Organic eggs? questions

[pgpoultry]

I don't sell any of my eggs, though I give a lot away. I always get complimented on their great taste, orange-yellow yolks etc.

Glad to say my girls are truly free range (6 fields), fed on organic food largely and usually robustly healthy.

It concerns me that free range can mean that a hen can have an area only as large as an A4 sheet of paper and still be labelled as 'free range'. I therefore shudder to think what the 'organic' feed contains.

A couple of months ago a producer here in Wales was convicted for selling, 'Locally produced, free range, organic' eggs which turned out to be English standard battery hens eggs. He got a hefty fine and sentence.

Aren't you just glad to be eating your own eggs (and selling them if appropriate)?

Sandie

 

[SportChick]

My family and friends refer to "happy chickens" rather than organic and free range and cage free etc since I no longer trust those terms when I see them but I can imagine what makes a chicken happy or sad (more or less). If you sell at a Farmer's Market, I suggest you post a picture of your flock in their environment and I bet you sell out in minutes!!

 

[Organics North]

Oh yes! I forgot to mention no chemical dewormers for an organic flock either.
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I personally agree with many of you on not "trusting" some of the terms we used to describe things in the past after the big factory farm lawyers get a hold of them and twist them around...

Me, I want to stick by the word organic and want to believe in the standard. Though I will admit it is hard to do at times.

ON

 

[Happy Chooks]

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So what do you deworm them with that's organic?

 

[stampntam]

DE works for deworming

 

[FossilRokRanch]

Local small-scale farmers around here who can't afford the cert fees are using other words to get around the cert thing, like "Organik" or "ER-GAN-NUK"

Or how about this:

Selling Farm-fresh "I'd lie to call these eggs ORGANIC if it wasn't for the fuggin' thousands of dollars I'd have to pay to be able to call them ORGANIC and then raise the price to $5/dz so you feel better about the "certified ORGANIC" label on the carton" eggs.

Always more than 1 way to skin a cat. Personally, I've found 5 ways, with 2 of those ways requiring pliers.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I've been reading about DE, and the articles I read suggest that DE does not deworm.

 

[Pet Duck Boy]

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I've been reading about DE, and the articles I read suggest that DE does not deworm.

What about cayenne pepper? I heard it works good for something natural.

 

[Organics North]

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So what do you deworm them with that's organic?

Good question!
I have not found a good answer yet. Never tried the product Verm-x
http://www.verm-x.com/poultry.html
Still IMO I would not call it a dewormer.

Many herbal worm prevention ideas floating around, but no actual dewormers to my knowledge.

FossilRokRanch,
If your sales are under $5K a year you do not need to pay use the word organic..

ON

 

[stampntam]

Organic Apple cider Vinegar in their water (Braggs), sorry I was wrong about the DE that is for mites and bugs