PUFA-Free, Grain-free layer recipe

[Katodief]

Chickens evolved in tropical forests laying a whole lot fewer eggs, so grubs, greens & fruits more easily fulfilled all their earlier needs, with little call for high energy grains. I was thinking high Omega-3 chia would be a good thing to grow in pasture, along with herbs & veggies & fruits. I live in California Summer drought, but hope to try growing rice grass in some pots, and regularly sprout trays of it too?

Started chickening during Covid, after starting Keto/IF. Learned enough to cut out all my personal seed oils, but still haven't got my flock the best low-PUFA pasture. Wondering what Dr. Mercola's friend Ashley Armstrong, a co-founder of Angel Acres Egg Co., which specializes in low-PUFA eggs (shipped throughout the country) puts in her flock's feed and pastures??? I know I listened to a couple videos they did together, but not remembering well, other than that they talked about rice and the issues with seasonal fruits in Ashley's Midwest (Mercola in Florida had no problem getting/growing year round fruit!)

What about raising and feeding red wigglers to replace the corn/soy protein? They are very easy to raise.

 

[AGeese]

PUFAs and PFAs we're doomed.

 

[FlockVillemaire]

My growing flock are crazy about the store-bought BSFL, (still haven't got my own bin started) but whenever I try to entice them into eating any of the many common garden earthworms living here in California, they turn up their beaks and walk away! I wish I could get them to eat them. I've added new plants to their ferment to get them to taste them successfully, but just the idea of digging up, chopping and adding worms really grosses me out. The things we consider doing for our chickens!On the other hand, I just realized I haven't heard our resident frog in the past few nights, so they probably got him! (Damn RAPTORS!)

I have not been feeding corn/soy other than a rare treat of fresh leftover cobs. They do adore millet, which is similar to corn in nutrients, but I don't know if that's any better.

Another thing I've been thinking of growing are Azolla & Duckweed, which are supposed to be very high in protein and reproduce like crazy in ponds. Just not sure how environmental it is to start a pond in hot summer drought California.

 

[inthesun888]

Do you have any information if any what they eat actually changes the eggs or meat in chickens to make it dangerous for us to eat it?

Usually what they eat does not get to us in much of a quantity. For example, if a hen eats soy, we to not get soy from the eggs.

I do not think chickens live long enough for the pufas to hurt them

Thanks for the article!

This is not true. Changing from what a chicken was meant to eat to what it unfortunately eats now in processed chicken feed absolutely does change the nature of both its meat and eggs. Just like it does to us. Even though chickens don’t live long enough to die of the diseases people die of, their eggs and meat and fat are fundamentally changed by their diet. And then we eat them and we eat what they ate. It’s so true- you are what you eat.

 

[AGeese]

This is not true. Changing from what a chicken was meant to eat to what it unfortunately eats now in processed chicken feed absolutely does change the nature of both its meat and eggs. Just like it does to us. Even though chickens don’t live long enough to die of the diseases people die of, their eggs and meat and fat are fundamentally changed by their diet. And then we eat them and we eat what they ate. It’s so true- you are what you eat.

Welcome to BYC!

 

[OrganicCats]

You are what you eat, eats. Corn & soy feed creates high PUFA fast food.
PUFAs (Polyunsaturated fatty acids) such as linoleic acid are the root cause of nearly every chronic illness we see today and are the quickest way to ruin your metabolic health.
Monogastric animals such as chickens and pigs (and humans) do not have the capability to eliminate or convert excess polyunsaturated fatty acids from their diet.
So when they're fed an evolutionarily inappropriate diet too high in PUFAs, those PUFAs accumulate in their fat.
Ruminants, on the other hand, have a special ability to turn PUFAs into saturated fat.
They keep the PUFAs in their fat at less than 2%, but pork and chicken can go as high as 20%.
We think this is an evolutionarily inappropriate amount of PUFAs for humans to be consuming.
If you choose chicken, pork, duck, or turkey - avoid those that are conventionally raised and fed diets rich in corn, soy, millet, wheat, sunflower meal, or any other high-PUFA grain/seed.

I agree! But where can those of us who are interested find eggs from chickens that are fed a low PUFA diet? I can't find any...

 

[AGeese]

I agree! But where can those of us who are interested find eggs from chickens that are fed a low PUFA diet? I can't find any...

Unless you've given up all plastics and live in the woods you're not on a low PUFA diet.

 

[AGeese]

^the conclusion I've come to anyway. Welcome!

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

Chickens evolved in tropical forests laying a whole lot fewer eggs, so grubs, greens & fruits more easily fulfilled all their earlier needs, with little call for high energy grains. I was thinking high Omega-3 chia would be a good thing to grow in pasture, along with herbs & veggies & fruits. I live in California Summer drought, but hope to try growing rice grass in some pots, and regularly sprout trays of it too?

Started chickening during Covid, after starting Keto/IF. Learned enough to cut out all my personal seed oils, but still haven't got my flock the best low-PUFA pasture. Wondering what Dr. Mercola's friend Ashley Armstrong, a co-founder of Angel Acres Egg Co., which specializes in low-PUFA eggs (shipped throughout the country) puts in her flock's feed and pastures??? I know I listened to a couple videos they did together, but not remembering well, other than that they talked about rice and the issues with seasonal fruits in Ashley's Midwest (Mercola in Florida had no problem getting/growing year round fruit!)

They will not disclose their feed recipe. Which I get on one side but if you want people to be healthier, gatekeeping is not it.

 

[AGeese]

My geese have eaten through the styrofoam insulation in my overhead garage door.