article including remarks about free range chicken

Ranee Mueller said:

We plan on getting ducks, geese and turkeys in a year or two.

What - no guinea fowl!?

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Greg

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Dee Randall said:

Probably you won't have the answer, or perhaps no one does, but I'm
curious
about feeding eggshell to chickens, only because isn't that where the
problem lies with the spongiform diseases; i.e., feeding animal products
to
animal?

Chickens shouldn't have their own meat given to them, and they
shouldn't be given raw eggs, for two different reasons. Raw chicken
meat, because they can get disease, but really only if the bird they are
eating is diseased, but mostly because they will get a taste for it, and
chickens can become cannibal. That's why you need to stop them pecking
(not the normal pecking order sorting out stuff, but actually getting
blood), because once they taste the flesh and blood, they will peck a
bird to death and go on to another one. I don't know about cooked, but
I see no reason to give it to them. You can give them leftover meat you
cook, but I figure they eat all those bugs, so it's not an issue.

The eggs, they can eat just fine, in fact, we'll give them a hard
boiled egg or two, crushed up with the shell, for extra protein and
calcium. Again, you don't want it to be too recognizeable as egg to
them, because they'll start pecking open their own eggs and eating them,
and you won't get any egg. We crush the eggs/eggshells really well, so
they don't see them as eggs.

Regards,
Ranee

Gee, Ranee, I didn't expect such an expert answer. I really enjoyed reading
your information. Thank you for taking the time to write this.
My appreciation,
Dee Dee

Dee Randall said:

"Ranee Mueller" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Dee Randall said:

Probably you won't have the answer, or perhaps no one does, but I'm
curious
about feeding eggshell to chickens, only because isn't that where the
problem lies with the spongiform diseases; i.e., feeding animal products
to
animal?

Chickens shouldn't have their own meat given to them, and they
shouldn't be given raw eggs, for two different reasons. Raw chicken
meat, because they can get disease, but really only if the bird they are
eating is diseased, but mostly because they will get a taste for it, and
chickens can become cannibal. That's why you need to stop them pecking
(not the normal pecking order sorting out stuff, but actually getting
blood), because once they taste the flesh and blood, they will peck a
bird to death and go on to another one. I don't know about cooked, but
I see no reason to give it to them. You can give them leftover meat you
cook, but I figure they eat all those bugs, so it's not an issue.

The eggs, they can eat just fine, in fact, we'll give them a hard
boiled egg or two, crushed up with the shell, for extra protein and
calcium. Again, you don't want it to be too recognizeable as egg to
them, because they'll start pecking open their own eggs and eating them,
and you won't get any egg. We crush the eggs/eggshells really well, so
they don't see them as eggs.

Regards,
Ranee

Gee, Ranee, I didn't expect such an expert answer. I really enjoyed reading
your information. Thank you for taking the time to write this.
My appreciation,

Yes, very enjoyable and informative. And from reading it I realized
that chickens are even wierder than I thought...

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Greg