poshpolish
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- Nov 19, 2017
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Hi everyone! This is probably a bit of a dumb question, but hear me out, I guess?
I'd really like to get chickens some day. Probably ex-battery hens and/or some free roosters from local classifieds as I see a lot of those. Not right now because I live in an apartment, but sometime in distant the future. I don't have an awful lot of experience with chickens aside from when I was young and my family and I lived in the country and raised pigs and cornish x for meat, but I think I know the basics aside from diet pretty much which leads to the burning question in my mind.. can chickens be vegan?
I don't expect to have "truly" vegan chickens as they're animals and ideally, they'd be free ranging and eating lots of goodies outside and I'm alright with that, but I mean if I fed something homemade like Garden Betty's whole grain chicken feed (minus oyster shell, feed shells and eggs back to hens instead) or similar in addition to table scraps, garden veggies and bugs and such they snap up while outside, would that be sufficient or do you actually have to add animal protein to their food as well? I'd be fine with doing that, too, if I had to, but if it's possible not to, that'd be my preference.
Sorry if I sound like an idiot.
I'd really like to get chickens some day. Probably ex-battery hens and/or some free roosters from local classifieds as I see a lot of those. Not right now because I live in an apartment, but sometime in distant the future. I don't have an awful lot of experience with chickens aside from when I was young and my family and I lived in the country and raised pigs and cornish x for meat, but I think I know the basics aside from diet pretty much which leads to the burning question in my mind.. can chickens be vegan?
I don't expect to have "truly" vegan chickens as they're animals and ideally, they'd be free ranging and eating lots of goodies outside and I'm alright with that, but I mean if I fed something homemade like Garden Betty's whole grain chicken feed (minus oyster shell, feed shells and eggs back to hens instead) or similar in addition to table scraps, garden veggies and bugs and such they snap up while outside, would that be sufficient or do you actually have to add animal protein to their food as well? I'd be fine with doing that, too, if I had to, but if it's possible not to, that'd be my preference.
Sorry if I sound like an idiot.