Feed date Question

[Folly's place]

Personally I'm offended by mill dates in code! Why not just put the actual date on each bag? I buy Flock raiser, which has open dating, like all the Purina farm feeds, and it's fresh at the local TSC where I shop.
See what you can find locally that's not making you jump through hoops to discover it's freshness.
Mary

 

[Mossy Dell]

This is the great dilemma. TSC's Dumor brand 16% layer features easy to read regular dates on the bags. I have considered using it and adding a supplement to make up for lower protein, etc. I drove a good 30 mins to a country feed store today to look at their local brand—no dates and not very informative tag but sworn fresh based on Monday deliveries every week from the mill itself. I'd probably use it before the Dumor because it's 20%.

But for now, I am seeding what's possible with other pellets with a little trouble.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Personally I'm offended by mill dates in code! Why not just put the actual date on each bag? I buy Flock raiser, which has open dating, like all the Purina farm feeds, and it's fresh at the local TSC where I shop.
See what you can find locally that's not making you jump through hoops to discover it's freshness.
Mary

I feel you. The ones I hate are like ADM that uses the Julian date.
I think it may be due to the fact that some of these mills are very old with old computer and automation systems that aren't easily converted.
I worked with high end automation systems that were still using octal and hexadecimal language to talk with other computers, robots and equipment. It was awkward. Newer automation equipment is much easier to negotiate but if one knows those number bases they can do virtually any equipment.

 

[aart]

The ones I hate are like ADM that uses the Julian date.

Julian is way better than indecipherable lot numbers.

 

[blackdog043]

Julian is way better than indecipherable lot numbers.

Yep. I totally agree. The mill I buy feed from uses julian. I have a snap shot of the current year on my phone, real quick to see how old it is. Not that I need it, because the oldest feed I have ever gotten was 6 -7 days past mill date, in the past 3 years.

 

[GC-Raptor]

Nutrina Naturewise feeds at my local TSC are easy to decipher. It's on the analysis tag.

February 11, 2020

Purina slightly more difficult. It's on the sew strip on bottom of bag.

January 15, 2020
GC

 

[Mossy Dell]

Thanks, Raptor. Helpful!