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RoboDuck said:
Let's go with baby Spinner shark.
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This slender, gray-bronze shark is often mistaken for a blacktip shark, although the spinner is usually larger and has a black tip on its anal fin.

least I was in the ball field, lol
guess your not on the menu,
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PapaChaz said:
as soon as I changed back to buying feed at TSC, the funky shell issue went away. Deductive reasoning would say it had to be the feed, because it was different hens in different pens, not always just the same hen
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Interesting. I would switch too. As much as I want to support a "local guy", if you don't get good results, it's not worth the effort.
 
Lookin4GoodLife said:
Interesting. I would switch too. As much as I want to support a "local guy", if you don't get good results, it's not worth the effort.
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About the chicken feed. About a month ago, I switched to a 'local' feed stores feed. (A few dollars cheaper) but it said it was for layers and breeder. A few weeks later I was only getting 3-6 eggs a day from 30+ hens. Yeah, some don't lay anymore, but what about the others! Then I noticed that a few of the juveniles (3-4 months old) were not really growing much. Went in one day and the male Polish was being walked all over. Put him in infirmary. He couldn't stand up. Two days later, another Juvie was dead. No signs of sickness other than I knew she didn't seem to grow any over the past few weeks. A few days later another Juvenile was sick but she had an obvious impacted crop. (Probably stuffed herself with fresh grass clippings) Then I noticed another juvie was staggering. At this point I am thinking the worst.....Merek's disease and I am freaking out! I'm thinking all my chickens are going to die! The Polish was at deaths door. Would eat if you put the food right under him, but couldn't stand or anything. But, I still had the old food. Well, I was looking up Merek's disease and came across some articles that said there can be something wrong with your chickens that mimics Merek's disease and it is nutrition related....kind of like rickets in humans.....SOOOOO, I switched back to my good stuff from TS. Feeding the chickens that now for about 4 days. The almost dead, couldn't walk Polish is now mostly up and walking around. The other juvie, the same. The one with the impacted crop died. None of the sick chickens had any weird eye thing going or other symptoms like Mereks. Just weak and couldn't walk. Also, my other chickens are starting to lay again.....14+ a day.

So, I will never go back to local feed again! It's just not worth the few dollars extra for the good stuff! The sad thing is that both the pullets that died were going to be my dark egg layers.....one was my Welsummer and one was my Golden Cuckoo Marans! Bummer!
 
Last year, I went through the same thing, lost chickens couldn't figure out, Thought I was a bad chicken mom. Then I figured it was bad feed from the local guy, maybe they weren't rotating the feed, but what ever it was I too only buy from TS. I noticed that you can tell the quality of the feed by how the chickens eat it.
 
Off topic question on feed (not that there is such a thing as on-topic on this board :)).

Any thoughts on whether or not it would be good for the birds to feed them whole sunfish (either boiled or raw)? My kids love catching them up at the lake and they are too small to filet/eat for us. Seems like I could ice a bunch of the little fish down when caught, boil them (or not) and just feed them to the chickens whole. I would think it would be an excellent protein supplement.

Has anyone tried this or have an opinion either way?
 

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