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Protein for chooks

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Technically, DEFRA don't allow it (to prevent diseases bred in intensively farmed meat crossing the species barrrier), but it is up to the individual really - chickens are omniverous and evolved to live on the jungle floor,eating frogs and other small rodents as well as other material while they forage.

 

The problem is that in the UK, chooks usually moult just as the weather is getting cold and the numbers of bugs (protein) in the garden declines massively. hence the need for extra protein.

 

I would only be happy feeding mine meat that I knew came from a reliable, free-range and non-medicated source (for instance, my girls get the cooked rind off my morning bacon). They will happily eat any mice and frogs they come across, but I don't feed them other meat. I often give them tuna though.

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My vet told me this when Babs had her weeks stay with them :roll:

the drying process removes every bit of goodness, except the 'shell'. She said it was only the keratin that remains, which was good for roughage but not much else. :roll:

 

Mine get rinsed tuna every so often. Plus lots of mealworms :wink:

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I had a look earlier. And, yes, lots of them seem to be chicken or chicken and something else (in jelly - yuck). In the end I couldn't quite bring myself to buy any so got some tuna (in springwater) instead. Typically, the one's that ate it are those that need it least.

 

Liz

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