Commercial Poison (err... "Feed")

[U_Stormcrow]

Agreed, it's nonsensical.

Ask Anheuser Busch how that Bud Light campaign turned out. Stupid, nonsensical, but someone thought it was a nifty idea.

If you don't understand the difference between a marketing exec thinking New Coke, Pepsi Zero, or the current A-B social tempest might be a good idea, and A-B deliberately tanking their beer business in an effort to sell more soda coozies (the effective "motive" behind feed companies tanking their feed to drive up egg prices), then I submit that perhaps you have yet to acknowledge just how objectively stupid this particular theory is.

 

[Perris]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...trad-views-on-nutrition.1567953/post-26615525

 

[BastyPutt]

Oh don’t worry, I won’t be back here again. Thx

Hi Max

Don't be deterred. Sometimes folks on here get really upset when status quo is in question, kind of like anywhere else.

We have been feeding our hens and broilers alike feed that we mix here on the farm for 8 years. I've learned not to share it openly here. Happy to send it to you privately if you'd like, just let me know. It is more expensive if you want to go this route, but pretty negligible in the long run.

And I encourage your desire to question your chickens feed, as well as your own "feed". Talking about conspiracies and questioning companies is what helps keeps a free state free - spreading things that you know to be untrue is where the line should be drawn - which I certainly don't think is the case here.

 

[BastyPutt]

To look at it all in the most simple and logical terms.....

Feed companies are not in business to produce eggs. They produce feed.
What would be their gain if their feed caused chickens to stop laying???
Nothing. It would be a LOSS as everyone would switch feed.

Egg producers purchase feed (I am sure some very large producers make their own but definitely use a proven recipe).


There is simply zero logic in believing that feed companies have decided to deliberately cause chickens to stop laying.

How long do you believe it would take for a non commercial chicken owner to change feed if their hens weren't producing?

 

[Max Coats]

Hi Max

Don't be deterred. Sometimes folks on here get really upset when status quo is in question, kind of like anywhere else.

We have been feeding our hens and broilers alike feed that we mix here on the farm for 8 years. I've learned not to share it openly here. Happy to send it to you privately if you'd like, just let me know. It is more expensive if you want to go this route, but pretty negligible in the long run.

And I encourage your desire to question your chickens feed, as well as your own "feed". Talking about conspiracies and questioning companies is what helps keeps a free state free - spreading things that you know to be untrue is where the line should be drawn - which I certainly don't think is the case here.

Yes please send me your feed recipe. I appreciate it and your advice. Many thx!

 

[BastyPutt]

Yes please send me your feed recipe. I appreciate it and your advice. Many thx!

I'll do it this evening

 

[Max Coats]

W

Who said they lowered the protein & where can I see that? Purina still states 16% layer feed & 20% flock raiser.

Sorry I don’t remember where I read it the first time, but have seen it on YouTube as well. Just search for chicken feed on YouTube.

 

[Max Coats]

I'll do it this evening

thx!

 

[21hens-incharge]

How long do you believe it would take for a non commercial chicken owner to change feed if their hens weren't producing?

See below for the main point of what I was saying.

To look at it all in the most simple and logical terms.....

Feed companies are not in business to produce eggs. They produce feed.

So ... Yes they are in it for profit from selling feed. Selling crappy feed that makes chickens not lay is not in their best interest as a company.

 

[Perris]

See below for the main point of what I was saying.



So ... Yes they are in it for profit from selling feed. Selling crappy feed that makes chickens not lay is not in their best interest as a company.

the problem with this argument is that intentions are not the same thing as effects, and there are unintended consequences of actions taken in good faith. I'm sure no feed company intended to create BSE (mad cow disease) or food company to create CJD, but they did anyway.