is corn as main ingredient good for chickens?

[CARS]

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It's true. I bought a broken bag of "whatever you have around" from a seed dealer. Sure enough, roundup ready. Who'da thunk???

 

[Teach97]

Watch out spartacus...we are gonna get told that just cuz folks does it that doesn't mean it is right...then we will talk abut the scientific studies and get told those are all funded by big corporations (Monsanto) and how we don't know everything...then one of us will actually say something about having run a feedmill (used to work for a living) and fed 30,000 steers everyday or ran 50,000 hogs on feed...these things don't make us informed...never mind the degrees...but i type on...

yup...corn is a good source of carbs...

 

[spartacus_63]

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I think Monsanto is owned by Sam Walton and the CEO also works for Halliburton.

 

[smilingcat]

Feed your chicken a BALANCED diet. Personally, I don't think I can stomach eating corn for breakfast in a form of cereal, corn for lunch and corn for din din... That would not be good for me. I like variety. And so do my chicken. In fact, corn is fairly low on their interest.

My chicken love sorrel (sort of like spinach and its in short supply over winter as it doesn't grow very well.) Summer time we have plenty of it. Next they like spinach which we also grow. Funny thing, my chickens love the stalks and the red part of the spinach. Leaves are okay most of the time... Oh they also love BOSS when we give it to them. Cooked organic brown rice is a special treat. So is chopped up leftover pasta.

One thing our birds love to do is they dig everywhere looking for worms, grubs, earwigs... Sometimes I let them loose where the weed is knee high. Oh they love the weed jungle. Always foraging for bugs and eating the grass. They never stop eating...

Oh I also rip out crab grass from our garden and feed that to the chickens too. They love grass.

The natural and varied diet my girls get, better tasting eggs we get. The yolks are almost orange in color, high in beta carotene? and most likely much lower in bad cholestrol.

Feeding cracked corn is easy but do take the time to feed them variety.

Strange, we don't give them calcium supplement... No ground up oyster shell.... Supplements of any kind for that matter. The eggs they lay have solid shell. Not even wrinkled. Medium to just hair shy of being a large egg.

 

[spartacus_63]

FWI, SandHill Preservation Center sells "Chicken Treat" seed packets that are great for sowing for your girls, if you have an area that you can protect from them for a few weeks. I have a brooder coop/run where my chicks are raised. I rake and sow as early as I can, by the time the chicks are ready to run, they have a jungle of leafy treats to explore.

 

[5pinkarrows]

Wow! This sure is a contested topic! I have actually thought about this a lot. I don't like giving my family a bunch of corn, and I wonder how good it is to eat eggs from chickens eating so much corn. There seems to be some intellectual elitism in this thread. Seriously, though, common sense shouldn't be thrown out here. Like somebody mentioned, the corn is so cheap because we pay for it twice (the first time with our taxes). That really isn't cheap. Secondly, it has been so genetically altered. There are always negative consequences to that. I wouldn't mind feeding them organic corn, though. Maybe I ought to check out Azure Standard. I know they make deliveries about an hour north of here. Thanks to whoever mentioned that!

 

[Organics North]

Yes it is a contested topic..... Try to go one day without eating something with corn in it, or that was fed corn.. Very very very hard to do these days..
Me if find it weird...

Great post smilingcat!!!

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[spartacus_63]

Don't just limit yourself to corn. Most farm grains are modified for something. Try eating something that doesn't come from a farm. Obviously that doesn't include the Certified Organic Farm. But if you buy all your groceries from an organic farm, you will see why, producing hybrid seeds is a good thing.

 

[primal woman]

I’ve read all of the posts and they go every which way. I will put in my 2 cents, but wish not to argue with anyone who disagrees with me. Thank you for posting this information. It is mostly good, true and useful info if a person is truly interested in eating healthy to stay healthy.

About the post of slaughter and the animals still being alive: While I am NOT condoning such acts, we must remember that nature does this too. What does a cat do to a mouse before it kills it? And wolves start eating their prey and don’t even kill it. They just start eating! Cruel? Yes. Anything I can do about it? No.

Comments on other postings here: don’t eat meat?? If grass/cellulose can’t be digested by non ruminants (horses?), then why should we eat grass/spinach/kale/broccoli etc??

Why don’t coyotes have problems eating meat? How about dogs? Cats? Anyone seen any heart disease/atherosclerosis/arteriosclerosis in these animals eating a wild caught diet?

Don’t bother answering really. I’ll eat lots of meat if it is healthy raised and especially wild as in venison or the likes.

Corn is everywhere as mentioned and I sure don’t want it to be the main ingredient if I can help it. Free range and no feed store food is best for the chickens. Just make them go find it.

That is all. I won’t argue if someone posts and disagrees with me. Have a great day.

 

[Organics North]

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Come on............... Hybrid seed ???.. Hybrids can be organic..!!!! Organic does not by any means heirloom or Open pollinated.....(What does Monsanto provide a hand book for you to follow to try and confuse people.... This is not about hybrids! It is about ................

GMO........................ ie GENTICALLY modified organism... Done in the lab, not cross breeds/hybrids done in the field ... hybrids are semi natural acts of nature, with a little help from man. (Still Gods creation!) The tinkering humans do in the lab fooling with genes under the microscope and adding things that would never ever ever occur in nature is what is at question with many...
Just for that I am going to say the F word.............................



............................... FRANKENFOODS....

Plus one can not patent a hybrid, like Monsanto does with the GMO x#*&%$... IMO owning seed like that is just wrong... Darn stuff can cross with natural seed and contaminate it... Your tinkering may destroy the world not save it..

Organic does not need to be that expensive... Say maybe 20% higher..and very competitive with conventional once we ban GMO's like many many nations on this planet have..

I find it disturbing that it is very difficult to go a day with out a meal of corn or Soy? It was not so many years ago when that was not the case.....It is like we have been abducted or something...


I am sorry it quite disturbing, to say the least..

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