commercial feed from Walmart

read your feed tags. I was feeding walmart brand because I saved a few dollars. I had some issues with dying chickens, one a week. They just got thin lethargic and died. I always read feed tags for all my other critters but had failed to do so with the chicken feed. I figured I should read the walmart feed tag. It was a bag of trash! All by products, not one true ingredient in the bag. Poor protien content and calcium wasnt listed(this was an egg making product).

Switched to Purina and havent had lost a chicken since(6 months ago). The condition of the chickens that survived was vastly improved in just a few weeks, I hadnt even realized how poor they all looked.

I love walmart but at least at mine anyhow the quality of their animal feed is very poor.
 
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Hey... anyone in Southern Maryland or Northern Virginia? I'm trying to keep feed costs low and I'm finding 40lbs of Layer feed at TSC for $15 locally. I can get it for $12 at Southern States in La Plata, MD or I can drive all the way to Charlotte Hall and get it for $9. I guess if I bought a LOT in Charlotte Hall it would justify the 1.5 hr round trip... anyone got a better place in the Washington DC metro?
 
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My local Wally World does not sell feed, so this is not an issue for me.

Any of you guys thought about the number of products Wally World imports from China? Do you guys realise that them chinaman have no ethics at all. Heck they feed poison milk to their own babies. The melamine in dog food from a few years ago. No way, no how, would I be feeding any chicken feed from Wally World to my chickens, unless I could be assured that it was American made poducts.
 
Our Walmart just did a complete remodel, made everything look fancier, and they started to carry chicken feed.

Since the remodel, prices are not falling
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Anyhoot, we have walked by the feed, and just kept on a walkin.
 
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depends on where ya live. I live in the middle of bfe... so the store 20 miles away carrys it
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BEllLISAMO! bfe? I had to re-read this-I knew what it stood for--- excuse me while I
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havent heard that in a long time-
 
I buy my feed at a small town hardware store where I bought my chicks, they have been in business for over 100 years so they must be doing something right. My experience with walfart is not a good one and choose not to spend there if at all possible. I cant speak chinese and being the son and grandson of union men who had a pension and didnt have to work at walfart to buy something more than cat food to eat during retirement, I try to buy american ( Ford trucks rock and gets 27mpg city ) when I can find it. The feed I buy is made in Shelby N.C. and is always fresh and my girrls pick fights with my dog they are so big and sassy.
 
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Only certain stores sell it. If you don't live in a smallish type town, well, forget it. I use the egg maker, and they just love it. their eggs are great as well. I have to drive a ways to get it! Its the only Walmart within 150 miles of me.
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Quality of chicken feed was truly the question of the original poster, sorry that I got off topic with my personal rant.

My local feed stores sell mostly KingFeed. Watch out for No Name brands like those that are from China (like Melamine in dog/cat food).

Go ahead and buy name brand products where ever you shop, but read the labels and check the county of origin.

--Hugh

My 50th post, I am Out of the Brooder!
 
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