" Jill" <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Christina Websell wrote:
>> "Jill" <mail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:689bh0F2s56mbU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Your view and experience is in a small number of birds and breeds. No
>>> criticism, but only useful for your birds.
>>>
>>> What was written above is not my "view" but well researched science
>>> in productive strains of pure breeds, where it was observed long
>>> before the hybrids were created.
>>>
>>> My warning was to others who have strong productive pure breeds, or
>>> hybrids, for whom an extra third of wheat in their diet is clinically
>>> proven to be a bad thing to do.
>>>
>>> I respect your choice to provide the husbandry you choose for your
>>> own birds.
>>>
>> so did all chickens die early in life before layers pellets were
>> invented as the "complete food" then? I don't think they did.
>>
>> Tina
>
> Compound feeds have been around for a long time, a very long time. They
> used high meat protein feeds until very recent years.
> High productivity is associated with lower tolerance to high wheat and
> associated feeds.
That may be so, but high productivity comes with its own rewards, like egg
peritonitis. Mine carry along happily, living to 10 years plus without me
feeding them for maximum production.
Did you know that Appenzellers were discovered living in a remote valley
in
Switzerland and had been developed to live on "not much"?
Brought over to England by one of the Mitford sisters who lived there to
her
sister, the Duchess of Devon****re at Chatsworth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Mitford
It's interesting, that.
Tina
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