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Fishmeal is a valuable source of protein, up to 75%. It is fed to livestock
including chickens. But again, cost is a factor.
Ora
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:51:23 -0800, you wrote:
> Rex:
> >Not to break in on the good times, but while I'm quite familiar with adding
> >kelp to chicken feed, fish meal seems new. Do you know this for a fact?
> And,
> >is it known to help?
>
> Kirt: wrote:
> ..., yeah, fish meal
> gets (got) into chicken feed. In fact if there is too much the eggs take
> on a fishy flavor. I must add that this is one of the truly idiotic human
> inventions ...I may be dated
> a bit. Fish meal may be too costly these days to put into chicken feed, but
> it sure was, and probably is.
>
> Kirt, I do believe the food for livestock is 100% dependent on what is cheap
> and produces the most growth. I have had clients in both the chicken,
> turkey and beef industries. The chicken people when tomatoes were in season
> would "sun dry" them on an airport runway, almonds were used to hide the
> chicken coops. The almonds were shelled and the shells went into the
> chicken feed and nothing ever went to waste.
>
> Both the eggs and the chicken meat are strongly effected by the feed. One
> chicken company feeds the chicken marigolds in order to get the yellow skin
> tone. A friend of mine will not eat free range chicken because he swears he
> can taste the worms and other insects eaten by the chicken.
>
> It is interesting to note that at one point the chicken feed was given to
> the turkeys and many died. I believe chickens have been domestic for along
> time, but Turkeys only a handful of decades (my grandmother remembers the
> first Turkey run in Texas). It appears that the chickens have been breed to
> be very adaptable.
>
> Micaela
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