entire flock stopped laying except 2...

[LizzzyJo]

I don't feed mine PELLETS which ARE EQUIVALENT TO BREAD AND WATER FOR A PRISONER.

 

[Skippersnh]

@GodofPecking you gotta be ****ing kidding me about everything I just read on your posts

 

[Skippersnh]

There's no such thing as surgical waste from a vet going into our chickens pellets omg

 

[GodofPecking]

oh, my! Thanks for all the input... I have thought about adding a few lights to add a couple of hours in the morning since I generally get up by 4. I may try that. It just kills me to buy eggs from the store when I have a coop just eating away $$ in feed.

Don't worry about lights, just more interesting food and nice places to lay and nice places to live.

They seem to produce eggs when conditions for raising young are good, and middle of winter can be as good as any other time of year if food and shelter are good. Mine always lay through winter where everyone else in town have no eggs. I think the chickens are really really pushing it sometimes when it is so cold and they've gone broody and it is SO cold they cannot get off the nest to go POOP and I have to clean their nest for them. I don't mind although, omg nothing stinks as much as sitting on nest poop and it hardly washes off your hand, but they still raise the chicks after laying eggs mid winter and get a head start on spring.

Interesting food and small hen-sized nooks and crannies.

 

[GodofPecking]

There's no such thing as surgical waste from a vet going into our chickens pellets omg

Are you kidding me ? Pharmaceutical waste gets into HUMAN food, Why would anyone care what goes into chook food when they don't care what goes into HUMAN food ?

Arsenic goes into commercial chicken food in the United States of America. It's fact.

YUM!!!! -not

I couldn't find the story I was looking for about a company in Europe that makes pills and part of the pill making process is coating the pill in a sugary substance and then washing the pill after that. Now the water used for washing the pill becomes sugary and it's also pilly, and you'd think oh here's an idea lets dispose of that water. Actually you wouldn't think of that because any normal reasonable person WOULDN'T think of it they wouldn't need to they'd just discard the dangerous waste, But Hey! this is a market economy were talking about so instead some genius rich person thinks HEY I CAN SELL THIS WASTE and ships it off in tanker trucks across Europe where it is put into animal feed and ends up in humans. So the hormones are then in the humans where they cause no end of problems.

nice random link which I found when unsuccessfully looking for it.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/29/dangerous-food-practices.aspx

 

[GodofPecking]

I don't have time to watch videos, I have to go do this :

 

[GodofPecking]

There's no such thing as surgical waste from a vet going into our chickens pellets omg

Well mad cows is STILL allowed in chicken pellets isn't it ?

it's perfectly safe to eat chicken raised on pellets, just like it was perfectly safe to eat beef raise on commercial food, what could possibly go wrong.

I think the precautionary principle is that they put it in pellets first, and IF people find out IF there is enough complaint about it IF chickens die IF they can find a link IF we just get sick and never know IF IF IF.

I think I'll just stick to feeding my food things I would eat myself. Except roadkill and maggots, I'll feed my food that, my neighbor didn't like my eggs anymore after I told her I fed the chooks maggots. I teased her about maggot-flovored eggs being YUMMY, MMMM, TASTE THOSE MAGGOTS !!!

 

[GodofPecking]

There's no such thing as surgical waste from a vet going into our chickens pellets omg

Well the whole point of mad cows disease was there would be no mad cows disease if you could wean the rich people making the cow food off feeding sick dead cows to live cows. Without feeding the dead to the living animals, mad cow disease wouldn't have ever been heard about cause it'd hardy exist at all.

So vet turns up and says "Hey I worked out that this cow is dead, that'll be $200 vet bill thanks, and you can dispose of this waste yourself" but cow lot thinks I can't bare to see this vet waste go to waste, I know I'll recycle it ! what could possibly go wrong.

Actually it's not just dead and dying cows that the vet has pronounced which is recycled into our food when people get bright ideas, most dead is recycled, though not always into food thankfully. All the waste from the beef and chicken and so on that we get in restaurants or supermarkets is recycled.

HERE IT IS

Here is a nice link showing lots of pet food sources including Vet waste --> pet food.

https://www.all-creatures.org/aip/nl-20130526-secret.html

 

[GodofPecking]

Respectfully speaking, your posts are extremely hard to follow. It may be partly because I don’t subscribe to your line of reasoning. However, we can all agree to disagree and still be friends, which is a bonus.

Lastly, I find the bolded part above very funny. It leaves me with an image in my mind of you driving down the road looking for unsuspecting varmints maybe a little too close to the road and “ba-bump, screech.” Oh, I got me some more food for my birds!

Side note: I do like to find humor in most anything. No ill will intended.

I love that you love to imagine funny things, and I love that you share such funny thoughts, I'd love to hear any more things that pop into your head, and never worry if my posts require a little bit of thought to follow, a little more effort from the old grey matter, maybe it's gym training to keep the fat people out of the comedy show.

 

[Fueron]

Older birds generally stop laying in the winter, and start again when the days start getting longer. Pullets hatched in the spring will usually lay all winter long. I agree that lighting may help. Layer pellets are just fine for your birds; they have all the nutrients they need.