chicken feed / wheat totaly off topic

Kristinn Leifsson istuner@islandia.is
Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:05:45 +0000


This is a wonderfully weird thread.

You know, I heard that somewhere, chicken were being fed ground animal 
remains and that in about 50 generations they would become meat- eating.

Kristinn




At 15:08 15.6.2000 +0000, you wrote:

>Well I don't give up. And I have been calling around today.
>
>The farmes run everything here in the same coporation.
>I called them and they said
>
>-"We don't sell weat seed in good years because then we use it for bread 
>but in bad years you can buy it for animals"
>
>??????!
>
>Another one said: -"you can buy half seed"
>I said to to make half seed you use whole seed? Can't I buy whole seed?
>
>??????????????
>
>Next one said -"You can't buy corn because of the import regulations. The 
>Norwigian goverment want us to sell more of our own produced weat"
>
>-"So I can't buy corn because you want me to buy weat and I cant buy weat?"
>
>-"Well there's a place you can buy second hand..."
>
>What do you call organisations like that in the states. Gangsters?
>
>Next problem is to slaughter them. Thats against the law to. I have to 
>take them to a place ten hours from here if I'm going to sell them for a 
>restuarant who wants them. And this is Norways second biggest city.
>But I'm not giving up.
>
>Brian
>My chicken is big silver wyandottes.
>We have to keep in touch.
>
>Ola Andersson
>
>
>>From: "Brian Trout" <btrout@desupernet.net>
>>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>>Subject: Re: Living i nowhere?? (Ola, re: chicken feed / wheat)
>>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:49:02 -0400
>>
>>Hi Ola,
>>
>>Nice to see there's another chicken owner on the list.  I can't remember a
>>time (in recent history) of more than a couple of weeks I haven't had at
>>least a couple of chickens.  I like them.  They're just about right for me.
>>They don't bite, they don't kick hard enough to break anything like a leg,
>>and with the right setup, they almost look after themselves.  And when one
>>dies, I don't need a major piece of farm equipment to deal with the carcass.
>>
>>You mentioned not being able to buy 'weat' seed.  If you're thinking of the
>>same thing we would call 'wheat' in the US, and you can buy it as feed, you
>>might even try planting some of that.  I don't know what they do to it in
>>order to sell it for feed.  I suspect they might not do much but dry it.
>>It
>>probably wouldn't work if they ground it in any way, but I don't know why
>>they would.  (Whole wheat berries are good for chickens, and they probably
>>keep better than ground meal.)  It might be worth a try.  I don't know if
>>you might need some sort of treatment or inoculant to help with germination
>>or virus type problems.  But, hey, feed is cheap.  Might be fun just to see
>>what might happen.
>>
>>Good luck.
>>
>>Brian Trout
>>Quarryville, PA
>>btrout@desupernet.net
>
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