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    Sponsored Post Californians Will Appreciate Value of Freedom Poultry Feeds

    Organic feeds are feeds that are certified to current government definitions of an organic feed. I.e., if you are going to be selling an organic product, you need to feed organic feed as part of your program. The other primary difference between the Freedom Feed and Organic feeds is that...
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    Sponsored Post Californians Will Appreciate Value of Freedom Poultry Feeds

    Yes, we do ship our feeds. On line orders can be placed at www.hearnestore.com
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    My responses are on behalf on King Feeds.
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    For people that are looking for GMO free poultry feed, we produce both a 95% organic feed and a new Freedom GMO-Free Layuer Pellet. The latter is currently in testing and expected to be released in June. .
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    Kathy The diatomaceous earth studies were conducted by the Avian Research Center at the University of British Columbia by D. C. Bennet et al. The study is entitled "Effect of Diatomaceous Earth on parasite load, egg production and egg quality of free-range organic laying hens". In addition...
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    Chris This document compares the SafeFood/SafeFeed guidelines to FDA regulations for nonmedicated facilities and feeds .which is why we believe it's a good program for those types of facilities. King feeds, however, is a licensed medicated facility and the standards and controls are much more...
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    It's true that animals left to fend for themselves may manage to survive, but the focus of the article is about how to feed a bird for optimum health, longevity and productivity. The National Research Council consolidates nutritional studies and distills them into the Daily Nutrient...
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    In regards to heat processing, it is actually both a physical and chemical process. AAFCO, which put forth the definition of natural and the standard to which this feed is developed- says it's NOT OK to use any "chemically SYNTHETIC process, heat processing is approved by AAFCO.
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    Joy I wanted to provide further clarification on pesticide residue and feeds. The FDA has set residue tolerances on some pesticides in feed & feed ingredients. If that tolerance is exceeded, the feed is considered adulterated. Other pesticides do not have an FDA residue tolerance, so any...
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    Chris The Safe Feed/Safe Food Program is a voluntary 3rd party certification program administered by AFIA (American Feed Industry Association). It is a good program, especially for feed mills not licensed by the FDA. Our mill is licensed by the FDA as a medicated feed facility. As such we...
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    Lady Feather Our intention certainly was not to make anyone feel foolish about feeding organic. When we say that many organic feeds are the same as a basic feed - we are referring to the fact that the formula is the same - simply made with organic ingredients - not that there are not...
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    Each retailer sets their own price, however, a good ball park for the Natural layer feed is around $21-$22 for a 50# bag. Sandy
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    Sponsored Post To your chicken's health!

    Joy The Natural feed definition by AAFCO does not require that the ingredients be free of pesticides or organic which is why we didn't mention it in the article. We realize that many people have concerns about pesticides, gmo grains, soy, etc. which is why we offer a variety of poultry feeds...
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