Will NOT be buying TSC feeds again

[Andora]

I feed all of my birds 18% mash, including the chicks. They seem to be doing great on it.

Did you know those little bags of oyster shell at TSC cost $7? At my local feed store they sell 50 pounds of oyster shell for $8.30. Can you believe that? I was shocked today when I went in and asked how much their oyster shell was.

50 pounds of oyster shell would last eternity.

Good thing they also sell it by the pound, 20 cents a pound.

 

[wormy270]

I actually switched from Southern States to TSC. The SS feed hatched out a couple million little white mites in the bag. I have noticed larger poop on the TSC. I will be looking for something better.

 

[threehorses]

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I'm glad your feedstore sells by the pound. At mine, some make you buy the whole thing ..which I've done - and actually 50 pounds is a smaller bag than you'd think but still..... FOR-E-VER! lol Same thing with big bags of pigeon mineralized grit. But our stores here - some will look at you as if you've asked them "I'd like to buy a bag of alien eyeballs please" if you ask them about buying oyster shell.

So for a small flock, the little bags can be a good starter.

Last time I bought oyster shell, I didn't get oyster shell. I got something that was like gravel. The small-bag oyster shell definitely was oyster shell. (I'm going to see if they don't carry the larger bags as I'm expecting more chickens.) But the other worked. I had been slacking and had a layer whose eggs weren't sort, weren't even leathery, but had one spot on the side where they weren't firming up right. So we changed to that and now her eggs are lovely with some nice little calcium deposits on the end, just a few - just like I like them.

 

[crtrlovr]

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I have been using the Purina Sunfresh feeds for my chickens, and I let my supply get too low and ran out. The place I normally get it was out and wasn't going to get any for 2 days, so I went to Southern States here. The folks who run it are super nice, but I wasn't thrilled with the feed. It had weevils in the scratch grains (and a gazillion on the outside of the bag; wish I'd seen that before they loaded it and I drove home with it) and I didn't care for the smell or texture of the food. It was too fine with lots of dust. I will do my best not to run out of the Purina again. It's (IMHO) far better quality than the TSC or the SS.

 

[gaberdeen]

Boy reading all these posts has been quite interesting. I've been feeding the bird the dumor right from the beginning so I've had nothing to compare it with. I'm gonna have to go seek out some purina.

 

[card5640]

Down with Dumor!! I had always gotten feed at our Blue Seal and loved it. Anew TSC store went in near my folks so I picked up the laying feed. My hens stopped laying after 3 days of being on it. Poop was huge and grey and stunk! Im using it for cat litter. I went back to my old feed and w/in 2 days they have been back to their old laying patterns.
Egg or pellet crumbles makes the best cat litter and is really cheap, I got this idea from a Vet and never went back to perfumed litter.

 

[dave3877]

i got some bluebonnet scratch from tsc once. might have been producers pride. casnt remember. either way it was garbage. very poor even for hen scratch and you could have filled a sandbox with the dust in it. i usew bryant grain and if they are sold out i use lone star or nutrena. never buy feed at tsc youll only hurt your wallet and make your chickens poop into bricks lol

 

[threehorses]

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Wouldn't have been bluebonnet. Their grains are exceptionally clean and dust-free (if kept right - remember the feedstore's storage has a lot to do with it). I'm very very highly picky about which feeds I call exceptional and my experiences with bluebonnet have always been thus.

Down here though MG is the one that is crap. A friend emailed me and said she switched feeds, didn't remember the brand, but it was like ground up Cat Litter. I told her "that's MG". Sure enough - it was.

I have to say - I've read some Dumor labels and wasn't at all impressed by a few. Like the 15% grower/finisher? Seriously, 15%? I thought someone was joking. I've also heard alot about big stinky droppings when using it - makes me wonder what quality of ingredient goes into it.

OMG i never thought about laying feed for cat litter!! Maybe I should go buy some more MG!

 

[trilyn]

Deleted because I forgot I posted on this thread before!! *smacks myself in forehead*

 

[Bosque]

Has anyone tried the Family Farms brand from Wallyworld? Is that an OK feed?