Abdel Hadi earned her PhD exploring the use of crayfish as chicken feed.
Another mildly encouraging example is Charoen Pokphand, the largest conglomerate in Thailand, whose interests range from chicken feed to telecoms.
Then the cows are fed chicken litter containing the feces and potentially prion infected chicken feed from the rendering plant.
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Prices of everything from cars to chicken feed have indeed gone up.
The latest is the overharvesting of menhaden, a small bony fish that's used in chicken feed and also happens to be the stripers' main meal.
Fifth Season's five stores in the Carolinas and Virginia sell gardening supplies and chicken feed, as well as kits for making sake wine and chevre cheese and cultures for yogurt, kefir, sour cream and buttermilk.
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As higher chicken feed costs push multi-national chicken firms like Pilgrim's Pride and Tyson's Food to report losses this year, Abdel Hadi says crayfish waste is an alternative source for the protein and minerals necessary to raise chickens.
Both of these policies have raised demand in the country for millet and sorghum, which provide alternative sources of flour as well as chicken-feed.
The baht's plunge has been a bonus for CP's core Thai agri-business exports of animal feed, frozen chicken and prawns.
Rising commodity prices can translate into higher food costs, especially as producers of beef, pork and chicken look to pass on higher animal-feed costs.
Before American chicken feet walked into China, they were used for animal feed, making about 2 cents per pound.
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