BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[ronott1]

It's from these people:
http://www.tucsonorganicfeed.com/

I can get the big sky organic non soy layer from Azure standard for $42.25 for 50 pounds. I can buy 150 pounds of layeena for that price.

I might buy it if I could get the price you get.

https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/search?q=layer+feed&submit=

I liked it but the price went up very high here. Scratch and peck is over $36 for 40 pounds.

The hens are doing great on layeena though. Chicks and cockerels that are growing out get flock raiser.

 

[Beer can]

I was feeding Layeena for most of the fall and winter. Our TSC had it on sale only a dollar more than their Dumor. I think it's better feed. I had people tell me I was wasting my dollars cause Purina makes Dumor and it's the same. I don't really believe it, but hard to tell from the label of ingredients and percentages of everything, they're labeling is different, probably to make it confusing when comparing.
I know at the dairy plant I work at there is a couple name brand products we make that is the same as the cheaper label, but most have a little less of something in the cheaper labeled products.

I would use organic myself if it wasn't so expensive. If I didn't mind a two hr road trip each way there is a place that grinds their own soy free organic layer 100lbs bags for $17!!! That's not much more than I pay for 50lbs of TSC feed...

 

[Beer can]

@CanadianBuckeye how far from Ava NY are you? It's way to far for me for feed even at that price. Well it'd probably be worth it if I bought a few bags, just hate long drives, especially when it's only for one reason.

 

[mikeldb]

It's usually better if you can find a small mill that makes their own, name brands are over rated, I've got one close to me and I can get 6 months of feed for about what I pay for 2 months at tsc, only issue there is storing it but at least I know what is actually in the feed in feeding my birds

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

@CanadianBuckeye how far from Ava NY are you? It's way to far for me for feed even at that price. Well it'd probably be worth it if I bought a few bags, just hate long drives, especially when it's only for one reason.

It's about four hours to Syracuse not including however long a wait at the border, but are you talking to me? I've never tried bringing poultry feed across the border.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

Well, this weekend was weights, measures and photo time! The last batch of incubator chicks are 10 weeks old now and I've selected my meat breeders. I'm still thrilled with their growth rates, personalities, temperaments and health.

Breeding cockerel #1: Simon - NN/White Rock mix: 51.78 ounces



Breeding cockerel #2: Monty - White Rock/Ameraucana-Dorking mix: 51.36 ounces



Breeding pullet #1: Senna - White Rock/Ameraucana-Dorking mix: 42.4 ounces


Breeding pullet #2: Mags - Australorp/Ameraucana-Dorking mix: 44.2 ounces


Breeding pullet #3: Willow - NN/White Rock mix: 40.04 ounces


Breeding pullet #4: Haley - White Rock/Ameraucana-Dorking mix: 39.89 ounces



@Kev - I'm mystified as to how Haley (pictured above) managed to remain pure white. Her father is my copper-colored Ameraucana-Dorking mix, the same as Willow's, Senna's and Monty's, and yet they're all colorful. She also has the same mother as Simon, also pictured above. (Chicken color genetics continues to amaze and confound me.)

Nice flock you have there. PS Haley is probably recessive white, mom and dad have to be carrying it and unless Haley is crossed with a rooster also carrying recessive white, she'll have coloured chicks.

 

[Beer can]

It's about four hours to Syracuse not including however long a wait at the border, but are you talking to me? I've never tried bringing poultry feed across the border.

Yeah, great price on feed but I wouldn't want to drive two hrs, wasn't sure how far from the border you were.
Probably easier for you than for us to do the same. I know truck drivers hauling tankers of cream or condensed skim that hate going into Canada. They say going to Canada is easy, "trying to get back in your own darn country is the hard part"

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

I have been looking into the soldier fly thing to and I think I can over winter some in a old fish tank that I have to get a good amount of them to the spring I was reading that if you keep them at a lower temperature like 18°c you can extend the life of them by weeks

From what I've read, the maggots are pretty easy, but getting the adults to mate and lay eggs is trickier. @AngryRooster we need to get together and breed a northern, cold tolerant strain ! It may be possible.

 

[Beer can]

It's usually better if you can find a small mill that makes their own, name brands are over rated, I've got one close to me and I can get 6 months of feed for about what I pay for 2 months at tsc, only issue there is storing it but at least I know what is actually in the feed in feeding my birds

I used to get Blue Seal feed right from their mill, not in bulk but their 50lb bags were a few $ cheaper than TSC. Unfortunately they closed, getting to be fewer dairy farms around here. I was buying from another, McDowell & Walker, not directly from their mill, they have a store near me and sell a variety of stuff and are a small engine repair shop, just accross the road from where they just put in a new TSC a few yrs ago. Only reason I started buying feed at TSC is we were paying off some bills and $$ was tight this fall/winter, was using TSC card, and them being open late and on Sunday's was convenient, M&W isn't.
We're switching back to M&W now, rather keep my $ local and their feed is actually usually cheaper sometimes during the yr. When they get grain cheaper they pass the savings onto the customers, TSC doesn't do that.
I'm a little turned off by this TSC anyway. I recently bought a bag of Dumor layer pellets that had a few fist size chunks of hard dry green mold...didn't see it until I used a third of it, and I ferment it...
The next day my naked necks arrived and the wife stopped there to buy a bag of chick starter. She said they had a bag of layer pellets taped shut with a clearance tag on it...

 

[mikeldb]

I like to buy like 20 bags of different stuff and mix my own for scratch, and I and alfalfa and other stuff