Organic Feeds

[dreammaker8482]

I am curious to see if anyone feeds organic chicken feed to their chickens. I know I love organic foods myself and I feed it to my dogs and cat, and they do really on it. Any advice would be great!

 

[kstaven]

I do! If I'm going to be eating the eggs and chicken, I don't want anything else. It is more expensive but I feel my long term health and that of my family is worth it.

 

[CreamPuff]

I agree, I only have 4 hens, I don't worry about the cost, I try to eat all organic when I can find it, so why not eat organic eggs?

 

[Guitartists]

Ran across this on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/Organic-Chicken-Feed-Chicken-Scratch-1-25-lb_W0QQitemZ270220813523QQihZ017QQcategoryZ46532QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

Anybody try something like this? Is that a good price???

 

[momnwife]

Where do you purchase your organic feed? I haven't searched too much yet but need to find a reliable source. Just wondering where other people buy their organic food.

Thanks!
Angie
and my 12 girls

 

[Crunchie]

When I just had a few laying hens, I fed Blue Seal Organic Life layer feed. If you have a local feed store that is a Blue Seal dealer they might be able to special order it for you--that's what my feed store did.

We always eat organically grown produce when it is in season/available and use a lot of natural products, so I felt that it was worth it to do the same for my laying hens. Now that I have several dozen chickens, bottom line is I just cannot afford it--a regular bag of layer feed costs me $12, organic over $20. So now I just feed the non-organic. But if I had only a few hens or had the means to afford it, I would definitely still feed the organic.

 

[TurtleChick]

we feed our 4 girls organic, too (i order it through my work, so with my discount, it costs me the same as if i were paying regular price for non-organic!). as with the other posters, we eat organic whenever possible, too - and want the best for the peeps AND their eggs!

 

[Nichole77]

I used layena but was searching for organic. And my feed store just started carrying it so now they get organic.

 

[kstaven]

We feed a couple hundred chickens on organic feed. Bulk price makes it affordable.

 

[dreammaker8482]

I talked to my feed mill guy today (he is wonderful

) and he is going to start special ordering it for me since I asked him really, really nicely. That made my weekend.