Medicated feed

[Lea71]

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Hi there...un-medicated isn't the same thing as "organic".

I'm not quite grasping how meat products have anything to do with being organic??

 

[chickenlady]

Dennis: most of the chicken food made now does NOT contain animal proteins. They are all soy and plant proteins. It should not be hard to find one. Purina is not the only one. I prefer the animal proteins so I use game bird feed with has the animal protein in it. I dont quite understand the problem with feeding chickens some kind of meat, they are NOT vegetarians by nature.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

One other thing I have learned is that the TSC Dumor chick starter had "hydrolysed chicken feathers" in the ingredients. I have vowed to not feed my chickens meat in their feed or as scraps. They can eat bugs and worms all they want but I don't want to feed chicken to my chickens. It just seems wrong. I'm curious to know what others think about that.

I totally agree with this! I get the Purina also. I also allow mine to eat fresh bugs that THEY pick and feel safe eating my eggs from that rather then who knows what! It's nuts what is allowed to be ground up for pet food!

It's not that it's "meat" if it were JUST meat I would buy it but there are some really sick things ground up in that food and it's hardly ever PURE meat..it's "by-products" And that doesn't always mean meat. I would rather I KNOW what kind of meat my chickens eat. And give it to them myself

 

[greggy]

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Nothing really, though I think you took my statement out of context....Just my opinion about organic feeds and foods, and you know what they say about opinions

 

[Dennis1979]

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Well, I just don't like the idea of feeding chicken to chickens, that's how mad cow disease got started, i.e. by feeding beef products to beeves. I especially don't like the idea of feeding animal by products of any sort that come from industrial processing operations and I assume that's what's in the bags. I'm new at this and this is my thinking for now. I'm sure I have a lot of learning to do.

Dennis

 

[hensonly]

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Well, I just don't like the idea of feeding chicken to chickens, that's how mad cow disease got started, i.e. by feeding beef products to beeves. I especially don't like the idea of feeding animal by products of any sort that come from industrial processing operations and I assume that's what's in the bags. I'm new at this and this is my thinking for now. I'm sure I have a lot of learning to do.

Dennis

I thought the problem with mad cow came from some contaminated sheep brains ground up in the cow feed...anyway, as someone pointed out, chickens are carnivores, but when's the last time you heard of a free-range cow eating meat?? I think if we stick to ingredients that are things our chickens would eat if they encountered it on free range, we should be ok from a health standpoint... if you yourself feel funny feeding specifically chicken to your chickens, that's another consideration entirely. And I agree that there is a huge difference between meat and "meat by-products". But then, hot dogs have lots of meat by-products in them...which is why a lot of folks won't ingest hot dogs!

I'm glad you raised the point, as that's one thing I didn't do when I bought my chick starter - check the label for actual ingredients. Don't know why; I would never feed my dogs a food that I didn't know what was in it. I guess because my local feed stores only have one kind of non medicated feed, and one kind of medicated, and I don't know where I'd find something different if I wanted to. Guess I should check around...

Anyway, thanks for bringing up the question - gives me something else to think about!