Gmo's

[Miss Lydia]

Lydia just wondering if you are still feeding the purina flock raiser? Or have you found a better solution. I too am trying to get GMO free. I bought the only organic feed I could find and my chickens do not like it at all, and I had to pay 30.00 a bag. Plus from what I hear just because its Organic doesn't mean it's GMO free.
Horrible what they do to our food. God made it right the first time the more they mess with it the more they screw it up.

Hi Suzierd, still using FR nothing else available here and mine didn't like the Organic I tried them on either. It is way to expensive for them not to like it. I so agree with you on the food being made right the first time, it all about money now,.

 

[Cottage Rose]

For those of you who don't have the time to mix your own non GMO feed...

I did some investigating today and found a local mill that can get a
brand of organic feed that is called Natures Grown which is distributed through Prince Feed.
You can do a zip code search to find a dealer near you via this link (on the left) but this might only be available
in the mid-west but I'm not sure so check it out.
http://www.prince-corp.com/index.cfm/ev ... uresgrown/
Natures Grown is in Wisconsin for those of you in that state who might want to see if you can buy directly from them.
http://www.naturesgrownorganics.com
Call: 1-877-634-3184
Email: [email protected]

I was excited to learn that Natures Grown has a NO SOY 16% or 18% layer!!!
They use Flax for protein. The poultry feeds are all meal form. In addition they will mix up special orders (your own recipe) 500 lb. minimum but that is some thing you can do through your local feed mill as well.


Organic feed source in mid Michigan:
3654 Weidman Rd. ● Rosebush, Michigan 48878 ● Phone: 989-433-2907 ● Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
http://grahamsorganics.com/

You can buy directly from Grahams or they distribute their feed through feed mills throughout Michigan and I have seen their feed at Family Farm & Home Supply stores. https://www.familyfarmandhome.com/inet/ ... e=featured

The following blended feeds are available in 50 lb bags :

Chick Starter
Turkey Starter
Layer Grower
Layer
Broiler Grower
Duck Starter
Duck Grower



Swine Grower
Sheep Grower
Goat 14%
Goat 16%
Calf Starter
Calf Grower
Custom Dairy Blends (10-18%)

Fertrell minerals available:

Aragonite
Cattle Choice 12-12
Dairy # 1 and Dairy #3
Fish Meal
Graziers Choice
Kelp



Poultry Nutri Balancer
Redmond Salt
Rumi-Cult 40
Sheep Nutri-Balancer
Swine Nutri-Balancer
Vitamin E & Selenium

Also available:

Whole corn
Cracked Corn
Whole Oats
Roasted Soybeans

 

[Cottage Rose]

P.S. With the feed prices sky rocketing (I'm paying almost $19. for 50# multi-flock) I'm finding that the organic feed is sometimes only a few dollars more.
If your birds are healthier, more fertile and produce more live offspring then the added expense just makes sense.

 

[Cottage Rose]

Lydia just wondering if you are still feeding the purina flock raiser? Or have you found a better solution. I too am trying to get GMO free. I bought the only organic feed I could find and my chickens do not like it at all, and I had to pay 30.00 a bag. Plus from what I hear just because its Organic doesn't mean it's GMO free.
Horrible what they do to our food. God made it right the first time the more they mess with it the more they screw it up.

You can make your own feed in small batches. I have a recipe using Fertrell vitamins & minerals & fish meal on my websites tip page
or there are any number of recipes available online or in books you can get from the library.
If you are raising chickens or waterfowl for fresh eggs or meat you might want another source of protein such as flax or meat protein because
fish meal can some times make eggs or meat fishy tasting.
I believe you can get pork protein and its called porcine. These are products your local feed dealer should be able to order for you.
Fertrell has distributors through out the country. Go to their website to find a dealer near you.

 

[Wooie]

I have been passionate about it here in California. It's bigger than just health I found out. Get this, if you value our U.S. Constitution like I do this will piss you off to no end. OK, Under the constitution concerning patents, anything can be patented and is protected by law once patented. This applies to everything with the exception of food. Plants and animals can not be patented. This is to protect an individual's right to grow their own food.
Now, Monsanto has found a loop hole. He has gotten his seeds from gene spliced crops patented. You can not save seeds from your crop if it is from his original seed. That is patent infringement. If your non GMO crop has been cross pollinated by his product that is patent infringement. It also disqualifies your crop from being organic. He has a whole section of employees that monitor his seed buyers and they trespass on neighboring properties and test those crops. If they have been cross pollinated Monsanto takes that farmer to court and sues for all he can get thereby pretty much putting that farmer out of business which puts up that property for sale to the bigger agribusiness farmers that use Monsanto's seed. So, Food is no longer protected by our constitution.
Now for the bee collapse, There was one bee guy in Iowa. He has been studying his bee colony for 15 years. his study was on the affects of Monsanto's GMO crops and the Roundup herbicide used on them. He found a correlation between the two and had the scientific proof and was getting ready to publish it. Monsanto got the Iowa Ag dept. to go in and confiscate all of this guy's bees, equipment and even his records. This was done while the guy was not at home, with out a warrant and the local judges won't touch it. The reason? Said his hive was sick. This is not the usual due process a bee keeper usually gets by the Ag dept. if his bees are suspected to be sick.
Monsanto is actively trying to get our politicians to pull sanctions against 64 countries that don't allow GMO's or require labeling of them for unfair trade.
Obama promised to get GMO's labeled in his first election. He never even approached congress with it at all. To ad insult to injury he turned around and appointed one of Monsanto's men as food czar in charge of the FDA which says which products may be put on the market as safe. There has been no long studies on GMO's by the FDA. Independent studies have been attacked by Monsanto, the labs bought by Monsanto and the scientists of the studies fired, sanctioned or harassed and threatened.
It's more than just about health and it's bigger than California.
Here are some good groups on FaceBook if you use it. Mother Earth News, Food Warrior Network, Yes on Prop 37 (still up and going because we aren't giving up), and Grow Food not Lawns. Grow Food Not Lawns is a really great group. If you like to garden there are people that put their really neat ideas up on it. For example: toilet paper rolls make great little seed starter pots.

 

[Cottage Rose]

Was very disappointed to hear Prop 37 didn't pass and WHY NOT???

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Vicky because the big companies had MILLIONS to spend verse the hundreds of thousand spent hoping to get it passed. There is a large group of us involved in this effort, if you are on Facebook I can point you to the group and info

 

[Cottage Rose]

Oh I know dang it, but whats to stop more people from getting out there to vote it in?

 

[Miss Lydia]

You can make your own feed in small batches. I have a recipe using Fertrell vitamins & minerals & fish meal on my websites tip page
or there are any number of recipes available online or in books you can get from the library.
If you are raising chickens or waterfowl for fresh eggs or meat you might want another source of protein such as flax or meat protein because
fish meal can some times make eggs or meat fishy tasting.
I believe you can get pork protein and its called porcine. These are products your local feed dealer should be able to order for you.
Fertrell has distributors through out the country. Go to their website to find a dealer near you.

I found 1 dealer of Fertrell and they are about 60 miles from me one way and they sell small bags which was so expensive theres no way I could buy it. I was very disappointed.

 

[Wooie]

I'm on FB and I am subcribed to California Right to Know. Mother Earth news, Food Warriors network, and Grow food not lawns. There's a rumor that a bunch of ballots got thrown out. Trying to fact check it now. Will let everyone know. They are going to try and get proposals in Washington and Oregon now like our 37. We lost the battle but the war ain't over yet!!!