Do large poultry farmers feed Purina Layena?

[Katy]

Layena and other feeds like Flock Raiser are aimed at small backyard poultry keepers. Especially those who believe their birds benefit from a vegetarian diet, even tho a chicken is far from a vegetarain if given the choice. Purina is owned by Land O Lakes.

 

[Weiden Farm]

A large farmer is probably focused on getting whatever the best feed is for their situation at the best price. That could depend on their objectives whether it is growth or egg population. I would not be surprised if Purina markets to the large farmers under a different brand name and the mix being different. It is also amazing how much of a discount could be afforded to bulk buyer.

 

[Chris09]

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I was just going say that Purina is a "Sub-company" and was owned by Land-O-Lakes. Nestlé has there foot in there some where also.

Chris

 

[BarefootMom]

I agree that big corporations do not use Layena. They might buy from Purina, but they get it buy the truckloads.


I can't believe some of the prices some of you mention when talking about Purina feeds! Layena here is about $13 a 50lb bag and feed mill layer is about $11 so not that big of a difference in price.

 

[Chris09]

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Land-O-Lakes

Chris

 

[ChickInDelight]

Now, I am wondering why the question? Are you concerned with quality or do you want to save money?

I am a BIG fan of Ralston-Purina foods. I just got my first 2 eggs, one each morning, from my Mallards. My Mallards are the same age as my chickens and are the first to lay (Easter chicks - all of them). I have been feeding everyone Layena, but just switched my ducks to Flockraiser.

My birds look SO much better than anything I have seen on a large-scale farm!

The eggs are SO perfect. Clean, very hard/thick blue-green shells..Very clear 'whites'. Very firm yolk.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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Ralson-Purina as a company died a long time ago. The pet food portion of Purina is now owned by Nestle and the commercial feed portion is owned by Land O'Lakes Cooperative as LOL/Purina Feeds.

In the 1970's and 80's Purina was King of the Hill in livestock feeding, those days are long gone though.

Jim

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

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Purina is no longer a huge company. And no they did not get to where they are selling bag feed. They used to feed a lot of livestock but that industry has changed. BTW it is Purina Mills- they don't even make the famous cat or dog foods anymore. That was sold to a consumer foods company when the old Purina was sliced and diced and sold off years ago. It is now owned by Land-O-Lakes.

Tyson or Perdue may have single feed production mills that produce more finished feed in a day than all Purina production put together do.

There is more feed milled per week in the zip code where I live and work than any other zip code in the US would. Once upon a long time ago one of the mills was a Purina franchise and fed about 13M layers and pullets. They now have a nutritional firm recomend the formulation and the cooperative buys all the ingredients from primary sources.

 

[ChickInDelight]

Wow. Purina is dead. Long live Purina.

Should I be considering Nutrena feeds? I see my favorite mill has that too.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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The ingredient cost of a commercial layer feed is in the $250 to $300 range today. That is $6.25 to $7.50 per 50/bag. The difference is packaging, manufacturing costs, profit margin, trucking, etc.

You can not compare the price of a Lifestyle feed, such as Layena, with a commercial livestock feed.

Jim