My local feed store has weevils. Like, really bad. Every bag has some sort of weevil in it, inside the bag or on the outside for sure. I bought a bag of rye grass this week and lifted it out of my truck to find a couple hundred weevils on the bed liner of my truck.
this time last year I raised chicks and had three leg issues caused by vitamin deficiency that I assumed was degraded feed.
My horse feed has the most weevils. My chicken feed is typically new enough the weevils are likely coming from other food. I mentioned it to them and they told me to buy DE and mix it into the food. I take issue with this. I don’t use DE because of inhalation risk. I also don’t want to buy a product to treat the food I buy that shouldnt have an issue.
I love to support my local community but am thinking I should get most of my stuff at TSC. They don’t sell my chicken feed but I could drive pretty far (30 min vs 5) to get it if I need to.
what would you do in this situation? Would you continue to buy the weevil feed because it’s just “extra protein”? Would you go elsewhere? Would you have another discussion with the feed store? I don’t think they probably care based on my previous conversation. Maybe a “I have to take all my business elsewhere” would help? Or not.
like I said I love to go there but this is annoying. I feel like they should be doing something either within their storage area or their practices on how much they order and store to handle this issue differently. I feel like the DE solution is questionable at best, dangerous at most. I feel like even the slightest degradation of feed quality is not worth the cost of food. (I buy a fairly atrociously priced non gmo feed that is almost 30.00 per 50 lb)
Am I off base?
this time last year I raised chicks and had three leg issues caused by vitamin deficiency that I assumed was degraded feed.
My horse feed has the most weevils. My chicken feed is typically new enough the weevils are likely coming from other food. I mentioned it to them and they told me to buy DE and mix it into the food. I take issue with this. I don’t use DE because of inhalation risk. I also don’t want to buy a product to treat the food I buy that shouldnt have an issue.
I love to support my local community but am thinking I should get most of my stuff at TSC. They don’t sell my chicken feed but I could drive pretty far (30 min vs 5) to get it if I need to.
what would you do in this situation? Would you continue to buy the weevil feed because it’s just “extra protein”? Would you go elsewhere? Would you have another discussion with the feed store? I don’t think they probably care based on my previous conversation. Maybe a “I have to take all my business elsewhere” would help? Or not.
like I said I love to go there but this is annoying. I feel like they should be doing something either within their storage area or their practices on how much they order and store to handle this issue differently. I feel like the DE solution is questionable at best, dangerous at most. I feel like even the slightest degradation of feed quality is not worth the cost of food. (I buy a fairly atrociously priced non gmo feed that is almost 30.00 per 50 lb)
Am I off base?
