Don't feed your chickens ,Chicken

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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No reference to cooked or uncooked, therefore your statement is false. Thank you for clarification on your intent, though.

My perspective as a part of the Livestock Feeding Industry was from a feed ingredient standpoint, not a "lets get left overs from the grocery". Any animal product used in commercial livestock feeds are cooked in some manner, ranging from spray-dried animal plasma to meat and bone meal.

Jim

 

[mmtillman]

One day years ago..I was sitting out in my car at work....eatin my lunch from home, during my lunch hour. I had a container of leftover cold chicken , my favorite. Along with that ...I packed a hard boiled egg . I looked down and saw I had an egg in one hand and a drumstick in the other and I froze !!! To this day , I can not eat chicken and eggs in the same meal. Dont know why not..but something in my brain went , ''TILT TILT TILT'
So I would think that chickens would feel the same way when offered leftover chicken pieces to eat ?? Just my feelings on the subject....LOL!!

 

[patandchickens]

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You haven't seen the way they go after meat, have you? Or frankly the way they will freely disassemble and consume a fellow chicken with a visible wound or prolapse?

Think "Velociraptor". Seriously.

Pat

 

[PortageGirl]

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Not even close, chickens see someTHING, peck it, peck it again and again and again, is it edible?>yes> EAT IT!! is it edible?>no>EAT IT ANYWAY!! Maybe there should/could possibly be a is it safe to eat and is it healthy to eat question there too, but the answer would be EAT IT ANYWAY!! again... maybe a 'does it resemble a bug' or does it look almost like a seed... but the answer is still EAT IT ANYWAY!!

They don't reason that it might have been another chicken that is providing them protein, they just eat the protein.

Chickens don't think much, and feel only direct, is it pleasant, is it warm, is it bringing me food sort of responses.... if you fall down and die in the coop, they'll dine for a few weeks on the remains. Sorry, sounds mean, but chickens just don't care.

 

[ricky bamboo]

My chickens eat chicken leftovers, last weekend my birds enjoyed leftover pigtails...mmmm.... after christmas they cleaned up a huge turkey carcass and smoked salmon in an hour. Whatever scraps come from the table go to the chickens.
I'm pretty sure that they have eaten mice, too, but i haven't caught them in the act yet.

 

[Buster]

I just fed my chickens a nice leftover bowl of chicken that was starting to get dry. They devoured it. Good protein supplement.

 

[RedHead]

stop me if I'm wrong here, but I've read in quite a few books that feeding chicken to chickens can cause cannibalism problems within your flock. And I noticed someone else on here brought it up and I agree w/ the fact that they're not smart enough to distinguish the difference between raw and cooked but wouldn't it still taste about the same to them, well - the herbs and whatnot used in the cooking of the chicken. Just like feeding egg shells to them will cause and egg eating problem.
This is just stuff I've read, mind you, I'm not speaking from personal experience, but I assume if it's in every one of these books then there has to be some validity to it.

 

[Buster]

No problems with cannibalism here- I do it all the time. I don't even have problems with pecking anymore. Feeding enough protein helps with that.

 

[PortageGirl]

I'd be very interested in seeing where, and in what actual book or source it says feeding cooked meat is dangerous as far as encouraging cannibalism. I'm pretty skeptical about that, but willing to learn if I'm wrong.


I really think that once it's cooked, they can't tell what it actually is and no longer equate it to their old friend Daisy Mae Hen. The texture and consistency is totally different and they no longer say "Mmmmm, tastes like chicken!".

My only experience with actual cannibalism has been one injured hen that they all ganged up on, and I think that happens because they instinctively do that since an injured flock member could attract predators and is a danger to the flock, not for a domestic flock, but for a wild flock it could be true. I don't think there's much real 'thinking' involved, it's all instinct, no thought IMO.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Mad Cow disease came up in my Biology class today as we are talking about viruses. This is what my text book says about it:

In late December 2003, the U.S. Department of Agriculture daignosed a single cow in Washington State with bovine spongiform encephalopathy(BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease. BSE is a degenerative brain disease that reesults in muscle paralysis, wasting, and death. Research suggests that mad cow disease is caused by prions. Prions are infectious protein particles that do not have a genome. They are abnormal forms of a natural brain protein that appear to convert normal brain proteins into prion particles. Scientists hypothesize that the prions then clump together inside cells and cause cell death.

Prions appear to cause a number of other degenerative brain diseases, including scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans. The BSE epidemic in the United Kingdom in the early 1900s was most likely caused by the feeding of scrapie-contaminated meat and bone meal to cattle. Scientific evidence indicates that BSE has been transmitted to humans, causing a variant form of CJD (vCJD). This evidence comes from studies that followed the unusually high numbers of young people in the United Kingdom that developed this rare disease in the late 1900s. Eating BSE-contaminated beef and beef products was the probable cause of vCJD in these cases. Measures to protect the foo supply are the best safeguards. However, the overall risk to human health from BSE is very low.