Is Nutrena feed okay?

[Nyna]

Hi! The feed store in my town only carries Nutrena feed. Is this brand an okay feed? I want to get the Layer Pellets. Has anyone had good/bad production with this?

 

[Alleyoops25]

That is a brand that we buy. It works well here, and I did read the ingredients list on Nutrena and compared it to some of the other brands of feed. It was either about the same as the other feed, or was a little better. Our chickens seem to be doing fine on it, and havent had any problems with productions with it. I would say you made a pretty good choice.

 

[MayberrySaint]

As long as you don't mind supporting a large, multi-national corporation that helps put family farmers out of business and if a large confinement producer of pigs and poultry...go right ahead...

Nutrena Feeds is owned by Cargill, Inc.

If you can ever purchase feed from a cooperative in your area, it is a much better practice economically. Cooperatives are usually farmer-owned and a large percentage of their profits go back to the owner-members instead of to shareholders in the case of corporations like Cargill.

My apologies in advance if you own stock in Cargill...lol.

 

[speckledhen]

Yeah, I'm not thrilled with Nutrena for that reason because I have a beef with Cargill over NAIS, but other than that, in my area, they put antibiotics in the chick starter in addition to Amprolium. I refused to buy it because of that.

 

[xrayman]

I use their feed and have never had a problem.

 

[chic-o-stik]

Thanx Mayberry for the info.. I was not aware that they are part of cargil..

 

[JarrodnJojo2016]

As long as you don't mind supporting a large, multi-national corporation that helps put family farmers out of business and if a large confinement producer of pigs and poultry...go right ahead...

Nutrena Feeds is owned by Cargill, Inc.

If you can ever purchase feed from a cooperative in your area, it is a much better practice economically. Cooperatives are usually farmer-owned and a large percentage of their profits go back to the owner-members instead of to shareholders in the case of corporations like Cargill.

My apologies in advance if you own stock in Cargill...lol.

What is a better feed to use??

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Are all your chickens currently laying? If not, you might consider switching to a grower or all-flock formula, it will have higher protein and less calcium. By providing oyster shell in a separate vessel, the laying hens who need it can help themselves and the non-layers will ignore it. Apparently too much calcium can be harmful to the kidneys of non-layers.

 

[AGeese]

If it were only 2007 again...