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