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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 144372" data-attributes="member: 27677">You have to be a bit wary of chicken feed, adding hormones was stopped here in Australia, although shops still use "Hormone Free Chicken" as a selling point when advertising raw and cooked chicken, but chicken food can still contain antibiotics. A while back I was reading about chicken feed and how the waste (straw, feathers, left over food and droppings) could be reprocessed back into pellets twice before new raw material needed to be added, so that's a bit of a worry! How widespread the practice is I don't know, I would think that could be true of large commercial quantities but I doubt you'd find it in a fodder store or pet shop. Interesting though, it all relates to how efficient, or rather inefficient their digestive system is, basically you can run one batch of food through them three times before the nutrient content is too low and needs topping up.In any case, turkey starter crumble is considered a safer food in the fish keeping community, but of course some chicken pellets are bound to be a good food, it would just depend on which brand you pick.</blockquote>