Safe Feed......

[chicken-wish]

Here is a Hub I wrote. It doesn't go into super detail on everything but its a starting point. If you Google chicken garden or what to plant for chickens and even making your own chicken feed, you will pull up a lot of great information.

Look at the back of your chicken feed sack and that will give you a starting point for making a more complete ration. I am working on making an organic, packaged chicken food for my ladies. To feed during the winter, mostly.

This winter has been so good they only got a bit of whole oats, the rest was pretty much free-ranged and scraps and fish.

http://isadorapandora.hubpages.com/hub/Ways-to-Feed-Chickens-Cheaply

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to thank CluckyJay for the great advice on feed. I checked out your link and I loved it!

The best part is that my DH seems to be happy with this idea too. It might take a couple of years to have this set up completely, but it will be worth it.

 

[chicken-wish]

It's ok, I wasn't taking it like that.

GMO's can be detected through blood tests. My doctors wouldn't give that kind of blood test (mostly because they don't seem to believe that foods may have something to do with it). I had to take the matter into my own hands and start experimenting with my foods. I started to feel a little better when I got off of processed foods in gerneral, but the conidition wouldn't go away still on regular fruits and veggies. Finnaly I started eating organic foods and the condition disapeared almost emediatly, but would return if I started eating the cheaper nonorganic fruits and veggies or proessed foods. Now I have reached a point where I can eat some of the regular fruits and veggies here and there or in short spurts, but I need to watch how much. When I started using nonchemicalized cleaning and hygene products, my stress levels went down even more and now I'm doing very good, I'm happy and have tons of energy. My DH has lost over 70lbs. on this diet over the last 10 months or so (and that's not staying on a perfectly controlled diet either), and he's still losing.

As far as knowing what foods can be found with GMO products, the FDA doesn't regulate the lables on our foods to let us know if there are any GMO products in them, even when the public has demanded this in the past. So there is no way to know, unless you buy organic. Other countries were able to pass this as a law so the ppl could choose what they wanted to buy. Unfortunatly it's not just in the fruits and veggies either, it's in all the meats and dairy products too now.

This is why I'm looking for alternate ways to feed my chickens besides organic feed from the market, since it's so expensive.

Edited to add this:

I've decided to explain in short detail what a GMO really is, just so there's no confusion. I won't name the actuall corprations behind this either.
What is done with a seed is the genetic codes are altered to withstand pesticides and weed killers, now the farmers can spray thier crops with out harming the plant they are trying to grow. If an insect tries to take a bite out the plant it dies. The bee's that are taking pollen from these plants are dying too because of the poisons in the pollen and the necter. The plant soaks up whatever water or poison that it's sprayed with and it remains impregnated. The plant was oringinally engineered to need less spraying against pests, but there was a problem with it and the plant ended up needing to be sprayed more just to survive. Now there are even some seeds that will only germinate when sprayed with poisons. Realy the only alteration of the plants is there abilty to thrive when sprayed with weed killers and pesticides, otherwise there is no difference when looking at them compared together. When then these plants are harvested they end up in our grocery stores, and when we buy them, no matter how much we wash and scrub them the poison is still inside the plant.

The animal industry was affected too. The food industries started making cattle, hogs and chickens, in the comercial industries feed only corn that was genetically modified, making the meat, milk and/or eggs contaminated as well. They stared making growth hormones that would make the bodies of the animals bigger so they would produce more and make more money but, it affected the meat and milk in a negative way, that is rumored to cause cancer, obiesity, heart disease, diabetes, malecular degeneration, artritis (and the list goes on) in much larger percentages. The the huge multi national food corporations, have refused to test thier products over long term periods to ensure they are safe for the public, but many members of the FDA are also employed by these companies now, wich is why they have not enforced the long term testing of GMO products.

I don't know if this helps. I think it will atleast cover the basics of the GMO and what it is.

I forgot to mention that the public has been fighting this for years and have reduced the number of GMO crops to only four types: Corn, Soy, Canola and . Now the main way to remain GMO free is to stay away from prossesed foods and only eat whole foods such as fresh produce, particularly organic. I hope this makes sense.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Quote: How about showing us your source for these "facts", because as near as I can tell they are all false

 

[chicken-wish]

Please forgive me, as I'm not the greatest at explaining things and I feel I might be digging myself into a hole by trying to explain this in miner details. My info isn't current past four years ago now, and the words I wrote may not be verbatum and the GMO's may not be the true reason for my illnesses because I could not get the blood test for it but, I've chosen to believe that GMO's, pesticides and an obvious one would be MSG are all what I believe to have caused it in the first place, since it's that type of food that I got away from and I automatically started to heal and feel fine ever since.
Here is were I got my sources: We don't have tv and I've had to do my research through the documentaries on netflix, called: Food, Inc. (08), Food Matters (08), The Future of Food (04). These are from 2008 at the latest and I have not found newer sources at this point. After some browsing through the documentaries for a more current study on this (as this made me realize that I havn't been able to find reports on this from earlier than four years ago now, and I still havn't found anything more current) last night I found another one (also from 2008) called The Beautiful Truth that mentioned something that the others had not. They said that the ppl are winning against these large corporations and they have managed to stop the corporations from infecting the meat and dairy industry, wich rebuke's what I said earlier about the meat and dairy market. I don't know why the other three documentaries didn't mention that. I'm going to try to do some online searching for more current data, since I would love to see where this has gone by now after watching this last documentary.

BWY, Please don't think I'm trying to pursuade any one into believing anything, I'm fully aware that each person is entitled to his /her own choice and opinion. I'm mearly trying to help the understaning of GMO's to the ppl who don't know about them. My illnesses in the past have made me change my diet and look into it further, since my doctors didn't seem to know anything, and I couldn't afford any more bills. My illnesses occured around seven years ago, I was obtaining any info on food I could through my mother, who was researching some of this in small detail for me so that I would have some where to start then I took from there (I also didn't have internet until a few years later wich was when we got netflix).

I'm very sorry if I confused anyone, it was not my intention.


I'm not going to post anything more about this because it has made me look foolish since I have an inabilty to explains things properly anyway and I think people have taken it the wrong way. Also, it has wandered too far away from the original subject of feeding more organic feeds for a cheaper price.