmmm, do you know much about Nicarbazin? I've only just read about it this week, but it looks like it's an anticoccidial in chickens that's also used for population control in Canadian geese and pigeons through "contraceptive corn". Not sure if anyone's used it for population control in chickens since that's not normally desirable.
Also, from here, "A side effect of nicarbazin, a veterinary drug used to control coccidiosis in chickens, is decreased egg production and hatching."
It's been around for a while, too, at least since 1956 or 1957 (see here).

Good job, Thanks!

"OvoControl-G® 2500 ppm nicarbazin bait is recommended for incorporation into a comprehensive management plan as a reproductive inhibitor for use in controlling resident Canada goose flock sizes."

Quoted from the Abstract. Bait as in food, not implants. If nicarbazin effects chickens is the next question.

 

[3KillerBs]

I've thrown out a few books, most were trash but one was absolutely fantastic, well written, good characters, absorbing story....until the writer shoehorned smut right in the middle. It didn't further the plot or even make sense for it to be there at all. I was so disappointed in what I thought was going to be my new favorite series.

I always hate when authors do that.

Especially when they do it in a way that makes a married woman wonder if the author actually ever had any personal experience.

Pointless, unnecessary, irrelevant to plot or character development, tedious, and laugh-inducing.

Just tell me a good story and forget the gratuitous smut!