Free rein feeding method

[saysfaa]

maybe this overview of the findings will help
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2018/01/31/what-are-the-worlds-most-nutritious-foods/

Pork fat is a top ten most nutritious food?
Really?
I'm willing to explore how they determined that but... really!?

did you download the S1 data set?

No. The data set isn't in S1 other than the two examples.

 

[saysfaa]

@Brooks_ @nuthatched @Tired old Rooster the following should answer your questions..

Hypothesis-

1. That with the constant availability of enough variety of ingredients to choose between in individually separated auto fed containers, they will be more capable of adjusting their nutritional intake according to individual need than I would be.

2. That this could potentially result in lower feed consumption, less waste, and healthier birds that live longer and lay better tasting more nutritious eggs.

As far as I’m aware their ability to self regulate intake of anything other than calories and calcium has not been tested, so it’ll be interesting to find out either way.

The test subjects will be Italian coturnix roosting on the Welsh border with me and my two dogs.

It has been tested in chickens. At least two peer review published studies offered each ingredient of a commercial feed separately. The chicks (in one) and laying hens (in the other) ate very nearly the exact proportions of each ingredient as the commercial mix had.... over many weeks for the chicks. I don't know the time frame for the hens. I think there have been others too.

I'm most interested in how managing so many separate containers goes.

 

[Perris]

Pork fat is a top ten most nutritious food?
Really?
I'm willing to explore how they determined that but... really!?


No. The data set isn't in S1 other than the two examples.

it's a separate link, an excel file

 

[Perris]

Pork fat is a top ten most nutritious food?
Really?
I'm willing to explore how they determined that but... really!?

'nutritious' here is based on the adequacy of levels of essential good nutrients and the absence of bad nutrients in something. You know how important that is because of your struggles with selenium.

 

[Ital]

it's a separate link, an excel file

It doesn’t open for me either

 

[Ital]

It has been tested in chickens. At least two peer review published studies offered each ingredient of a commercial feed separately. The chicks (in one) and laying hens (in the other) ate very nearly the exact proportions of each ingredient as the commercial mix had.... over many weeks for the chicks. I don't know the time frame for the hens. I think there have been others too.

I'm most interested in how managing so many separate containers goes.

Thankyou for posting this.
I haven’t seen the studies, it’s reassuring news.
Do you remember where you found them? Or could you post the links?

 

[Kiki]

did you download the S1 data set?

Here guys...
I copied it over to a Google Sheet for you.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_qeXt1lfI3gWNyN24DHguMU2clQp5OGUM8VWF1YJ4ao/edit?usp=sharing



edit.
I went ahead and added the S2 Data set to a second tab in this worksheet.
Notice the tab (sheet) names on the bottom.

 

[saysfaa]

Thankyou for posting this.
I haven’t seen the studies, it’s reassuring news.
Do you remember where you found them? Or could you post the links?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/can-the-chick-balance-its-ration.1555475/

Poultry Science
Volume 11, Issue 2, 1 March 1932, Pages 94-97

Can the Chick Balance Its Ration?
E.M. Funk

University of Missouri, Columbia
Received 14 July 1931, Available online 11 December 2019, Version of Record 11 December 2019.

 

[Perris]

Thankyou for posting this.
I haven’t seen the studies, it’s reassuring news.
Do you remember where you found them? Or could you post the links?

they are linked here, together with similar studies on pullets and on meat birds choosing their own with better results than on a so-called complete feed.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...trad-views-on-nutrition.1567953/post-26615879

 

[Ital]

they are linked here, together with similar studies on pullets and on meat birds choosing their own with better results than on a so-called complete feed.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...trad-views-on-nutrition.1567953/post-26615879

I’d already liked this post in the nutrition thread but obviously not consciously taken it in.
If the cost issue can be addressed with things like forage, rearing insects, and home grown pseudo grains ect. I can’t see any reasonable argument for feeding pellets other than convenience.