Banned Antibiotics Found in Poultry Products

Me, three on the feather meal. It is OK for fertilizer but I don't like feeding it to other animals.

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And unpalatable. Have you ever tried eating feathers? I have. It's utterly revolting, like trying to eat hair.

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Actually it's pretty much Keratin,the same as hair

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Keratin refers to a family of fibrous structural proteins. Keratin is the key of structural material making up the outer layer of human skin. It is also the key structural component of hair and nails. Keratin monomers assemble into bundles to form intermediate filaments, which are tough and insoluble and form strong unmineralized tissues found in reptiles, birds, amphibians, and mammals. The only other biological matter known to approximate the toughness of keratinized tissue is chitin.[1][2][3]

Keratin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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We were visiting a rancher once who had some calves he was feed out - they were eating chicken manure. I couldn't believe it and asked him if I it really was. He said it was. It seems it was some kind of trial and he was taking part.

Since we started raising broilers (100 per year - increasing to 150 or 200 this year), I've seen how easy it is and started seriously questioning whether or not all the claims regarding antibiotics and hormones are true.

Our birds are HUGE at 8 weeks, and still larger than grocery store birds at 6 weeks. We don't give hormones and the only antibiotics they get are the tiny little doses in their drinking water when they are new chicks. We could probably eliminate those antibiotics.

I don't understand why anybody would go to the trouble of hormones and antibiotics unless the conditions they are raising the chickens in are truly appalling. How could a place raising chickens under those conditions even pass inspection?

I wonder how much of this stuff is just hype.

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There are NO hormones used in the feeding of broilers and market hogs in the USA.

This has become a "truth" since it has been repeated so much that the lay person has no idea what the truth really happens to be.

I can remember 40 years ago some people were feeding out cattle on chicken manure. It isn't anything new.

And neither is feeding feather meal, as that has been going on longer then 40 years. I know that because back in the late 60's nI was working at a place that cooked the feathers form chicken and turkeys, and that was fed back to at least the turkeys at that time maybe also the chickens. But turkeys for sure.

It was evidently something that hadn't been done in this area - as it was 'experimental' so they say.

If it wasn't new, it is certainly yucky -