My feed

No, the layer feed has all the nutrients that your birds need.
Scratch, free ranging and oyster shells wont have enough nutrients.

 

Good quality fresh layer feed is the best option. It's processed to combine the ingredients thoroughly so the birds don't just pick out the yummy bits and unbalance their diet. Mary

 

Certified organic is produced without herbicides or pesticides; there is a formal (and expensive) process that must be done to advertise and sell as organic. Products not certified organic may have been raised with herbicides and/or pesticides, or not, but the producers haven't gone through the formal program. Most grains in the US are from fields that are treated in some way, unless certified organic. Mary

 

No, it's not. There's an entire list that's multiple pages long published by the USDA organic council on organic approved pesticides. Some of them are very toxic - they're just 'natural'


http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-id...rgn=div6&view=text&node=7:3.1.1.9.32.7&idno=7

 

I stand corrected, and fully realize that "natural" and "non-toxic" are far from the same thing! I don't do certified organic, but do minimize the use of such products. Mary