Green in meat birds wing joints

[tboneranch]

to the BEER! heehee I tried drinking a few the first time we butchered and I gagged at every cut! I still say it was from putting my hand that close to my face-now if I just had one of those beer helmets! heh Suppose my husband ill get me one for Mother's Day?? HAHAHA Only teasing-I would rather have another pasture pen!!!

So anyway my "skimming" tecnique of taking a part of my pen of 100 (say doing 30 a day) may actually be contirbuting to this, correct? This is JUST the excuse I have been needing to split my 10X12 pen into two 5X6's.

I am definitely going to let them out of their pens earlier this year-I like the idea of more exercise than less!

 

[uhuh555]

For the simplest fix for heart problems; which leads to green meat; is to control calcium levels and the utilization of calcium within their bodies? Vitamin D, K and minerals Boron and Magnesium control the uptake and usage of calcium. The mineral boron is usually lacking in adequate levels in the feed to fulfill the fast growing meat bird’s needs.

Vitamin D and K “tell” the body to absorb calcium and control blood calcium levels. Minerals Boron and Magnesium “tell” the body what to do with it.

Buy 5mg Boron tablets at Wal-Mart (about $3). Dissolve one 5mg table for each gallon of drinking water. It is easiest to dissolve them in a cup of hot water then dilute it with the appropriate amount of cold water. If done during the first 4 weeks (during the most active growing period) it will prevent this problem and greatly increase you flocks survival rates.

 

[tboneranch]

Great! tHANKS FOR ALL THIS WONDERFUL INFO. Now, Boron being a mineral it's going to be in the human vitamin or supplement isle????? Maybe I could get it at my grocery store (about 20 miles closer than Wal-Mart) or even at Wal-greens???

I just checked my vitamin pak that is recommended by the hatchery-no boron.

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

Why do I even bother.

 

[uhuh555]

Selenium prevents myopathy of most origin. Selenium "piggybacks" with calcium and is added to most poultry feeds. When there is a deficiency in boron all the selenium in the world can't do the job. Boron directs it to the appropriate place in the body. When these lesions appear closer examination will show calcification of the tissue in and near the lesion site. Proper boron levels will release this bond between selenium and calcium resulting in healing of the lesion. Once the leasion is healed the calcium is reabsorbed into the body. When the body lacks boron it does the next best thing, it calcifies the surrounding tissue to slow the lesions growth.

That is why you should continue your good works!