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Hey, where's Roberta?
You all have had me cracking up the past couple of days. Great to read the posts while this gloomy weather continues.
Suzanne, love the new avatar.
Heather, I saw where you were asking about feed with no GMOs. I did the organic feed for a while and got a bad batch once. I played around and went from one to the other and from soy to soy-free. The last one I used had fish meal as the protein booster and boy did the poop smell. Also, the feed said it was organic, but there is no organic fish meal, so I'm not sure how it still qualifies as Organic. Since the beginning of the year I went with Purina Layena Plus Omega and have noticed larger yolks and the one chicken that always layed distorted eggs seems to be laying mostly normal ones. I still use UltraKibble on occasion as an added booster, but a lot less Than I had been using before. I don't eat organic all the time and I felt the nutritional components are more consistent in a good commercial feed. They have the nutritionists on staff and the answered the questions I emailed them right away. Plus, the codes the bags I get tell me the date of manufacture and the mill. Presently, the feed comes from Purina's mill in NY. Purina also makes an organic feed, but it is only available on the west coast. I would rather not use GMO corn or whatever, but in a few years they wll all be cross pollinated and I'm not going to obsess and make myself crazy anymore over it. My chickens ate what I thought was better than I did for almost a year. Now they seem to need less feed, lay better eggs and their poop doesn't stink. Plus my wallet is happier about the change. $16 for 40lbs. instead of almost $40 for 50lbs. (with shipping,) makes economic sense for me too. Regular Layena is about $15.50 for 50lbs. I'm sure this is more than you wanted to know, but I did do a lot of research on feeds.
Carolyn, Happy Anniversary! 52 years. Simply wonderful.
Have a good night, all. Time for me to go to roost.
You all have had me cracking up the past couple of days. Great to read the posts while this gloomy weather continues.
Suzanne, love the new avatar.
Heather, I saw where you were asking about feed with no GMOs. I did the organic feed for a while and got a bad batch once. I played around and went from one to the other and from soy to soy-free. The last one I used had fish meal as the protein booster and boy did the poop smell. Also, the feed said it was organic, but there is no organic fish meal, so I'm not sure how it still qualifies as Organic. Since the beginning of the year I went with Purina Layena Plus Omega and have noticed larger yolks and the one chicken that always layed distorted eggs seems to be laying mostly normal ones. I still use UltraKibble on occasion as an added booster, but a lot less Than I had been using before. I don't eat organic all the time and I felt the nutritional components are more consistent in a good commercial feed. They have the nutritionists on staff and the answered the questions I emailed them right away. Plus, the codes the bags I get tell me the date of manufacture and the mill. Presently, the feed comes from Purina's mill in NY. Purina also makes an organic feed, but it is only available on the west coast. I would rather not use GMO corn or whatever, but in a few years they wll all be cross pollinated and I'm not going to obsess and make myself crazy anymore over it. My chickens ate what I thought was better than I did for almost a year. Now they seem to need less feed, lay better eggs and their poop doesn't stink. Plus my wallet is happier about the change. $16 for 40lbs. instead of almost $40 for 50lbs. (with shipping,) makes economic sense for me too. Regular Layena is about $15.50 for 50lbs. I'm sure this is more than you wanted to know, but I did do a lot of research on feeds.
Carolyn, Happy Anniversary! 52 years. Simply wonderful.
Have a good night, all. Time for me to go to roost.
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