"Fred that feed you sold me is no good. The chicken feed." - The Birds
Posted on 01/28/2023 8:23:31 AM PST by Safrguns
I read that DuMore and Producer’s Pride are the 2 feeds sold by Tractor Supply that may have an issue...not poison, shortage or quality issue of key nutrients for egg laying suspected culprit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDI4Cy2HQNg
I'm not convinced, but I also don't dismiss it out of hand.
I had a long conversation with a friend who raises chickens. Egg production is down but here’s what she thinks: winter has most egg production down. 2. A chicken has a specific number of eggs she can lay in her lifetime. Winter is when she rests and builds up her energy. My friend does use the TSC feed but is shopping around for another source. She says she cannot afford “organic” feed and is considering making her own. In the meantime, she’s not too concerned. They have ducks and they are still laying and her girls give her 2-3 a day. Well, she is concerned and thinks that it is totally plausible that TSC feed is tainted. It is produced by a company that sponsors WEF. Scary all around.
Who is spraying it?
Where?
When?
It's true and I'm grateful for all who participated since I got one.
Unfortunately the damn things don't come with ash trays.....
Oh well.
It is the bird flu that did it. Chicken numbers have got to get back up. Feed costs are high and the kalifornication of how birds are managed just costs more money.
Eggs will eventually come down some.
Funny thing about just about every shortage we have experienced, there is almost always product on the shelves IF you are willing to pay enough.
Yesterday I paid $3.59 at Whole Food. Limit 2 dozen.
"Fred that feed you sold me is no good. The chicken feed." - The Birds
what a total crock of shite ... commercial chicken farms buy chickenfeed by the trainload from commercial sources, not a few bags from tractor supply ... i just bought birdseed from tractor supply and the clerk and i chatted, and she buys her feed from there herself, i lamented that at least she gets eggs, unlike the freeloading birds around my house.
also, free range chickens generally don’t lay eggs in the winter because there’s not enough sunlight to stimulate the ovary to release a yolk ... i personally know a few free range backyard egg producers and they lament that they don’t get eggs in the winter ... commercial growers (and even small householders) fix that with controlled lighting in their hen houses ...
One of the major reasons for the shortage is an outbreak of the bird flu (avian influenza), which is a very contagious and deadly virus. While this outbreak occurred over a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it has affected more than 57 million birds in both commercial and backyard flocks.
In California, newly enacted laws designed to ensure the humane treatment of egg-laying birds are also a factor. californians are paying triple the average price as the rest of the nation ...
Our bird’s are laying normal amounts for this time of year.
Never used feed from TS or any other big retail chain.
I had a small flock of about 200 layers on my farm.
Always kept in the chicken house
Pile of crushed oyster shells
Mineral salt block
Bale of alfalfa hay along a wall mesh feeder
And I gave them our vegetable table scraps
They were as healthy as can be, layed lots of eggs, and tasted good.
I used light and then would stop to force molt. Then bring them back to laying again. After the first year you get bigger eggs and lots of double yokes.
I’ve heard about this. Wouldn’t surprise me. I quit going to Tractor Supply because of their demon clown support. Rural King is priority.
where are these 6 stores located PA is a large state
Interesting. When did you “force” the molt?
It’s true. We got a new flock last spring and they stopped laying last summer. We pretty much narrowed down to the lay pellets at Atwoods.
We’ve had backyard chickens in Texas and Arkansas for more than 30 years and I haven’t seen anything like it before. We should have had about 100 more eggs over the past 8 months than we have gotten.
I find this so odd... response so far on this thread I expected to be one way or the other.
It's been pretty evenly mixed... AND extreme... from “complete Shiite” to “absolutely confirmed”.
Intentional? who knows... but clearly something to this.
I wonder who would have the capacity to examine feed such as yours to see what is in it, like so many doctors have put the vaccines under a microscope to expose parasites and graphene oxide.
Withholding food from the birds for 5 to 21 days causes them to lose weight, lose their feathers, and stop egg production. While their egg production stops, the hens’ reproductive system is “rejuvenated,” and the hens will later lay larger eggs, which are more profitable.
I just cut back the normal feed and give them whole oats which deprives thrm nutritionally to force molt, rather than starving them.
Early fall is best so they are full feathered for winter.
Feed a high protein feed after molt so the feathers grow back faster and start egg production faster.
A little trick that I always do in the winter is to fill the waterer with hot water. We call it chicken tea. They love it.
My preferred breed is Rhode Island Reds, but have raised Barred Rocks, Bannys, and white commercial layers. The white layers really produced eggs but there was no meat on them to eat. They stayed super skinny.
I put a glass wall on the chicken house with southern exposure so it heated like a greenhouse in the winter.
I kept an old chest freezer in the chicken house to keep feed from the rats.
It was a fun hobby gor my four children. The egg sales were their allowance income and I paid for feed. The work ethic and values it taught them was worth far more than the cost.
Sent you a “mail.”
Feed from Tractor Supply?
The backyard farmers that buy feed there raise probably 1/1,000 eggs in the nation .
This isn’t complicated .
It’s a bird flu thing, large flocks have been euthanized .
Those farms will be back online soon.
Too many people with too much time on their hands post things online that are silly.
Totally agree. But I’m very thankful that they have the freedom and right to do so.
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