Gross and Evil or Efficient?

[AHappychick]

I have heard that it can cause brain problems or something when a species eats its own. at least I know I have read it is not good for them, then again I have cats I can give mine to.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

I'm officially weirded about it. My DH has tried to feed the girls chicken and it flips me out. I'll feed them other forms of meat but never any of their own. Can't do it. Just can't.

 

[unionwirewoman]

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Feeding cooked chicken will not give them a disease like " mad cow " . Meat , especially chicken , is high in protienwhich is great for raising animals . Just because they eat thier own kind does not mean they will attack live chickens . I've heard of the stories that chickens will eat thier own kind , and believe it , but that only occurs when thier are open wounds , sores , or poopy butts . My 93 yr old grandma finally convinced me to feed meat to my chickens , and they have never looked or acted better . Disease only happens when meat is not properly cooked ( ie...Mad cow disease comes from infected cows bone meal that is used in feed lots . ) If you buy regular chicken from the store....you're taking the same or more of a risk of illness depending on how you butcher your chickens (cleaning/packaging) and how you cook it . I like the fact that none of my chickens have growth hormones , and after butchering , are not injected with water to make it bigger .

 

[swoop]

my dh always gives our cockatoo a chicken wing when he eats them and she loves them - she carries on something awful if she sees you eating them and you dont give her any - he always laughs and mutters cannibal under his breath when he gives her the chicken wing. i remember learning in a biology class that people cannibals used to get (i think) "berri-berri" - a similar brain wasting disease from ingesting human brain matter (eeew!) and i thought alot of the spread of similar diseases from eating animals came about when the brain or spinal cord inadvertently got processed with the rest of the meat. i thought that was how mad cow got started as far as infecting the beef initially. scary stuff

 

[Tweeza]

I believe mad cow got started when diseased animals were ground up and fed to herbivours. I was horrified when I learned that. I was even more horrified to learn they sometimes sell those same diseased animals to us humans for our dinner. When I was a kid my folks had a downed calf (one that could not get up and the vet could not diagnose it's problem). It was of an eatable size but they would not have it butchered because it was a sick animal and you just don't eat sick animals.

 

[SandraChick]

Very efficient....

We butcher whatever we hunt/fish....the chickens always get whatever we don't use...and only then, the bones/hide get buried...near a tree/bush for fertilizer. USE IT ALL!!!!

Sandra

 

[warmfuzzies]

I know what ya mean... we had a mean rooster, and the meat was gross when I butchered him. (I diddnt bleed him out well) So we gave them a whole pan of breaded baked chicken... their own! They were thrilled. They dont know it as anything other then a tasty meal.

DH was grossed out by it though!

 

[SpringChickens]

LOL. I just got yelled at for feeding hard-boiled easter eggs to our hens. DH said that now we wouldn't be able to stop them from eating their own eggs... never mind that I cracked the eggs and they were hard boiled. Same thing, sure, whatever you say

 

[Mahonri]

I gave my chickens left over roast today.

If I go out tomorrow and they start mooing, I'll know for sure I'm in trouble.

 

[HennysMom]

I dont feed my girls chicken at all - not because they wont eat it.. but because its not MY chicken - its grocery store chicken and I consider my girls "organic". All the chicken in the stores are injected with solutions of some sort or another and given antibiotics and steriods - and mine are not, so I dont want them to have the meat of other birds that have been given those things.

I dont know.. its a thing I have. For protein I will give them their own eggs and on occassion, they will get steak scraps, but I know where the steak came from and its organically raised, so no worries about injections or steriods there either.