but food that could be used to nourish starving people is instead fed to billions of chickens, pigs, and cows which are slaughtered for their flesh. PETA adds: “In addition to being extremely cruel to animals, meat production is also staggeringly inefficient: It takes up to 16 pounds...
and as a potential strategy for reducing the use of antibiotics in monogastric animals. The article,“Bacillus spp. Probiotic Strains as a Potential Tool for Limiting the Use of Antibiotics and Improving the Growth and Health of Pigs and Chickens”, ...
Much like the industrialised farming of cows, chickens, sheep, pigs, andfish, commercial beekeeping is not a concern for the bees’ wellbeing, and most folks would agree that mass-scale honey is not vegan. However, when it comes to local beekeeping, the answer becomes a little more complica...
To complete the perfect beer can chicken cooking experience, PERDUE® is selling fresh whole chickens, always raised with no antibiotics ever, in limited-time packaging that features the beer can chicken grilling occasion on...
Let’s put the chickens before the eggs. Here’s a quick guide to navigating egg carton labels, from better to best choice (and don’t be fooled by misleading claims like omega rich or fed vegetarian feed): Cage-free eggs “Cage-free” means hens are not confined to battery cages, but...
We also raise pastured ducks, geese and chickens and often sheep – all animals that can get all of their food from pasture in the warm months. The chickens are our natural, organic pest control. They follow our herds of grazers, the pigs and sheep, around the mountain pastures breaking ...
but consumers have concerns about health effects. Administration of probiotics seems to be a useful replacement for antibiotics. More studies have been conducted on broilers, necessitating the need to evaluate the effect of probiotics on NH3production in conjunction with laying hen performance and egg ...
As mentioned at the outset, the common bedbug is a small (about the size of an apple seed), reddish-brown, flattened bug that looks a bit like a beetle that exclusively feeds on blood of warm-blooded animals, particularly humans, chickens and bats. ...
Chickens don’t even need growth hormones, steroids, or supplemental estrogen or testosterone of any kind. It’s been illegal for decades. Beef cattleareallowed to betreated with hormones(6 of them, 3 natural, 3 synthetic), but that can’t be the whole story. Dairy cattle are allowed to...
In the present study, a reduction in the average daily weight and an increased mortality rate were noticed in the broilers that were fed mycotoxin-contaminated diets without toxin binders. Similar results were found in previous studies in chickens that were fed mycotoxin diets [1,25,38,39,40]...