Is This True?

Sounds gross but my puppy thinks that chicken poo is tasty. Got to watch her.

 

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should..

-Kim

 

Yes. This is true as weird as it sounds it is suppose to be good for cattle. I can tell you that we don't feed it to our cows but if the cows break into the chicken area they go straight for the manure pile. YUK.

 

Now I'm going to have to eat only beef that I know hasn't eaten chicken manure... YUK!

 

I've heard it suggested that one of the reasons Mad Cow is so hard to contain is that feed producers use parts of slaughtered cows plus their own urine and manure in making the feed for cows.

Now THAT is insane.


H.

 

Yes it is VERY true. They not only feed chicken manure but they can feed the wood shavings that the chickens planted their manure in. They are also allowed to feed waste chewing gum products - little foil wrappers and papper included. You can find alot of gov't info online about feed lots and what is allowed to be fed to cows, pigs etc.

Let me go find you a link from the archives.

For now here ios one from Mother Earth news.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sust...-You-Need-to-Know-About-the-Beef-You-Eat.aspx

Here is a link to another discussion on the forum a while back

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30741

 

You should read Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma. You won't believe what we do to our animals in the industrialized food system!

 

Much of Pollan's research was done through Joel Salatin. It is a very good book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. Personally, I don't make it far reading Salatin's works. Some of his opinions are a little weird and I can't handle the constant biblical references.

 

Quote:I agree, Salatin is a bit quirky, and I could do w/o the references as well. But, I really respect what he's doing and how he's helped other farmers realize there is another way of farming. Where Salatin helps the farmers, Pollan helps us "consumers" (hate that word).