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<blockquote data-quote="Farminlund" data-source="post: 539403" data-attributes="member: 1132"><p>The reason that litter was not banned as a cattle feed back when the "big" BSE scare happened a few years ago was that they decided it too risky to allow ruminant protein to be feed to chickens or other animals (swine). The reason - contamination of feed from one to another type was likely while control & cleaning of mixing facilities seemed another likely reason for contamination of cattle feed. I also wrote the FDA (during the input period) that the spreading litter as pasture fertilizer would also likely comprise the control of ruminant protein from getting into the cattle herd - I have no idea if my concern had anything to do with their final decision. In conclusion, there is no use of ruminant protein in any animal feed; thus litter possesses no risk to pass on BSE to cattle. Why do I know this info - have feed chicken litter to cattle for over 10 yrs & continue to do so - go at it, been here before!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farminlund, post: 539403, member: 1132"] The reason that litter was not banned as a cattle feed back when the "big" BSE scare happened a few years ago was that they decided it too risky to allow ruminant protein to be feed to chickens or other animals (swine). The reason - contamination of feed from one to another type was likely while control & cleaning of mixing facilities seemed another likely reason for contamination of cattle feed. I also wrote the FDA (during the input period) that the spreading litter as pasture fertilizer would also likely comprise the control of ruminant protein from getting into the cattle herd - I have no idea if my concern had anything to do with their final decision. In conclusion, there is no use of ruminant protein in any animal feed; thus litter possesses no risk to pass on BSE to cattle. Why do I know this info - have feed chicken litter to cattle for over 10 yrs & continue to do so - go at it, been here before! [/QUOTE]
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