Feeding animals their own species is a recipe for disease outbreaks. I'm astonished every time I hear about it.

It’s like they never heard of scrapie, kuru, or vCJD - or they just figure it can’t happen here.

Yeah, I think at this point it is safer to just skip meat entirely or only eating meat from known sources.

I won't feed my backyard chickens any poultry products, cooked canned or otherwise. No sense in exposing them to the same species diseases and prions.

I'm curious about your economy as a homesteader, what do you produce for yourself or trade? how does your days/seasons look like? Do you see your days are easy chores or hard chores (no pun intended)? What's your long term todo list ?

Regarding your fear, is it because the farmers you know lives close to your own poultry ?