"You will NEVER find organic electrolytes. Minerals, by definition are non-organic since they contain no carbon. Potassium, phosphorus, sodium, etc... are pure elements. They are not grown, only mined. Remember back to high school chemistry ..."
I do remember high school chemistry and organic chemistry as well. And if minerals are non organic, perhaps then some would say, chickens should not be fed minerals if their eggs are to be certified organic?
I didn't mean 'organic' in the formal sense like containing carbon, I meant 'organic' in the sense the word is commonly used, like 'sounds like something I can give chickens and still get certified as organic, based on the fairly arbitrary and odd criteria one has to meet to get that certification', or even more generally, 'sounds like what people think of as 'organic', or 'sounds like something people purchasing my eggs would think was 'ok''.
No two people see to entirely agree as to what 'organic' means. Some folks seem to think anything that is powdered and comes in a package from a feed store is 'not organic', anything that comes from a health food store is 'organic'.
One lady told me I HAD to buy feed that was sold at a health food store. I checked it out. It came in ten pound bags. It would have cost me approximately 1100 dollars a month to feed my chickens that feed, and my vet did not recommend it as she said it did not have a good % of things like protein and fat and minerals.
One lady told me if I fed my chicks medicated feed to prevent salmonella(something the vet recommended), that meant they weren't 'organic' and she wouldn't buy my eggs, for example, as giving any medication is 'not organic'. Another told me she would not buy my eggs because my chickens had been vaccinated at birth against a serious disease, something the vet also strongly recommended.
Another lady told me that if I fed brand X (certified organic feed), instead of Brand Y (certified organic feed), she would not buy my eggs, because 'Brand X has more wholesome ingredients'. Ok, define wholesome? Well, I don't really know.
When people say, 'is it organic', they don't mean 'does it contain carbon or not', they mean, was it raised without pesticides, commercial fertilizers, commercial drugs, and feed additives they don't like. Those things aren't rejected because they do or don't contain carbon, but because they are seen as negative or harmful.
For some people, it also means management practices like animals spending all or most time pastured, not feeding certain grains(even if organic), not feeding urea, tankage, not feeding any animal products, or any byproducts of the food industry. Everyone has a somewhat different idea of exactly what 'organic' means, what they exclude or include as 'organic'.
Most people around here who sell eggs, don't even seem to TRY for the 'certified organic' label/certification unless (ironically) they have a fairly big commercial operation going. They can get that designation while doing a lot of things that most people wouldn't associate with the word 'organic'.
