I hope that most of us are smarter and more discerning than that.Every story we don't like is fake. Everything we like is real. Thus ends the great endeavor to learn and become better.
The subject was risk of contracting the bird flu virus. Modern commercial chicken production occurs in enclosed houses. Backyard flocks are outside. The bird flu is most likely to be spread by birds. Which chickens are most likely to come in contact with birds carrying the virus? Those inside an enclosed building or those outside in a free range situation? The free range flock has more chance of exposure to infected wild birds.You watch too much news if you think like this.
A backyard, free range flock is exponentially better in every way.
Thats a nice theory but not reality. Burd flu is spread from bird to bird, outside birds are no less vulnerable. Like mentioned, they could be more vulnerable because of exposure. Just because they peck off the ground means nothing.I hear what your saying. I just think birds that are able to get all the nutrients from the earth are less likley to contract or get sick from it. Just as any other species and sickness. The healthier you are when you are exposed, the less it will effect you.
Gain of function is another story, completely.
Thats a nice theory but not reality. Burd flu is spread from bird to bird, outside birds are no less vulnerable. Like mentioned, they could be more vulnerable because of exposure. Just because they peck off the ground means nothing.
Rumen microbes can take the urea (nitrogenous 'waste' product in poultry manure), split off ammonium groups and attach them to carbohydrate chains from grains, etc. in the ration to manufacture amino acids, which are then incorporated into microbial proteins which are then digested and absorbed in the abomasum and intestines.What nutritional needs is the chicken litter meant to meet? I have heard of this but know nothing about it.
Our cows will do the same thing. We had 2 loads dumped in the "catch lot" about 1-2 acres, and did not shut the gate to the big pasture at the time. The cows came in and were eating it like it was candy... There were rolls of hay in the pasture not 200 ft away, and at the time they also had a couple of protein tubs since the hay was not that great. We were trying to feed some of it out so had good and crummy bales out for them to work on. They climbed the pile and just ate whatever they wanted. The next day I locked them out of there because they were making a mess of it and we wanted to spread it on the field across the street as soon as the rye was cut. They had really gone to town on it, and stood at the gate hollering, wanting back in there for a couple days.i saw a guy here had a few semi loads dumped in his field. It sat for a few months and his cows were all over it everyday eating it.
Wouldn't drink it if it were the milk cows eating it, even if it smelled like Hershey's syrup added to the milk...Did they give chocolate milk afterwards Jan?
Thanks, that's interesting but way over my head!Rumen microbes can take the urea (nitrogenous 'waste' product in poultry manure), split off ammonium groups and attach them to carbohydrate chains from grains, etc. in the ration to manufacture amino acids, which are then incorporated into microbial proteins which are then digested and absorbed in the abomasum and intestines.
It's been nearly 50 years since I took Feeds & Feeding in undergrad, but IIRC, at that time, nutritionists were saying you could incorporate litter as part of a ration in levels high enough to supply 1/3 of the protein component of the total ration.
So then is it fair to say chickens aren't inefficient feeders passing undigested protein through their system but instead form nitrogen which the cows turn into protein?Rumen microbes can take the urea (nitrogenous 'waste' product in poultry manure), split off ammonium groups and attach them to carbohydrate chains from grains, etc. in the ration to manufacture amino acids, which are then incorporated into microbial proteins which are then digested and absorbed in the abomasum and intestines.
It's been nearly 50 years since I took Feeds & Feeding in undergrad, but IIRC, at that time, nutritionists were saying you could incorporate litter as part of a ration in levels high enough to supply 1/3 of the protein component of the total ration.
Maybe it's not their efficiency so much as the fact they just eat so much? Them feathered critters never seem to stop eating even free range.So then is it fair to say chickens aren't inefficient feeders passing undigested protein through their system but instead form nitrogen which the cows turn into protein?
I've been doing some internet searching trying to learn how an animal as feed efficient as a chicken can have manure so high in protein and not finding anything.