tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post6416270405862072103..comments2024-03-24T19:45:21.933-04:00Comments on Natural Chicken Keeping: Just Add Meat - Chickens are NOT VegetariansBulldogmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04773653470602929019noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-18908762768675305612022-02-04T01:34:46.340-05:002022-02-04T01:34:46.340-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Fahad Hassanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730660287511061811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-82550048075924699712020-05-18T10:36:30.698-04:002020-05-18T10:36:30.698-04:00Chickens are omnivores. They're dinosaurs! lik...Chickens are omnivores. They're dinosaurs! like the origin of all birds. Few birds eat only grain. Some birds that could be considered largely vegan are: geese, parrots, doves, quail, sparrows, waxwings and finches.But they periodically eat insects. Good article! <br />In Delaware, turkey vultures dominate the skies. They are the garbage collectors of road kill. Rarely are dead animals pick up by the state roads people. The bodies are gone in a few days. Nature balances out things I suppose.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529794203843098580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-50066971653593940362018-05-23T12:27:50.469-04:002018-05-23T12:27:50.469-04:00Thank you so much for the useful info and for clea...Thank you so much for the useful info and for clearing up the "meat"issue for me lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-72403595963960296342017-08-07T08:58:26.283-04:002017-08-07T08:58:26.283-04:00There is no such thing as a vegetarian chicken. Th...There is no such thing as a vegetarian chicken. Thanks for this post and links. Always wondered what the true reason for the poultry industry pushing that idea was. <br />Now I know... And it unfortunately makes sense.... <br />Gotta love Big Ag. }:(<br />Cheers to you and to natural and sustainable agriculture.Lila Hwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09118209926817453542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-39539708110788133092017-05-12T21:38:32.910-04:002017-05-12T21:38:32.910-04:00Raw pork *should* be fine. You may not want to eat...Raw pork *should* be fine. You may not want to eat their eggs raw for a while and keep an eye out for any signs of illness, but generally chickens don't get food poisoning the way we do, and by the time they lay eggs they have filtered out the nasties that pigs carry. Bulldogmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773653470602929019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-64156428883439973792017-05-12T13:42:26.687-04:002017-05-12T13:42:26.687-04:00Is raw pork ok? I was trimming fat and threw it in...Is raw pork ok? I was trimming fat and threw it in the chicken scraps but then began obsessing, I'm sure in the wild they would chow down! This was what I was researching when I found your site ;)skmkinganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17801518217592404661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-37293548450652102582017-04-10T15:53:53.748-04:002017-04-10T15:53:53.748-04:00OMG! That little gift was TOO FUNNY!!! Can't w...OMG! That little gift was TOO FUNNY!!! Can't wait to use it myself! Thanks for sharing everything!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-53530277037820141242017-01-22T09:22:21.964-05:002017-01-22T09:22:21.964-05:00Love this article, will be sharing with my family ...Love this article, will be sharing with my family so they understand why I feed my chickens meat!!! Thask you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16550279908574204580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-51088936263399728752016-11-25T11:16:15.339-05:002016-11-25T11:16:15.339-05:00Thanks for the useful article and I LOVE the littl...Thanks for the useful article and I LOVE the little something!Quilterhillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02411616765141325955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-10731990359495607022016-05-18T17:48:07.880-04:002016-05-18T17:48:07.880-04:00Love this article and all of the responses. A very...Love this article and all of the responses. A very polite comeback from Mr Anonymous too. Very informative and exactly what I initially thought. A bird is a bird is a bird. Let's just eat whatever gets in our way! ☺Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12298537757876170946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-28100037988121712462015-04-04T03:01:01.137-04:002015-04-04T03:01:01.137-04:00Very nice blog and useful too, i also provide anim...Very nice blog and useful too, i also provide <a href="http://www.anfomedindia.com/" rel="nofollow">animal feed supplement</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18365294105533351170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-62025046078862571422015-04-04T02:57:08.755-04:002015-04-04T02:57:08.755-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18365294105533351170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-2965978539409866562015-02-28T00:39:03.959-05:002015-02-28T00:39:03.959-05:00nice blog !! i was looking for blogs related of an...nice blog !! i was looking for blogs related of <a href="http://octalifesciences.com" rel="nofollow">animal feed supplement</a> . then i found this blog, this is really nice and interested to read.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02571472343005042679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-1133729421533420392014-11-15T19:02:26.957-05:002014-11-15T19:02:26.957-05:00My girls eat anything that doesn't eat them fi...My girls eat anything that doesn't eat them first. I've watched them grab spiders as big as their heads, frogs---my rooster ate a 10" snake head first without killing it! Sluuuuuuuuuuurp!!! Just like a piece of pasta!<br /><br />I also feed them back at least one of their own eggs per day, with shell. Sometimes cooked, sometimes raw. I collect the eggs each morning, so I haven't had any trouble with them going after the eggs prior to me getting them---but they love, love, love raw egg.<br /><br />In actuality, they don't really care for the "crumbles" that i get from the feed store---my girls are free range and have eaten pretty much anything/everything that they can get their beaks on! They also like fish! I have grilled up a couple pieces for myself and then the girls will scrawscrawscraw until I share.<br /><br />This idea that birds are vegetarian? Really? Just because they are domesticated? They are BIRDS. Just like crows, vultures, or any other bird. They are PREDATORS in their own right---has anybody informed eagles and hawks that they can't fish or eat roadkill? Just sayin'. A bird is a bird is a bird. My girls are fat, happy and lay beautiful strong eggs. They run and play and are just all around healthy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-7444546354061893392014-09-04T08:00:50.825-04:002014-09-04T08:00:50.825-04:00Thank you so much for this article. I have only be...Thank you so much for this article. I have only been keeping chickens for two years so i am aware of how much i have to learn. all the books i read before i got my chooks said don't give them meat....then my hens surprised me. let me explain;<br /> Last spring my husband had the boys round to watch the rugby one Sunday morning, so i made cooked breakfast for them and laid it out on the coffee table in the back room. it was a lovely sunny morning and they all sat round enjoying the match on tv, French doors open with a warm breeze gently wafting in, tucking into sausage bacon eggs and mugs of coffee.<br />My ladies were happily pecking around the garden until they caught the scent of scrummy brunch - then cheeky Audrey popped in grabbed a sausage off the table and went running out into the garden again where all the girls squabbled for a share! <br />I read your article yesterday on making tasty treats, so i had a go at making a high protein snack with liver, meat fat herbs and meusli etc. i put it in a yogurt pot and froze it overnight. i gave it to the girls this morning and they were very happy with it! <br />Thank you again for your continued words of wisdom<br /><br />kind regards<br /><br />Linds<br />UKAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10289484467184713970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-1768796043842248842014-07-04T19:17:30.455-04:002014-07-04T19:17:30.455-04:00I fully agree with THE REALITY OF CHICKENS.
By the...I fully agree with THE REALITY OF CHICKENS.<br />By the way just love THE LITTLE SOMETHING u sent him so bloody well done <br /> THANK YOU.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-35615108263741787032013-12-01T12:50:08.269-05:002013-12-01T12:50:08.269-05:00Well, Anonymous... we can see that you have an opi...Well, Anonymous... we can see that you have an opinion! And an interesting one it is! Though I'm not sure that you actually *read* this article.<br /><br />Let me reiterate - Chickens will eat ANY CARCASS THEY FIND - that includes those of cows, goats, sheep... in fact just the other day a group of my birds jumped the fence and made their way under a barn door to get to the deer carcass in there - my husband shot it, I butchered it and the chickens cleaned up the bones and ate the brain. If you can hold on for just a minute, I'll run out to the chicken yard and inform them that they actually don't eat large animals because you said so.<br /><br />OK - I'm back (thanks for waiting). My chickens want to know why it is "wrong" to feed them turkey? Although I never mentioned turkey specifically in the above article, you seem fairly focused on that. I have news for you... if one of my chickens were attacked by a predator and died in the chicken yard, my other chickens would eat as much of it as they could before I learned of the chicken's passing. Yes - chickens will quite happily eat a bird they roosted with the night before. They would be over the moon with joy if a turkey were thoughtful enough to expire in their presence.<br /><br />You state, "So for those of you feeding feed with added by products are probably feeding other nasty things to your flocks like: hormones or steroids." So true! And thank goodness commercial chicken feed in the US can't get FDA approval if it contains any ruminant animal matter... because then they wouldn't have to add: Wheat middlings, corn distillers dried grains with solubles, corn (GMO), soybean meal (which has naturally occurring estrogen - a HORMONE), L-Lysine, DL-Methionine, calcium carbonate, Sodium Bentonite, salt, ferrous carbonate, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, Manganous oxide, manganese sulfate, zinc oxide, zinc sulfate, Cobalt Carbonate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, vitamin a supplement, vitamin d3 supplement, vitamin e supplement, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, niacin supplement, choline chloride, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, biotin, vitamin b12 supplement, propionic acid...<br /><br />(Oh yes - that is a real ingredient list from a very popular brand of chicken feed - I added some little thoughts in parenthesis. Sounds delish, no?) Chicken feed manufacturers have to ADD the vitamins and minerals found in meat because they're not allowed to use... meat.<br /><br />I'm terribly sorry if the reality of my chickens' lifestyle has been damaging to your sensibilities. If they seem like immoral, cannibalistic gluttons, well... it's because they are. Too bad I didn't get your sweet message earlier - I could have sent the wonderful Pastor that came by this morning out to the chicken yard to speak to them sternly.<br /><br />And as far as your statement that "The RIGHT info can do better for the people than a bunch of misguided junk that was thought up from someone who does NOT have a clue," I TOTALLY agree! Well stated, my sweet, misguided Anonymous. And <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz2jbCJXkpA" rel="nofollow">HERE'S</a> a little something to thank you for such kind words.Bulldogmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773653470602929019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-15768037402140335002013-11-30T22:16:11.981-05:002013-11-30T22:16:11.981-05:00I ask why not? What is so wrong about it? Personal...I ask why not? What is so wrong about it? Personally I feel that MOST animal feed is junk. Who wants to eat soy beans and corn all the time with processed vitamins. But that's just me. I make my own feed AND I feed leftover meat (but not the dark part of the turkey-they dont like that part....not sure why actually) which my girls do well on. To each their own I always say. Oh and btw, have you seen hens eat chicks? Pretty gruesome. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01670595664184173393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-43599717573701912082013-11-30T14:30:11.909-05:002013-11-30T14:30:11.909-05:00Ok they might be meat eaters ,but feeding your chi...Ok they might be meat eaters ,but feeding your chickens turkey is just messed up. Chickens will eat bugs,mice,moles and frogs,but NOT table meats and is not in their normal diets and feeding them turkey meat is just wrong.Also chickens do not eat goats,sheep or cows and you should never find animal byproducts in a good feed. So for those of you feeding feed with added by products are probably feeding other nasty things to your flocks like: hormones or steroids. An education is important ,but so IS THE RIGHT FACTS OF THE MATTER. The RIGHT info can do better for the people than a bunch of misguided junk that was thought up from someone who does NOT have a clue. If you want to include some of their natural insects(meats) them buy them hen treats or breed your own meal worms or black solder fly larvae, but for heaven sakes feed the RIGHT meats not your tables turkey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-46725452333226956302013-05-18T21:56:58.660-04:002013-05-18T21:56:58.660-04:00just catching up, can they think of more ways to m...just catching up, can they think of more ways to make us sick? they must be just making things up as they go along. here, we are waiting for the arrival of the cicada's i heard they taste good but I'll just let the girls eat them and I'll eat their eggs! They tasted the same after the mouse hunt!<br />thanks for sharing!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16263092970383782794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-89845068402034289482013-05-10T00:52:07.048-04:002013-05-10T00:52:07.048-04:00Wow, what an enlightening piece. Thank you for ex...Wow, what an enlightening piece. Thank you for explaining!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12964457890411355967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-18894677963461778212013-05-04T08:38:43.487-04:002013-05-04T08:38:43.487-04:00Great article. Very interesting. I skip the cat fo...Great article. Very interesting. I skip the cat food with veggies. I have offered our cat spinach, carrots, etc. 'free choice' and he turns his nose up at them. Our chickens however are true omnivores. Thanks. Sharing!Lisa | Fresh Eggs Daily®https://www.blogger.com/profile/16766604467302444189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-82345123624854963462013-05-03T23:50:11.903-04:002013-05-03T23:50:11.903-04:00I wondered about that silliness. Now, I know.
Wha...I wondered about that silliness. Now, I know.<br /><br />What gets me are cat foods touting that they have vegetables (Cats are carnivores) or dog foods with vitamin C (dogs make their own vitamin C). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934326041423690709.post-7565409235290387032013-05-03T22:03:19.040-04:002013-05-03T22:03:19.040-04:00Great article Leigh. I love Kaussandra's Nake...Great article Leigh. I love Kaussandra's Naked Necks AND her photography! I do feed my chickens meat. They've helped themselves to lizards, mice and even a squirrel that had the misfortune of falling in the donkey's water. (The donkey pulled it out and the chickens had a feast.) I'm wondering now though if my organically fed beef is being fed some chicken poo? I think I better find some grass fed beef!Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01031014249258852858noreply@blogger.com