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Taking things back to evolution completely ignores the fact that humans have intervened in the physiology of livestock by breeding them for specific traits. Claiming the you should feed a modern Rhode Island Red exactly as you would a wild jungle fowl is fool hardy and misguided.

More tripe!

Mercola? You're using a Mercola as a credible source of information on food?

Oh my. Do what you want with your chickens, it doesn't bother me at all. However, the spreading of mistruths, false correleations, and flat our lies to justify your personal choice is offensive.

What will be your source of vitamins and trace minerals? One thing people forget or do not realize when stating that they can make feed cheaper then commercial feed is the inclusion of specialty ingredeints. None of the "I can do it cheaper then any feed company" recipes contain probiotics...

It is partly political due to tariffs and trade agreement but most due to the fact that the American Farmer is very efficient at producing corn which lowers the price. Couple that with the cost to transport grain across the ocean and we can produce corn and soybeans more inexpensively than we...

That should be BILLION. I was changing from tons to bushels and back.

You are off by a magnitude of a thousand, we actually only import about 200 THOUSAND metric tons of corn a year. In a typical year we will produce about 12 BILLION bushels of corn, or 305 MILLION metric tons. So we import about .066% of what we produce.

Your Feed Supplier is full of hot air. While there are some livestock producers that may be using high levels of DDGS in their rations, but the feeds that the average person feeds to their livestock still contain corn and soybean meal. The comment that most corn comes from South America is...