Feed deal on craigslist... What do you think?

[City Chicken]

Would you go for this deal? Why or why not?


High protein livestock feed. 26% to 28% protein. $150.00 a ton or $25.00 a bucket, picked up in bulk in Buckingham county, Va. This is a all grain feed. A mixture of soybean meal, grain dust, whole soybeans, corn, wheat, oats and barley. Great feed for cows, calfs, pigs, goats, sheep, chickens and must other livestock.

 

[Kelsie2290]

We can get something similar to that mix, or spent brewers grains, sometimes here. It is listed at 28% protein and is about half the price of regular chicken feed by the pound. It is usually really finely ground, almost a powder, which is my main problem with it, it is hard to get the chickens to eat it. When I have fed it I mixed it with regular chicken feed mash to the protein % i wanted and fed it as a wet mash so they would eat it. If you are trying to raise the protein % of what you are feeding I don't think you can find a cheaper way of doing it.

 

[redsoxs]

I don't know enough about the content of chicken feed to know if what is advertised is what they need...but the price sure seems right. Bet my turkeys would go for it!

 

[EpicBlueAcres]

I dont know if you need to watch your costs or not but my thought is you are putting so much time and effort into these birds why cheap out now? My theory is put the best food possible into their bodies will in turn be putting the best possible in your (and your families) bodies. Just my opinion I have egg birds but am researching into getting my own meat birds for healther living

 

[EpicBlueAcres]

sorry computer keeps double posting my posts

 

[City Chicken]

Well, im not doing organic right now, too expensive. So i thought this might not be a bad choice....

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Make sure the soybeans are roasted.

 

[City Chicken]

Y?

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

One ton of Soybean meal costs about $475 right now while a ton of raw Soybeans costs over $500 and wheat is over $225.

Something does not add up unless the "Grain Dust" is a high mixture of that feed. I'd steer because of the grain dust and because this looks like a deal that is too good to be true, something doesn't add up.

jim

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

Y?

Soybeans naturally contain a trypsin inhibitor. This compound blocks the activity of trypsin and chymotrypsin in the intestines that are used to digest proteins. I the soybeans are not heated the protein digestibility of the feed is greatly reduced and can lead to sickness in the animal.