Walmart scratch?

[Tanichca]

Hello! Little short on time, but how good is the scratch you buy at Walmart for feeding your flock? My sis says it has a lot of junk in it.

 

[draye]

I've bought it and my chickens ate it betterr than what I got from the farmers co-op.

 

[CapricornFarm]

well for one thing it only has 40 lbs instead of 50. But better than nothing if you are out

 

[Tanichca]

Just wanted to be sure. Big sis said that that feed had feces and plastic in it

but I just need some to get me through the next few weeks, until after the holiday.

 

[Clay Mudd]

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Well... after all, it is Walmart!

 

[BamaSilkies]

I dont use scatch as feed only a treat. I use 16% crumbles and 18 or 20% protein pellets whichever I can get every morning and then in the evening before they go up for the night they get a couple of handfuls of scratch. They need the extra calories in the winter to stay warm. As far as Wal-mart goes not sure I would buy feed there. I would buy locally produced feed at co-op. Its been handled less and keeps the money in your community and not sent somewhere else.

 

[Tanichca]

Most of the time, I buy from a local family-owned feed store here. But my family doesn't have much money at all right now, and that store sells scratch at $17 as compared to $11 at walmart.
I feed scratch as feed for a few months a year, have been for years, and I never have anything bad happen.

 

[Stephanie739]

I thought this would save me $4 but it was more like a waste of $7

My birds were not too fond of it, but I guess they might have just been used to their usual crumble. I suppose if I would have mixed the scratch with the crumble and gradually fed it to them, I might have had better luck.

 

[Stephanie739]

Oh for the record, I have no problem with Walmart quality. I might try the scratch again. My kids and I eat Walmart food and don't have any problems.

 

[Opa]

Recently Hope broke an egg and found a rice grain sized piece of metal in it. Has anyone else every gotten a foreign object in a egg?