Don't feed your chickens ,Chicken

[greyfields]

There is no "mad pig disease". They have not been able to even create it in a laboratory.

I do not know if porcine meal is included in your pig feed. My guess is that it is. The ingredients I'm finding through google include "animal fat" along with fish and seed meals for protein.

 

[debilorrah]

I remember when Montana had the whole anti government people in the hills shooting at people..... Their state put out t-shirts that said "At least our cows are sane". Texas was in the midst of mad-cow disease outbreak at the time..... It is everywhere.

 

[redhen]

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no..i dont think there is a mad pig disease...but..it supposedly DOES give them "something" i'll try to look it up..

 

[greyfields]

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Well, again referring back to the UK, they wanted to remove all the mad cows from the livestock population. They paid farmers 1,000 pounds for each animal which had to be destroyed, and also destroyed all the animal's offspring (also with compensation). It was effective. But, because of this, the UK will always be the one remembered for the mad cow scare since the number of reported cases was 10-100X any other country.

There certainly were as many cows per capita in Europe and the US. Any dairy man could spot them months before the symptoms were full blown. So, where did they go? They were all hamburgered and have long been eaten. The switch in the feeding regime has removed the largest source.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Uh, why is no one correcting the OP? Feeding chickens chicken has nothing to do with mad cow or any other similiar disease. If you choose to not feed your chickens animal proteins that is your choice. However, making a ridiculous claim that chickens eating chicken, a natural scavenger and carnivore, will give them some disease is both unscientific and irresponsible.

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After reading the responses again I realized there were posts pointing out the real science. I guess I was just looking for someone to say the OP is WRONG.

 

[greyfields]

I'm not sure if we can say for sure there will not be a "mad chicken" outbreak. It seems to me, though, all the problems started by feeding animal protein to ruminants which should be vegetarians. Chickens, obviously are not.

But, humans are omnivores, too, and the eating of brain matter by canibals does cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). I'm not sure the logic follows arguing it either way.

 

[redhen]

okay..i think they say you shouldnt feed pigs pork is because of the potential for the spread of Tricinosis....if they get a piece of undercooked meat and it has Trichinge..they will then be carriers of it....then a human will eat them...hence the potential for a big problem.....and i am assuming this is more directed to the "big" pig farms that mass produce our food...

 

[flakey chick]

Chickens are not mamals. They are not affected the same way.

".... In contrast to mammalian PrP, avian prion proteins have a considerably different N-terminal copper binding region and, most interestingly, are not able to undergo the conversion process into an infectious isoform...."

From
Comparative Analysis of the Human and Chicken Prion Protein Copper Binding Regions at pH 6.5
Lars Redecke, Wolfram Meyer-Klaucke§, Mirjam Koker, Joachim Clos, Dessislava Georgieva, Nicolay Genov, Hartmut Echner**, Hubert Kalbacher**, Markus Perbandt, Reinhard Bredehorst, Wolfgang Voelter**, and Christian Betzel

(Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M411775200 on January 30, 2005
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 280, Issue 14, 13987-13992, April 8, 2005)

I have yet to hear of scientific reports of any similar type disease found in birds or reptiles.

 

[JennsPeeps]

nods @ PC

I feed my chickens chicken. not frequently, but when we have to throw it out due to spoilage. The other night I made dinner and DBF didn't put the leftovers away afterward. This morning the girls got 2 thighs, and tomorrow they'll get 2 more. It's not a frequent occurance, as this is a wasteful practice. Chicken feed is cheaper than feeding them chickens.

Most people on the meat birds thread have a hard time keeping their layers away from the processing area when it comes time to send the meaties to freezer camp. The layers go nuts over the innards.

 

[picklespickles]

this last post is one i really agree with. chickens would eat each other whether we were involved or not.