Oyster shell...vegetarian?

[7L Farm]

Thank you all for the helpful suggestions and for not willfully ignoring my posts. I appreciate the alternatives to oyster shells.

Again I repeat, I AM NOT TRYING TO MAKE MY CHICKENS VEGETARIAN. I have chosen to stop responding to posts from people who choose to willfully misunderstand my point in order to what? I don't know...work out some aggression against vegetarians I guess. As I repeated numerous times, I am simply trying to eliminate slaughter byproducts from my chickens' diets. It is ridiculous to think that vegans/vegetarians have a problem with animals eating other animals. That is a part of nature. I have a problem with the way animals are treated in our farming system and choose not to participate. My chickens can catch their own food however they'd like and I will feed them healthy supplements (just as I do my cats and dogs - who do eat meat, btw, because it is necessary for them to live).

Again, thank you to all those who took the time to actually read my posts and respond

There's no problem thing is people can make decision . Animals live on instinct. Some animals are browsers some eat meat. Can't change that. Chickens eat anything. It will be hard to control this if you range them. Good luck on whatever your trying to accomplish .

 

[angel8035]

My chickens can catch their own food however they'd like

Some animals are browsers some eat meat. Can't change that. Chickens eat anything. It will be hard to control this if you range them.

 

[Chris09]

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Your first 3 post lead people to believe that you are trying to raise your chickens as they are vegetarians. Maybe if you would have clarified your full intent in your first post there would be less people telling you that chickens are not vegetarians.


Chris

 

[angel8035]

Your first 3 post lead people to believe that you are trying to raise your chickens as they are vegetarians. Maybe if you would have clarified your full intent in your first post there would be less people telling you that chickens are not vegetarians.


Chris

Chris, in the three excerpts you posted (the parts you didn't bold), it said twice that I was not referring to bugs and natural forage when I was talking about feed. I think the word vegetarian being used at all is what people are focusing on and not the rest of what I said.

 

[crchickens]

Michelle, I am not sure if you would consider yogurt acceptable, but my chickens LOVE it!! We adopted 6 chickens and they had some loose stools when we first go them, and I added yogurt for the probiotics, and their stools cleared right up. Just a thought. I would think that the calcium in yogurt will be acceptable. I did not read all of this, so I am not sure where you stand on dairy products.