Has Purina changed its Flock Raiser?

[Perris]

You miss my point, but <shrug>

let me try again then, borrowing something ChickenCanoe posted for the purpose
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/feed-date-code-translation.1249955/post-20057378

 

[aart]

let me try again then

Your tag does not give the manufacturing date, period.

 

[Perris]

Your tag does not give the manufacturing date, period.

no that one doesn't, but I really do not understand your problem when there are 11 months to run before the 'best before date'. How many foods in your larder, never mind your chickens', have 11 months to run before their best before date is up?

 

[Huntmaster]

no that one doesn't, but I really do not understand your problem when there are 11 months to run before the 'best before date'. How many foods in your larder, never mind your chickens', have 11 months to run before their best before date is up?

I wouldn't feed my birds anything over 3 months old and I really don't like that old of feed but would feed it if I had to, but I don't have to, but the only way to know that is to know the milling date no matter how its printed-on label/tag/bottom of bag.

 

[Perris]

I wouldn't feed my birds anything over 3 months old and I really don't like that old of feed but would feed it if I had to, but I don't have to, but the only way to know that is to know the milling date no matter how its printed-on label/tag/bottom of bag.

The feed in question is whole grains, nature's method for preserving nutrients, and generally good for at least a year. So it hasn't been milled.

 

[Huntmaster]

The feed in question is whole grains, nature's method for preserving nutrients, and generally good for at least a year. So it hasn't been milled.

Thought we were talking milling/manufacturing dates?

 

[Perris]

The Julian system is better than what some companies use, which can be totally undecipherable.
What do they use in your country?

Coming back to this (since the thread went completely off the rails distracted by what we do here for whole grain sacks), the most famous thing about the Julian calendar is that it was introduced to sort out a chaotic earlier system that had got 3 months adrift of the seasons. I cannot fathom why Purina replaced a clear day, month e.g. 8 Feb as per SueT's op with a number counting from (presumably) Jan 1/001. Does anyone know?

 

[Huntmaster]

I would rather know the date of manufacture rather than the best buy date....
...unless you can accurately assume they all have a 'shelf life' of 12 months(which seems excessive to me). Shelf life here t most farm stores is supposed to be 6 months.

That's really low protein at 10%...more like a scratch snack than a main feed.

As you can see from the one I posted, they usually get it 1 month old, or thereabouts, so the shelf life is academic. The point is it is very easy to see how fresh or old the feed is.

I wouldn't feed my birds anything over 3 months old and I really don't like that old of feed but would feed it if I had to, but I don't have to, but the only way to know that is to know the milling date no matter how its printed-on label/tag/bottom of bag.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Pre-Digital printing, Julian was much easier for the machines that did the printing.

Post-Digital printers, I have to suspect that either they didn't want the information present in a form any idiot could read at a glance, or more likely, their buyers didn't want any idiot to be able to read at a glance.

and personally, I could not give a ____ about an Mfg's "best buy" date, since there is no standard whatsoever for those dates. With the mill date, I can make my own decision.

That said, I might be a more discriminating consumer than many or most, it at least some of my purchasing decisions.

 

[Jabroni]

Coming back to this (since the thread went completely off the rails distracted by what we do here for whole grain sacks), the most famous thing about the Julian calendar is that it was introduced to sort out a chaotic earlier system that had got 3 months adrift of the seasons. I cannot fathom why Purina replaced a clear day, month e.g. 8 Feb as per SueT's op with a number counting from (presumably) Jan 1/001. Does anyone know?

They could have just switched the software/laser printing system. Or they could have changed format to be consistent with what other brands do for comparison/analysis reasons. Or they got a new type of documentation/analysis software that needs a specific format. Let's say they want to do something like a shelf-life/degradation study compared to other brand x. Much easier to just pop lot numbers into an excel sheet that will auto-calculate the age of feed. This would also eliminate calculation errors from the incorrect formatting of Excel columns for dating and from the spacing.

I was the lab grunt, I mean Quality Control Specialist, that did these types of studies. When I moved on to an engineering lab, I was the grunt that validated the testing instruments & anslysis software. One of our instruments' software would not work on anything but Windows 98 OS.

TL;DR these decisions are made for dumber reasons than you might think