is corn as main ingredient good for chickens?

[KimberlyJ]

OK, I for one am tired of seeing that really long article quoted.....didn't bother to read it the first time since I don't have any cows, I've got chickens. And I just want to say this: I LOVE THAT FIRST EAR OF SWEET CORN EVERY SUMMER!

Course it's not the only thing I eat all year.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

"jounalism " like this is why many people have so many miconceptions about grain. Anyone who relly is interested in true facts can find them easily on the internet. Any true facts will be peer reviewed by scentific review. Most of this artical is just plain false and , while making for good readidng, spreads more false thinsg that treuth. The trouble is that unsepecting people beliveit it, much like tabloid reporting. " I read it , so it has to be true." a recent report, that was peer reveiwed, and you can find it. showed that grass fed beef was acuuually unhealther that grain fed. This was dismissed by the grass fed movement as propaganda, but facts are facts. Feed what you like, do waht you like, but do some research, before you by into the above artical as gospel. Or drink the kool-aid if you like. Its your life.

That just happened to be one of the many places I have read about saying corn is not good for ruminants.​

 

[ksf59]

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That just happened to be one of the many places I have read about saying corn is not good for ruminants.

The lives of grassfed livestock are more humane and natural than the lives of animals confined in factory farms and feedlots, but their deaths are often just as terrifying and cruel. If they are taken to a conventional slaughterhouse, they are just as likely as a feedlot animal to be skinned while alive and fully conscious, and just as apt to be butchered and have their feet cut off while they are still breathing — distressing realities that tragically occur every hour in meat-packing plants nationwide. Confronting the brutal realities of modern slaughterhouses can be a harsh reminder that those who contemplate only the pastoral image of cattle patiently foraging do not see the whole picture.
I know you are from California, but if you actually believe any of this, well as I said before,Drink the Kool-aid if you like, and wait for the starship behind the comet.The author is a nut job. end of story

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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That just happened to be one of the many places I have read about saying corn is not good for ruminants.

The lives of grassfed livestock are more humane and natural than the lives of animals confined in factory farms and feedlots, but their deaths are often just as terrifying and cruel. If they are taken to a conventional slaughterhouse, they are just as likely as a feedlot animal to be skinned while alive and fully conscious, and just as apt to be butchered and have their feet cut off while they are still breathing — distressing realities that tragically occur every hour in meat-packing plants nationwide. Confronting the brutal realities of modern slaughterhouses can be a harsh reminder that those who contemplate only the pastoral image of cattle patiently foraging do not see the whole picture.
I know you are from California, but if you actually believe any of this, well as I said before,Drink the Kool-aid if you like, and wait for the starship behind the comet.The author is a nut job. end of story

Have you ever actually done any research on Slaughterhouses? I have seen article after article after video after video on how awful and terrifying they are. There are only 30 slaughterhouses in all of the United States, down from HUNDREDS in the 1970's... Why do you think the last e-coli break-out affected 19 MILLION pounds of meat instead of 100,000... I have NO doubt in my mind that things like those stated above DO happen. You tell me to drink the cool-aid, I tell you to wake up.

 

[ghulst]

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WHY WHY WhY. If the farmers didn't have corn or soy you would be paying $10.00 a doz for eggs.

 

[Chris09]

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The lives of grassfed livestock are more humane and natural than the lives of animals confined in factory farms and feedlots, but their deaths are often just as terrifying and cruel. If they are taken to a conventional slaughterhouse, they are just as likely as a feedlot animal to be skinned while alive and fully conscious, and just as apt to be butchered and have their feet cut off while they are still breathing — distressing realities that tragically occur every hour in meat-packing plants nationwide. Confronting the brutal realities of modern slaughterhouses can be a harsh reminder that those who contemplate only the pastoral image of cattle patiently foraging do not see the whole picture.
I know you are from California, but if you actually believe any of this, well as I said before,Drink the Kool-aid if you like, and wait for the starship behind the comet.The author is a nut job. end of story

Have you ever actually done any research on Slaughterhouses? I have seen article after article after video after video on how awful and terrifying they are. There are only 30 slaughterhouses in all of the United States, down from HUNDREDS in the 1970's... Why do you think the last e-coli break-out affected 19 MILLION pounds of meat instead of 100,000... I have NO doubt in my mind that things like those stated above DO happen. You tell me to drink the cool-aid, I tell you to wake up.

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You do know that there is a difference between what you read and see on the internet and what happens in the real world. Right?

Chris

 

[sableboi]

For YEARS we fed Whole Corn to our chickens along with free ranging daily - the chickens lived LONG heathly lives - The key in all this is that they free ranged DAILY - ALL DAY. My penned birds require me to supplement them just as if they could get out and dine on the omnivorous buffet available to them when they foraged all day. So the simple answer is are your birds free range? Are they show stock or simply for eggs?

Corn can discolor white birds, so you have to be careful with it if you show - otherwise, save yourself the money and give your birds what they love.

 

[Hollywood Chickens]

Costco has a new wild bird seed mix, 40lbs for $15.00 it is mostly sunflower seeds, red millet, white millet, and some soy and peanuts. It does not have any corn and it is not dusty at all!

The Purina scratch has a ton of corn and I only feed it in the winter because the corn in the summer would make them over heat.

 

[sableboi]

I love how that article says we shouldnt be eating meat...Ain't none of us getting out of this world alive and I enjoy meat. They can eat all the rabbit food they want, I am a meat and potatoes guy!

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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And the Fallacies just keep coming!