Re: The Anti-BARFers strike back!/chicken freaks

[Guest guest]

Have you read Temple Grandin's book " Animals in Translation? "

She talks about the crazy things these overbred chickens are doing now

and how the industry doesn't seem to notice, things like killer rapist

roosters. She also noted that housepets are different now, not as

good as pets, like dogs that are supposed to be gentle breeds becoming

biters.

I think it's partly irresponsible breeding (for physical traits

not " character " ) and partly what Dr. Pottenger noticed about the

malnourished cats, the offspring are just not right.

It'd be interesting to get some crazy chickens from a confinement

operation and raise a couple of generations outdoors free-range and

see if they have the same problems.

Even in the so-called " free-range " operations, you don't know how

healthy they are. Some are just raised indoors with no cages, some

only have a small, dirt yard to go outdoors into, and some are kept

outside, but still have no access to grass and bugs. For the best

poultry you have to know the farmer and see the farm. My hens have it

the best because they have about 1/2 acre to roam, lots of plant life

and as many bugs as they can eat. It's not economically viable for

farmers to do that because the price of chicken is so low. The

commercial rags I've read claim that even " free range " they'll consume

90 % of their food as the chicken feed you give them. In the summer,

mine barely touch their feed. We have the same bag of food from

spring to winter.

Eggs from the health food store don't even compare. I've tried 5

brands of " free range " even " pastured " eggs and all but one have much

paler yolks than my hens' eggs. I'm soooo glad they've started laying

again as the one brand like my eggs is being discontinued - farmer got

hired by a B & B!

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> Some of the animal studies I've looked at on my article on vitamin A

> and fracture risk are done on broiler chickens to see what the needs

> are for the chickens. The feeds are fortified like crazy because the

> genetic freaks they are raising have such high needs for nutrients.

[Guest guest]

>Eggs from the health food store don't even compare. I've tried 5

>brands of " free range " even " pastured " eggs and all but one have much

>paler yolks than my hens' eggs.

It's disheartening in the extreme how generally mediocre even the

best available eggs are.

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[Guest guest]

It really is.

The best I've found so far are Nature's Yoke from Wegmans. All 4 brands the

health food store stocks are very pale, and the yolks are very small even in

the " XL " eggs.

-Lana

On 1/22/06, Idol <paul_idol@...> wrote:

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> >Eggs from the health food store don't even compare. I've tried 5

> >brands of " free range " even " pastured " eggs and all but one have much

> >paler yolks than my hens' eggs.

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> It's disheartening in the extreme how generally mediocre even the

> best available eggs are.

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