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mmattockx:

--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on April 14, 2022, 01:39:41 pm ---We finally quit because somebody told us that feeding raw chicken to other chicken can spread disease.  I have my doubts about that, if the original chicken was healthy. 
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This is true, but only if the original animal had a disease. This practice is how BSE (mad cow disease) got widespread. The feed people used to use waste cattle parts as part of the protein meal they fed the other animals and the infected pieces would infect others eating it. That is no longer done as a precaution to prevent disease spreading. I expect the idea applies to chickens and pigs the same as cattle. It is also why you should never use human waste to fertilize gardens or plants that will be used as food for people, it is a great way to spread disease through a population.

Aside from the disease issue I see no moral issue with feeding chicken to chickens. They are cannibals on their own and have no moral or ethical concerns of their own about it.


Mark

bjrogg:
Thinking right now avian bird flu Might be a concern to.

We always just disposed of the dead ones.

Yeah Marc we never raised hogs but I’ve heard they will eat their own.

Bjrogg

BowEd:
When I was a kid on the farm helping my dad we raised hogs farrow to finish too.After weaning young hogs are confined and fed to fatten for the market.There was a thing called a tail biter to look out for.One that would eat the tails off of others.The taste of blood does things to an animal.It was best to get that paticular hog out of there.This expedites because of the confinement arena they are in.
Same is true if a lame or wounded pig is allowed to be with the others.They can and will kill and eat him.They need to be oversaw every day.
Once by our community an older fella by himself fell over and past out from a heart attack while feeding hogs.The hogs ate him.All they found was bits of clothing.Once blood is shed this can happen.
If you've ever seen 2 roosters fight you'll realize the winning rooster has no remorse or sympathy even if his opponent is whipped.He'll mutilate and kill him.Being confined again expedites this too.
All true and factual.
The difference between humans and animals is that we have or should have a conscience.

Digital Caveman:

--- Quote from: BowEd on April 14, 2022, 04:27:03 pm ---Once by our community an older fella by himself fell over and past out from a heart attack while feeding hogs.The hogs ate him.All they found was bits of clothing.Once blood is shed this can happen.

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Gruesome, but I'd believe it.  A friend of mine told a story of how there was a murder in her town many years ago.  They couldn't find the body, it eventually came out that the killer feed it to the hogs.

As to the original question, chickens have no morals, don't worry about it.

Buckskinner:
Hogs and chickens will eat anything.  We had about 300 feeder hogs in a confinement barn when I was a kid.  In winter the starlings would go in the barn when it got cold, me and my brother would run down the aisle and close all vent doors where they flew in and BB's would fly... Many dozens of starlings would fall into the hog pens, we would try and get them but most were eaten very quickly.  After a while the hogs would know what was up and be watching for birds to fall.

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