Re: Meat?


"OmManiPadmeOmelet" <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <dmg23o$oka$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mark M" <m@xxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I read the other day on the omlet egloo site (just browsing) that
>> you should NOT give chickens meat. They state it in CAPS.
>>
>>
>> I have heard lots on here say they give them meat.
>>
>> I have given mine th eodd spag bol left overs, and they seem ok.
>>
>> Dog biscuits give them the shits, but i was told about that before hand.
>> They are largely meat.
>>
>>
>> So whats the answer then?
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>>
>
> Mine love meat.
> I give them meat scraps at every opportunity, and whenever I clean out
> the freezer of freezer burned stuff, the eat that up too.
>
> It's a myth that feeding them meat will turn them into cannibals.
>
> Overcrowding is what does that.
> --
> Om.
>
> "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack
> Nicholson

I have to agree with this. I've been feeding my few Rhode Island Red layers
fish heads and guts for many years with no discernible negative effects. No
cannibalism at all. They seem to lay more eggs when they're getting some
animal protein.

Garrett Fulton


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