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The chicken feed controversy is all over my chicken pages especially BYC. I buy my chicken feed from Rural King and haven't had any issues. We got 14 eggs today from our 16 layers. This is what I feed mine. I do my best to spoil my chickens 💜
Country Road Layer Pellets $14.29
NatureWise Chick Starter Grower $20.99
Country Road Scratch Grains $14.99
Manna Pro Oyster Shell $14.99
Spices➡️Parsley $1
Oregano $1
Crushed Red Pepper $1
Thyme $1
Cat food $15
Black Oil Sunflower Seeds 40 pounds $24 all mixed together in a 55 gallon barrel. Yes I am that crazy chicken lady 😂
I know nothing about farming. How much would you guess it costs you to “produce “ a dozen eggs?
I like that list!
YEE YEE! Same was happening with my chickens. Without naming any brands….. I switched to an organic feed to test the theory and lo and behold my girls started laying again. Not sure what’s going on but I’m happy they are laying again.
Did you know that you can save a BUNCH of money by making your own chicken feed? Black sunflower seed, mullet, rye, wheat, rolled oats, and cracked corn. Big savings, for sure. Also, be sure to give them your table scraps.
@@TheSuesido a 10lb bag of black Sun Flower seeds is $20 rolled oats $70 for 50lb Rye is $60 for 100lb I don't know where you would save the money at a 50lb bag of scratch grain is $15 and a 50lb bag Of Laying mesh is $16.99 i with 32 chickens 6 mallards 6 quail pay about $80-$100 a month and there all Fat and Happy 🙊 ya gotta help me out here 🤷🏽♂️
@@Rockhead81 YIKES! Point taken. My experience is not the same as what others might experience. Thanks for pointing it out! For me, a 50lb bag of feed is, at best, $26. At a locally owned feed mill it costs me around $18 to make 50lbs of a mixed blend of feed. So, Lesson #1: Don't expect that everyone else everywhere pays the same (lol), and Lesson Two: Shop around for what works for you.
Chicken feed: what would be the motivation to stop layers from laying eggs? For the feed companies to lose their market for layer feed? Do we really think ALL of the feed companies would comply? This is still a free country where businesses want to succeed and get ahead. I work for a global livestock feed company and this would never fly at our place.
We are in an egg deficit in the US right now because of highly pathogenic avian influenza. Flocks have been destroyed to stop the spread of the disease. This is the reason the price of eggs is so high right now, along with high input costs (high grain prices, diesel, etc). I cannot justify a reason for a conspiracy to reduce egg numbers.
@@ericfarrand5534 I have a great deal of respect for what you do. Personally, I have never been called a conspiracy theorist, but there are simply far too many "oddities" going on that are crushing our food supply, and far too many things happening that stink of the government demanding we totally rely on them for everything. Food for thought, have you ever read 1984? Perhaps read it, especially about Soylent Green . It sounds hauntingly similar to what is happening now. Recall when Venezuela (hardly a third world country) was taken over by radical socialist globalists.....at the very least I believe people need to continue to discuss the "oddities" they see before someone tells us all not to believe what we see for ourselves.
Keep an eye on where the tree roots go, years ago my 4-H leader burned a tree stump and a shallow root reached her horse barn and caught it on fire. It was about 2 weeks after the tree stump was burned, so the fire burned under ground for weeks.
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I've heard of this as well.
me too....
Same kind of thing happened to my brother but thankfully they got it out before it got to their house.
I hope Granger see's all your posts about the roots of the fire burning for weeks and burning down a barn, I read three comments in a row! I hope him or Amber sees these posts, maybe somebody could tag him! 💕
I live in the desert in CA. When there are fires part of the crew will stay and poke the ground with long poles to see if there is fire. Sometimes after a couple of weeks a joshua tree will explode due to the building of heat and it releases in ground through the plants to reach air. Might want to reach out to the fire department and ask them to check for you.... be safe.
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for my hubby and I. We got good news yesterday. He might be able to come off the oxygen after he has the hernia surgery.
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I heard about it on "Keep it Dutch", I stopped doing business with Tractor Supply because they're going against my Christian values. Yes, this Gov't is trying to sabotage a lot of things, people need to do their homework. God Bless y'all. John V. Michigan. Love ya guys
I was first made aware on another CZcams couple..They returned much needed equipment, no business with TSC anymore..
I switched from Tractor Supply feed to Rural King food and they began laying eggs again within a week‼️‼️. If necessary, I’ll mix my own feed. I saw one lady added sunflower seeds and wheat to goat pellets and same thing: her chickens started laying again right away. Something nutritional is missing out of Tractor Supply chicken feed.
I talked to a buddy who tells me that any food made by Purina or made and branded something else i.e., Tractor Supply, is actually missing some minerals needed for egg production. Switch to any food not made by Purina.
Yes, big difference between manufactured feed that is missing nutrients as opposed to companies deliberately putting something into the feed to stop egg production. It's like buying cheap junk food and expecting to be fully healthy.
I had a tree stump in my front yard that burned almost 2 months like that before it ever stopped.. and then my yard started sinking in spots lol
My chickens used to lay all year round. This past summer I started feeding 16% protein crumbles from Tractor Supply. They stopped laying daily, and a couple stopped laying altogether. I chalked it up to seasonal change and maybe a little moulting. All winter I have been fortunate to get one egg a day. The whole drag queen thing came up and we stopped doing business with Tractor Supply and found a local mill that makes their own. One week into their new bag and all the girls are laying again. Conspiracy? Maybe. For us and our hens, we follow the Lord, so no room for drag queens or altering food for my girls!
I haven't heard about the drag queen thing. Can you explain a little, please.
@@bakednoodle2732 they sponsored or allowed a trans drag show, and offered no apologies, they’re also getting involved with ESG scores where they rate you on your environmental impact, they are also partly owned by black rock NOT GOOD
@@bakednoodle2732 Sure. A few months ago a (verified) story broke that Tractor Supply sponsored a drag queen story time in Texas. Drag queens were twerking in front of children, children were being taught to stuff money into the drag queens' garments, etc. After much backlash, Tractor Supply admitted it was part of their support for all-inclusive policies. Because of the fast and sharp decline in their bottom line, they issued a statement that they would no longer financially support drag queen events. For us and our home, we will never knowingly support wicked abominations to God with our monies.
@@inthewoods3237 Oh wow. Wow. Wow! Looks like I will be making the long drive down to Rural King. I just can't support that. Thanks so much for the info!
@@TheSuesido Thanks so much for the info. I'm astounded. Like you and others, I will no longer buy anything from TSC. Will also cancel their credit card. How disgusting.
From what we have heard on the chicken it is the tractor supply feed that has changed. Not sure if it’s all feed or not but we did switch our feed to another brand and started getting eggs within a week.
I'm not using feed from TSC, and mine have stopped laying for the past 2 months. I have several chickens, and there's no way NONE of them have put out an egg in that time. It's more wise spread than just TSC.
The length of days dictates how chickens lay. They are born with the number of eggs they will lay. You can add lights in the winter to keep them laying. I choose to give my girls a break in the winter and I’m sure they will pick back up in the spring.
Up here in the Pacific Northwest underground burns are very common after a fire. They are deadly in our soil type, as they can erupt up into open air and start new forest fires. Caution must be used always. Though in your soil type this danger is not as great. God's blessing to you all.
These simple every day life videos we've been getting lately have been some of my favorites. I like Maverick's dinosaur shirt. When I saw the cap and heard Amber start to talk, I immediately thought of what Granger says frequently about holding things of this world with an open hand. Only thing I know about fresh chicken eggs is I really like them. Thanks for the content. #YeeYee
I loved Mav's Dinosaur shirt too!!
Ours totally stopped laying a couple of months ago. They always slowdown in the winter, but never completely stopped like this. I found out that around the same time, Tractor Supply changed formulas on their Pride chicken feed. We switched to a feed from a local feed store and after several days they are laying just like normal. I don't think this is a conspiracy Or at least not from what our experience has been. Hope ya'll have a great upcoming weekend and God bless!
I'm with you, I don't think it's planned, but with prices for everything going up up up, the larger companies may decide to cut costs and that impacts the quality of the feed. Buying from a local, non-corporate, feed store will cost more, but you get better feed.
@@SheepdogSmokey Yes, poor quality feed providing inadequate nutrition sounds much more reasonable that purposefully adding something to the food that stops them from laying eggs, or at least it does to me.
Tractor Supply is treading on thin ice however, allowing trans drag shows, being owned by several evil entities, jumping on the ESG score bandwagon. Not Good
@@inthewoods3237 Pretty simple solution to that. If you don't like what a company is doing, stop buying from them and buy from companies that you can feel comfortable supporting. Then these companies you've left will either change their practices or go out of business. As consumers, we do have power in the marketplace. We just have to be willing to take a stand and sometimes make sacrifices for things that are important to us.
@@bowed305 I agree. I am a big believer in supporting local business instead of big box stores.
Yes I've seen it happen with my friend's chickens. I saw those videos today & the ones who've switched to homemade or free range that they living off of bugs and table scraps are now producing again. Multiple factors going on but the feed does play a role
Yes. It’s definitely a thing about the chicken feed that’s going around. Off Grid with Doug and Stacy were talking about it too.
Best place to get your feed is a local feed mill that makes their own feed from locally harvested grains. No problems here in PA With snow on the ground. Our local mill makes their own layer Mash that we get for $12 for 50lbs and with 8 hens we are getting 6-8 eggs a day.
In my neighborhood, my hens are the only ones laying but I only buy their feed at a small feed store by my house. They have layed eggs every day except 1.
Hey y’all! East Tennessee here! We buy our chicken feed from co-op, but if you give your chickens scraps from the kitchen, especially egg shells, bread, any leftover scraps! Our chickens tend to lay way more eggs that way! Might be worth a shot to try it, see if you see a difference! Much love and prayers to y’all!
We purchased our feed from a big name farm store and ours stopped. We found a local feed store and they started laying again after a week of the new feed. I have heard the same thing though about lots of other people having the same issue.
That happened to us too, it seems they change the formula, maybe cheaper ingredients?
@@fabiolagracia2331 Something had to have changed. Not to mention, there was a price jump also.
Well, I switched to local and now they are back to one a day. I live in deep south Texas, so our winters are 60 degrees, winter is not the problem.
Hello from the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. ~ Our daughter raised chickens ,and to get them to lay eggs in the winter months she made sure their water stayed warm. And she got an abundance of eggs.
Yes definitely make your own I watched off grid with Doug and Stacy and they talk about this and they make their own food for them
And today they had a clip of a woman who put all the connections together…very interesting.
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Maverick is literally the cutest, most adorable and huggable baby boy; he makes me smile!!! I love videos with him in it!!! Love all you guys! Yee-Yee!♥♥
Great video, yes we have been hearing the same and know many who have Chickens who has said its around the same timeline that theirs stopped laying. We recently moved into a new home a few months ago and we have a bigger area that we are going to be getting our own Chickens and have been talking to many about what we should do.
FYI: DON'T feed your hens Tractor Supply "Pride" brand chicken feed if you want eggs. Pride is drastically reducing & stopping hens from laying but changing feed will resume their egg 🥚 production within days!
Do some digging. They belong to Purina! Time to go back to the old ways. 🙏🏼
@@Eyes2C.
Amen to that 🙏
I have heard the same thing Granger. We feed our chickens cracked corn and let then free range and they have not stopped laying. It has slowed down but not stopped. We have 33 hens
In awe of Mav growing into a little boy. He’s so handsome and smart. He has such a good disposition.
My neighbors have chickens every year before Christmas they stop laying eggs. They do this every year for the last 10 years.They will start back up in a week or two
I've heard the chicken feed thing and there's videos of people testing the theory and they start laying on homemade 🤷♀️
It sounded like Mavy said GoKart when he was climbing on that little Gator. So cute! ❤️ There’s blizzard like conditions here now. Should calm down in the afternoon tomorrow. I hope ya’ll make it to Mahnomen (Man-O-Man lol just say it fast, I swear that’s how it’s pronounced lol) and the show goes on. So excited for this! God Bless!
I don't have chickens but I buy fresh locally. They changed their feed to a better mix and they are laying like crazy after a long lul on the cheaper food.
In the winter here in Arkansas our chickens slow way down and some stop completely. It has been a warm winter here but they still stopped for a month or so. They have been producing again the last couple of weeks. God bless you and your family. 🙏♥️
Hey Granger I was laughing when you first tried to say Mahnomen MN but then you did pronounce correctly & just wanted to say that my husband & I are so excited to see you & the band tomorrow night. We've been waiting patiently for this concert to finally arrive. So sorry it has to be -10 when you are here. That's January weather for yeah in Minnesota we normally get a cold 🥶 spell. Thanks for coming & sharing your awesome music 🎶 can't wait!!! YEEYEE
Just a boy and his farm. Mav is so precious. I can't get enough. I have seen and heard so many people on CZcams mention the egg, chicken debacle and their chickens aren't laying eggs either but you are right as soon as they switch them to homemade chicken food or goat feed the eggs come in great abundance so honestly I would try homemade to see what happens.
They just started laying again about 2 weeks ago. We set up the heat lamp.
I heard about the chickens & eggs. I don't have chickens, but I've read about this online. I do know $6 for a dozen eggs is crazy!
I love how Mavy loves the stairs and calls for Luna! 🥰🤗💖 So cute! Yes, that is disappointing about Rivers hat, But, material things don't last forever!
Maverick is such a little sweetheart!!! He looks just like you Amber!!! So sorry about River's hat Amber but you are right things of this world are not forever. It still made me sad for you. Even though I hate the cold, I wish I was in MN to see the show!!!! The show would be make it so worth it!!! Love ya'll!!!
We have 9 hens and the past few months they’ve only been laying 1 or 2/day. But it’s pretty common for our hens to take a break during the winter but it always picks up in the Spring,Summer and Fall when they each will lay 1 a day. ❤ your channel and appreciate the wholesome family values you have.
I have been hearing this theory about TS food. My chickens are laying, as are my neighbors. Neighbor uses TS I use food from my local feed store. But they have a heat lamp on the coop.
Welcome to MN!!! It's true Granger. We switched to a ground pig feed we already had here on the farm and our chickens started laying again. We also supplement with soaked lentils. They LOVE those! We switched our quail recently too because they haven't laid ALL WINTER which is unheard of for our quail and they are young.
Our daughter told us that same story going around Liberty Hill Tx. She said some made their own and said their chickens started laying. During winter daylight hours affect the chickens rythyms. It also depends on which chicken type you have also. We are getting chickens again this spring and will feed them like we did our previous chickens. This is a conspiracy that I won't believe until it happens to us. LOL
Maverick's "YEE YEE" totally precious. I'm wearing your new "In Jesus alone" sweater today. Love it! Sorry to hear about Riv's hat, but you have a great attitude about it. Blessings
Jan, see C Smith's comment about the tree roots still smoking as it might be a good precautionary measure to ask the Firemen who work PT at YeeYee to come and look at this underground burn.
Keeping it Dutch just did a video about the chicken food...he also did one a week or so ago about comtrails from planes causing all the extreme tornadic weather. I'm not a conspiracy theorist so I don't come to these suppositions myself. I could be wrong. Either way, I'm not worried.
All 4 of mine loved the pacii! Advent ones. I always kept the 0-6 month ones, never went up, hehe. My babe is currently 15 months and loves it. It’s adorable to me. 😄🥰
Underground fires are very dangerous. It can pop up above ground anywhere.
I heard that about the chicken feed. I saw someone who made their own feed with goat feed, black sunflower seeds and oats and said their chickens started laying again. 🤷♀️
I’m sorry about River’s hat. That made me cry. Hugs to you Amber.
Yes I heard about it.
Yes I have heard about others making their own chicken fed. God bless you and your beautiful family. 🙋🏻♀️♥️🇺🇸
Me and some buds were going to show up to see the show in Mahnomen but the snowmobile trail signs that directed us to Mahnomen sent us getting chased by some guys in red coats and funny looking fur hats. Turns out, there is a Mahnomen Ontario Canada as well. International crisis averted, we lift some maple syrup and hockey pucks at the border.
You guys are awesome. And great loving parents
I have 36 laying hens and I’ve always purchased Dumor and Producer’s Pride chicken feed from Tractor Supply. Between the months of Aug-Nov of this past year my chickens quit laying eggs. I changed over to a local feed producer and within a week my egg production increased from practically zero to 18-20 daily.
Oh My Maverick is such a little cutie,love his baby hair. Your family is so down to earth 🌍. My two boys wouldn’t take the pacifier after ten months,but each to his own. Much Love ❤️ from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
I just love watching Maverick walking around outside. He sure does love the outdoors and can move pretty fast. Hopefully everyones chicken's will start laying soon.
Blessings 😇
I’ve been trying to find the email to write into The Smiths regarding the loss of my family’s new baby. He was a full term stillborn with a knotted cord that the OBGYN never noticed. My family is broken, and my wife is devastated. Monday would have been his C-Section date. This Saturday was his due date. He was born sleeping January 9th. Listening to Granger has helped me get through this horrible time. Thank you Granger and the entire Smith family for all you provide.
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So sorry to hear that. We'll be praying for you and your family.
I am so incredibly sorry for the loss of your precious son! I pray that God wraps his arms around your family.
Yes, I heard about the chicken feed controversy on a homesteader channel. Very interesting!
Yes, I heard about the feed, switched it up and they started laying 2 days after. Mine hadn’t layer for 3 months. Y’all have a great day.
My hens are pullets from 2022 spring. They started laying in Sept. with a light and locally bought pelleted laying mash they have been laying non-stop since then.
I have heard that about the feed. I will have to check with my daughter to see what her chickens are doing.
It is NOT a C Theory. Tractor Supply admitted they changed their formula this last yr.....claims is supply chain issue. Some in the Homesteading community have tested the Mass produced feed. There is far less protein than needed, and 1-2 enzymes missing that is necessary for hens to lay and be fertile. Big box stores, and mass produced feed that has multiple labels for multiple companies has been affected. Larger egg suppliers for the country have also noticed a significant drop, hence eggs being in low supply (same goes for the avian bird flu hype)re having this issue. This is being done on purpose....all by design...goes hand in hand w what's going on the last few yrs. We are newer Homesteaders (5yrs), and having a small ytube channel ourselves.....we have had egg layers for 4 yrs, and the last 2 yrs we butchered cornish hens. We had an issue w our hens laying starting around end of summer, early fall. We werr getting half what we were used to previous yrs, and currently we are getting 2eggs a day, and we usually get 10-12 in the winter. We have contacted a local feed supplier, that doesn't do chicken feed, but was able to forward us onto someone not too far away that we can get some numbers. Otherwise making your own feed is what we are intending to do (aftet the Blizzard conditions roll through). Shooting Star is actually a couple hrs away as well, we are on other side of the river in ND. I follow your channel, and listen to your music; but was NOT aware you'd be so close.....otherwise we would've come to watch. Haven't been to Shooting Star in abouy a decade now🙃. Hope your get here safely with how bad the weather is gonna be. God Bless from Homesteading in the Heartland🥰
I’m just south of you in Boerne, TX and the same thing is going on here with the chickens. I have heard the same thing from lots of sources regarding TSC feed.
A few other channels have noticed the feed has changed at their stores. Aldi's grocery store only had the white eggshells which we all know is not from free range chickens. Hmmm.
Wow! He’s gotten so big since I’ve watched last time. I’ve refrained from watching since I seemed to upset you with my last comment about hair color and didn’t want to upset you again. He’s such a sweetheart and learning so much! He doing so good! I can’t believe he’s walking so well too!
It's what I've heard. I had one tell me she fed her chickens another animals feed and within a couple days they were laying again.
commenting about the chickens! we had a friend from our church do the exact same thing. her chickens were not laying eggs for the longest time she looked at the back of the feed and noticed that they had changed an ingredient on it. so she started making her own chicken feed and her chicken started laying eggs again.
Amber's chat about River's hat is so true!
The Shooting Star Casino is on the White Earth Reservation, where my family is from and some of them still live! I couldn't make the drive for the show and i'm super super SUPER bummed about it, but hopefully you'll be back in MN soon!!!
I have seen comments about the chicken feed conspiracy theory on FB. Chickens always take a break during the short daylight hours. It gives their bodies the rest that they need. Just like when they are molting. Their energy goes into growing new feathers. God has a plan for everything. I guess most of them are new to chicken keeping. It’s a continuous learning experience. God bless you all. ❤ 🙏
Mine have never completely stopped laying over a winter. Slowed down, yes, but never stopped. There IS something going on.
I hope you enjoy MN and I hope you don't freeze! ;) Born and raised in MN.
Chicken feed is the "Filler" they are placing in it. You can still buy chicken feed from local mom and pop mills, they usually make their own chicken feed from product that they buy directly from the elevators.
I promise you that Maverick is the most precious baby boy I think I have EVER SEEN!!! Gosh I could eat him up.
I have three hens. I feed them Purina Layena Crumbles. Still producing eggs. Their production hasn’t even gone down much due to winter. I was told production goes down in the winter. Haven’t noticed that myself. But my Purina Layena crumbles I get at Tractor Supply has been great for my hens.
Same with my chickens and I’m up north. Made my own with black sunflower, cracked corn, nyjer seed, milo, flaxseed, oyster shell, oregano, ground cinnamon and red pepper flakes
Have heard that they have started adding fillers in the feed.
Have also heard just change the feed you are using to see if it makes a difference. 🥰
A lady from church burned a stump similar to yours and the roots kept burning till it reached her horse barn and burned it to the ground. No horses were hurt as they were not in the barn at the time.
I have 80 laying hens. The only slow down I have had this past year has been during molting time. All of mine are first winter layers so I would not expect any slow down and haven’t had any. Just a fun fact, hens typically only lay thru winter their first year. I do not make homemade feed rations, I use a non gmo mix from my local feed store. It is half the price of anything at tractor supply.
I get my layer feed from a local family owned feed store. My chickens are going on 3 years old and I have 5 hens, 2 of them are bantams so they go broody a lot. I'm getting anywhere from 2 to 4 eggs a day.
I been having chicken since I was seven years old and they never lay during the winter. Only spring and summer and sometimes fall it’s still warm. If you want your chicken to have eggs all year around then you have to keep it at a certain temperature. For your chickens to lay doing winter time you have to keep the hen house between 60 and 75 degrees. This is simple add the three things below in to the nest boxes of your chicken cage. What this does is trick the chickens thinking that winter is never going to happen and they will continue to lay eggs all around. Just like they do commercially.
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I use to keep things from my kids. So many things lost in moves. But with age comes wisdom and what is the most important to me is my children who are still with me.
I did use layer feed, and i have added some calf mana for more protein and they have started to lay again. But i will be making my own after this last layer feed is gone.
I agree no eggs for several mounths, I started giving the chicken 20% deer feed and within a weeks time they started laying again, never had that happen before and at $18 a bag for the layer
Depends on the food. Happened to my hens and I changed things there laying even in this freezing weather we’ve been having. 11 hens 5 eggs a day. Before nothing. In warm weather I get 11 or 10 eggs a day.
Yes, it's true about the cx feed. I know it's lacking good protein. But, CLD be another additive. Our are not laying even though the have in the past winters. I have mixed ages too. It is strange...
Our feed is from tractor supply and we haven't had any issues. They did stop laying November and December but have since started back up again.
Yes, I've seen multiple videos in the last few days that said the same thing about the feed. Especially the one from Tractor Supply.
We live and farm right outside the tiny town of Mahnomen and can’t wait to see the concert tonight!
Chickens need 18 hours of sunlight to produce an egg. I've heard this complaint...I get mine from a local feed store and haven't had any issues.
That's how forest fires spread so fast out here in California when the land is dry. Trees will burn and the stump will burn and if its dry enough the fire will travel by burning the root system and can catch more trees on fire.
Yes!!! We went a month with out getting eggs. Once we switched our chicken feed they started laying two days later. I think we switched to Purina chicken feed but that started to get hard to find too! So we pre ordered ahead of time and that seems to help with the feed shortage!!
I've heard from friends who changed to goat feed. They started laying immediately after they changed the feed.
I’ve been feeding homemade chicken feed since last summer and they haven’t even slowed with laying, except for the few that molted but they’ve been laying for a few months now.
I'm still using the commercial feed but supplement the feed with black oil sunflower seed, cracked corn, and crushed oyster shells. Even in our Michigan winter I still get at least 6 eggs a day if not a dozen with 12 layers
Our egg production started to drop at the beginning of winter. But we ended up putting a heat lamp/light in their coop and production went back to "normal". We feed a Purina layer blend. But I have been seeing all over the internet eggs issues 🤷♀️
Yes there are other chicken raisers who had this issue and they switched the chicken feed to goat feed and the chickens started laying eggs again.
I'm excited to see you in Minnesota. My brother George was supposed to go with me, but he was getting snow off a roof today and the ladder slipped so to the ER he went. He will be home resting tomorrow night.
Chickens go thru a sort of energy save mode in winter where they don’t lay as much as in spring and summer it’s totally normal for them to slow production in winter ❤️🙏🏻💋
Yep, but normal behavioral patterns aren't nearly as fun as creating a conspiracy theory that "they" are out to get us all.
Slow production yes, but to totally stop laying is unusual.
Slow yes, but stop no
My chickens started laying again. They just molted twice this year and so it was a lot of time this year spent in molt without eggs. Just be patient and after the molt they’ll start up again. Also some breeds dont lay much in winter and neighbors have hung christmas lights in their coop and reported more eggs with increased light. I just leave my girls be and they do their thing. I get what i get and am happy with it. Theyre on store bought feed but the feed store makes it. Real good feed, keeps the girls shiny and hard egg shells too.
We have heard the same thing. But ours stopped laying a couple months ago. Young and older ones. We are going to make our own feed and see. Ours have never just stopped laying.
There is real evidence that the supplier that Tractor Supply gets their feed from, has not been up to par. Switching to a locally milled supply has resulted in egg production coming back up. I think Shawn (Dutch) covered this today.
About the chicken feed. I can tell you that I have read testimonies from people who chickens have stopped laying eggs longer than there normal winter break. They heard about the issue and went to a local grain mill and purchased laying pellets. The next day they got one egg. Within one week, they were getting there two dozen a week like they use too.
Yes, our chickens went through a period of not laying as well. I heard it was because of Producers Pride and Dumor feed from Tractor Supply. We get our feed at the Co-op now and they have started back laying. Not that I actually believe it but if they are not getting enough protein they will stop laying.