It's no longer “just chicken feed”-now a product of scientific nutritional research

Grau, C

It's no longer “just chicken feed”-now a product of scientific nutritional research

Author

C. R. Grau

Author Affiliations

C. R. Grau is Instructor and Junior Poultry Husbandman in the Experiment Station.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 1(1):3-3. DOI:10.3733/ca.v001n01p3a. December 1946.

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Abstract

It wasn't so very long ago that “chicken feed” meant something of little or no value, some feed that was given to chickens in the hope that eventually a chicken dinner might result. But when you pass off something as “just chicken feed” today, you may not mean what you say.

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