Feeding chicken to ducks?

**Hitcher** · 31st December 2008, 22:00

I heard that those make a proper splash.

**Ixion** · 31st December 2008, 22:01

So then, the duck might have been a goose or a sheep or a fish?

**Hitcher** · 31st December 2008, 22:05

There has already been a recent thread involving a turducken. The fush is a new twust.

**Ixion** · 31st December 2008, 22:09

A goshepen perhaps

**McDuck** · 2nd January 2009, 11:53

Originally Posted by MadDuck

I object to that comment

I think it is a fair point

**Naki Rat** · 2nd January 2009, 12:44

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Not the cause, as such, as many mammal species have an associated prion disease. BSE was comparatively rare prior to the practice of feeding low-temperature rendered cattle meat and bone meal to other cattle. Science appears to support a proposition that TSEs don't pass from one species to another.

There's also a school of thought that suggests that the advent of 'pour-on' external parasite treatments, some of which were derived from nerve gas, applied along the cow's spine may well be a contributing factor to BSE.

Warnings regarding consuming spinal tissues (as present in mechanically stripped beef processed into burger patties) sort of agrees with this theory.

**tri boy** · 2nd January 2009, 12:50

Originally Posted by Headbanger

They definitely eat it, I was just munching on some KFC and throwing the scraps to the ducks in the stream that runs alongside the house.

How big was the oil slick on the water?

**Hitcher** · 2nd January 2009, 15:02

Originally Posted by Naki Rat

There's also a school of thought that suggests that the advent of 'pour-on' external parasite treatments, some of which were derived from nerve gas, applied along the cow's spine may well be a contributing factor to BSE.

Warnings regarding consuming spinal tissues (as present in mechanically stripped beef processed into burger patties) sort of agrees with this theory.

Not a credible school of thought, one would have thought.

Prion diseases affect the central nervous system. Consuming body parts like brains and spinal cords that have not been cooked to a level that denatures the prion material is a risky activity, and one that risks contagion from infected materials. That is how Kuru spreads amongst Papua New Guinean Highlanders, for example.