SC - Fw: [SCA Equestrian] Re: Odd things that horses eat

[Deborah J Schumacher]

from -Phlip
from the equestrian list-
>In a message dated 98-12-31 16:29:20 EST, Katherine writes:
>>
>>  has anyone really read the side of commercially prepared horse feed??
>>  Purina allegedly adds ground up feathers to up their protein, and Senior
>has
>>  added fat...animal fat. That is just one type, check out the side of the
>>  bags, and find out what something is..
>>
>Not too suprized at feathers as a feed stuff.  I know that in period
>(Elizabethan, at least)  "Chicken feather soup"  was known.  I know it was
a
>peasant dish.  I am going to make the assumption that it was probably used
to
>get them through the dead of winter, when the rest of the meat, etc., was
>gone.   Apparently, the feathers were boiled to extract the
protein/gelatin,
>and the resulting broth was consumed.
>(I keep trying to get up the nerve to try it, but, having been a vet tech,
I
>am WAY too aware of the nasties chickens carry.  8-P)
>
>Iseult

The only thing i have heard of is Chinese Birds nest soup- made with real birds nests. 

just my .02 
Zoe

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