Blue Seal layer feed is NOT CERTIFIED ORGANIC by QAI.
One of our local feed suppliers was looking into stocking quality organic feed and asked my opinion about BLUE SEAL's quality.
First of all this feed has nothing to offer if one is looking for non-gmo, no soy, organic feed.
The feed ingredient list looked suspect from the get go because there was no direct inference to which ingredients were certified organic. The manufacturer, made a feeble attempt by putting an asterisk by come ingredients but that asterisk was not linked to any further information. I contacted the certifying agent, QAI and asked them to verify that Blue Seal was indeed a client. Turns out the QAI has never heard of this company and their legal team will sent them a cease and desist letter asking them to remove such labeling under QAI's name.
I'm not claiming anyone is wrong to use it....I'm just saying it is NOT what it represents itself to be.
This is what their on-line layer ingredient list looked like last week and is what I sent to QAI
__________________________________________________________________
MANUFACTURED FOR
BLUE SEAL® FEEDS, INC.
P.O. Box 8000, Londonderry, NH 03053
CERTIFIED ORGANIC BY QAI.
_______________________________________________
This is what their "organic layer feed label" looks like today. So now the Kent Nutritional Group appears
MANUFACTURED BY
KENT NUTRITION GROUP, INC.
GENERAL OFFICES - MUSCATINE, IOWA 52761
they also mfg layer feed under the name
Home Fresh® Extra-Egg and several others for LARGE COMMERCIAL BREEDERS.
I wonder how the company would respond if hundreds of chickeners were to CALL THEM OUT on label falsification. They are probably hoping no one will notice. Perhaps they think we don't care about FALSIFYING. Perhaps they think we're gullible. Well, let me tell them: WE ARE NEITHER. WE ARE NEITHER. WE ARE NEITHER. dammit, stop with the lying and mislabeling.
Naturally, one wonders what else are they misrepresenting. Perhaps if masses of chickeners who currently use Blue Seal "showed" them how serious we are about label integrity, hmmmmm......I wonder the outcome.....hmmmm. Blue Seal is not sold in my area so there's little we here in Western North Carolina can do except blow the whistle. Consider it blown.
ALL THE MORE REASON TO MAKE OUR OWN FEED. SURELY SOME DAY THERE WILL BE A QUALITY FEED MADE EXPRESSLY FOR SMALL FLOCKS, NOT COMMERCIAL LARGE BIG AG COMPANIES WHO COULD CARE LESS ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE FEED AS LONG AS IT MAKES THEM GROW FAST AND LAY OFTEN.
Stepping down off my soap box. The end, dammit.
SOMETIMES THE ONLY POWER WE HAVE IS WITH OUR POWER TO PURCHASE OR NOT PURCHASE.
One of our local feed suppliers was looking into stocking quality organic feed and asked my opinion about BLUE SEAL's quality.
First of all this feed has nothing to offer if one is looking for non-gmo, no soy, organic feed.
The feed ingredient list looked suspect from the get go because there was no direct inference to which ingredients were certified organic. The manufacturer, made a feeble attempt by putting an asterisk by come ingredients but that asterisk was not linked to any further information. I contacted the certifying agent, QAI and asked them to verify that Blue Seal was indeed a client. Turns out the QAI has never heard of this company and their legal team will sent them a cease and desist letter asking them to remove such labeling under QAI's name.
I'm not claiming anyone is wrong to use it....I'm just saying it is NOT what it represents itself to be.
This is what their on-line layer ingredient list looked like last week and is what I sent to QAI
__________________________________________________________________
MANUFACTURED FOR
BLUE SEAL® FEEDS, INC.
P.O. Box 8000, Londonderry, NH 03053
CERTIFIED ORGANIC BY QAI.
_______________________________________________
This is what their "organic layer feed label" looks like today. So now the Kent Nutritional Group appears
MANUFACTURED BY
KENT NUTRITION GROUP, INC.
GENERAL OFFICES - MUSCATINE, IOWA 52761
they also mfg layer feed under the name
Home Fresh® Extra-Egg and several others for LARGE COMMERCIAL BREEDERS.
I wonder how the company would respond if hundreds of chickeners were to CALL THEM OUT on label falsification. They are probably hoping no one will notice. Perhaps they think we don't care about FALSIFYING. Perhaps they think we're gullible. Well, let me tell them: WE ARE NEITHER. WE ARE NEITHER. WE ARE NEITHER. dammit, stop with the lying and mislabeling.
Naturally, one wonders what else are they misrepresenting. Perhaps if masses of chickeners who currently use Blue Seal "showed" them how serious we are about label integrity, hmmmmm......I wonder the outcome.....hmmmm. Blue Seal is not sold in my area so there's little we here in Western North Carolina can do except blow the whistle. Consider it blown.
ALL THE MORE REASON TO MAKE OUR OWN FEED. SURELY SOME DAY THERE WILL BE A QUALITY FEED MADE EXPRESSLY FOR SMALL FLOCKS, NOT COMMERCIAL LARGE BIG AG COMPANIES WHO COULD CARE LESS ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE FEED AS LONG AS IT MAKES THEM GROW FAST AND LAY OFTEN.
Stepping down off my soap box. The end, dammit.
SOMETIMES THE ONLY POWER WE HAVE IS WITH OUR POWER TO PURCHASE OR NOT PURCHASE.
I'm a Vermonter, living in Maine, but when I found Green Mountain organic chicken layer feed, I was like, "Heck Yeh"! 
