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Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds. Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm.
Farming of chickens on an industrial scale relies largely on high protein feeds derived from soybeans; in the European Union the soybean dominates the protein supply for animal feed, [88] and the poultry industry is the largest consumer of such feed. [88]
Roxarsone is an organoarsenic compound that has been used in poultry production as a feed additive to increase weight gain and improve feed efficiency, and as a coccidiostat. [1] As of June 2011, it was approved for chicken feed in the United States, Canada, Australia, and 12 other countries. [2]
Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Anthony Mack. [1] [2] It was the 66th Our Gang short subject to be released. [3] Cast. The Gang
Feed manufacturing refers to the process of ... "Physical and nutritional effects of pelleting of broiler chicken diets made from wheat ground to different ...
Modern varieties of chicken such as the Cornish Cross, are bred specifically for meat production, with an emphasis placed on the ratio of feed to meat produced by the animal. The most common breeds of chicken consumed in the U.S. are Cornish and White Rock. [16] Chickens raised specifically for food are called broilers. In the U.S., broilers ...
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets [1] or for cockfighting.
Chickens were one of the domesticated animals carried with the sea-borne Austronesian migrations into Taiwan, Island Southeast Asia, Island Melanesia, Madagascar, and the Pacific Islands; starting from around 3500 to 2500 BC. [25] [26] By 2000 BC, chickens seem to have reached the Indus Valley and 250 years later, they arrived in Egypt. They ...