Plymouth Rock thread!

[DMRippy]

Your guys' feed cost makes me want to puke. 

I won't even tell you ours...

But it's over $15... closer to $20 and it is not great feed. 

Organic: Closer to $40! 



This is why I soak it. Helps with the feed costs. 

I calculated food savings a week and it was $26.32 in savings between dry and wet. 

it can be that high here too. I do buy some chick starter that is $17 a bag and if I buy from TSC it is over $18. you have to shop around. I used to buy from a local mill but it was soy and very dusty loved them and the feed but preferred the meat in the feed.

 

[Ashburnham]

The next generation of Barred Rocks - with a few interlopers.
Showing great viability - I have so far sold 4 dozen eggs from them for $25 a dozen

 

[aoxa]

it can be that high here too. I do buy some chick starter that is $17 a bag and if I buy from TSC it is over $18. you have to shop around. I used to buy from a local mill but it was soy and very dusty loved them and the feed but preferred the meat in the feed.

We have:

Blueseal
Purina
Co-Op
& Shur Gain

That is all we have here. The most expensive is Blueseal, followed by Co-Op (local), Purina Mills, and Shur-Gain cheapest. I do not like the Shur-Gain feed, and don't want to do Purina. I go with Co-Op because it's local and the service is the best out of all of them. None of these feeds have animal protein. I have to supplement it. I plan to eventually mix my own. I can go through co-op and get rid of the soybean meal and ask for fish meal. I also want to get rid of the corn in it.

I'm not so concerned about it being organic, but I'd love to have GMO free food for them.

 

[DMRippy]

I can get my own feed mixed but they would use soy so why bother? my co-op is not so nice.....they are really the last place I want to do business with.

 

[aoxa]

I can get my own feed mixed but they would use soy so why bother? my co-op is not so nice.....they are really the last place I want to do business with.

I'm really lucky. The guys that work at our co-op really like us, and know us by name. They joke with us, give us sound advice and are just all around great people.

Wish soy wasn't so common in feed

 

[aoxa]

My Barred Plymouth Rocks are 3 weeks old now. The SPPR are 4 weeks. Going through awkward stages! Some of the Barred Rocks are very slow to feather in. They are all slow, but some have next to nothing in terms of feathers.

 

[Penny Hen]

I can get my own feed mixed but they would use soy so why bother? my co-op is not so nice.....they are really the last place I want to do business with.

Someone on BYC was telling me that they used a small cement mixer to mix their own feeds. At my level of broke that is still too expensive for me but I just realized that a compost tumbler that has never been used for compost could mix small batches too and they can be found for $99. We have a grain mill just 20 minutes away, in Springfield, Tn. I just need to get enough 55 gallon storage drums because the lowest amount they sell in is 1/2 ton. I have sheep and mini horses too so I just wouldn't be buying for my birds.

 

[Peneliva]

Roo or pullet? 8 weeks old!!! All pictures of the same chickie.

 

[Fred's Hens]

It is a pullet. If it were a cockerel, it would already have red wattles and a red comb.

 

[MEMama3]

Roo or pullet? 8 weeks old!!!

I'm going with pullet.