would this be too much protein?!?

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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Actually it is Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition. That might be just a bit more indepth than "Feed Store Education".

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

I'd be interested in seeing the tag for this feed.

Jim

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

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Actually it is Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition. That might be just a bit more indepth than "Feed Store Education".

Yeah.
You should hear how a fluid dynamics engineer gets lectured about air and water movement!​

 

[Taylor]

how can the soybeans be genetically modified??? seriously they are harvested and dried and mixed with corn and there you go, can't get more natural than that. he said he adds calcium and flax seed as well, so it seems pretty balanced, and mine are free-range as well so they get what they need. you just pull up under the mill and open your drums and they drop it in there. and best yet he grows everything there on his farm as far as i know, the reason he does it because there are alot of poultry raisers around my area and i guess we like to buy our feed in bulk sizes. how do you think our ancestors fed their chickens?? they didn't have layer pellets, cage free laying mash, and all that animal by product feeds. they just let them free-range and they would just throw corn out to them everyday and that was it. if they were lucky they would get soybeans. and nothing beat them country grown eggs from grandma's kitchen

 

[Taylor]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

I'd be interested in seeing the tag for this feed.

Jim

there ain't no tag on it, you go pick it up in 55gal drums. all it is is corn, soybeans, flax seeds,calcium and i like to add diatomaceous earth as well to my feed.​

 

[ChestnutRidge]

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"Genetically modified" means that the company which sells the seed has inserted pieces of foreign DNA into the genetic sequence of the soy beans and corn, generally to make them resistant to herbicide so that farmers can spray their fields without killing their crop along with the weeds. The company then patents this genetic sequence. Most of the corn and soybeans grown in the US are genetically modified and have been since the late 1990s.

 

[Chris09]

Taylor,
Don't take this the wrong way but that feed is no were near balanced and I hope that the Soybean that he is using is at least roasted and not just dyed.

Chris

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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I agree with Chris on this. If it were me I'd ask him some specific questions about whether the soybeans have been processed in some way because raw soybeans are bad for your birds. I'd also ask him about the specific supplements he's adding to the basic corn/soy blend besides the the calcium and the flax seed. In the fat of the year good free-range will cover a lot of nutritional sins, but come late fall through early spring, drought periods, and so on, a poorly compounded feed will hurt you.

I suspect however that if he's mixing and selling feed to a lot of folks in the area he's using a proper recipe. But you won't know if you do not ask.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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there ain't no tag on it, you go pick it up in 55gal drums. all it is is corn, soybeans, flax seeds,calcium and i like to add diatomaceous earth as well to my feed.

So there"ain't" no vitamins or trace minerals? What about phosphorus and salt? Is the methionine level adequate?

I think you are asking for trouble using this "feed"

Jim

 

[Buff-Island-Australorp]

I'm so confused.