Posted on 01/30/2023 2:40:36 PM PST by EBH
What exactly is causing the egg shortage? Many people are reporting that there are issues with the commercial chicken feed, speculating that it has even prevented their hens from laying eggs.
The rising egg prices in America have affected millions of homes. The cost of eggs in California has risen 550% in the last month, going from roughly $1.34 a dozen to $7.37. The state blamed it on an outbreak of bird flu, but others are not so convinced. In fact, several people have come out to say that their chickens did not produce eggs for months – until they changed their feed.
One man (@urbanchickenfarmer) uploaded a video on TikTok and theorized that something must be wrong with the feed. "Something is wrong with the chicken food we're buying, seriously," he said. "My chickens have not laid an egg since July, and nothing's changed. Then I was thinking, maybe it's because my chickens getting older, or maybe it's a bad winter. But, according to a lot of people on TikTok, they're having the same exact problem. And people are saying once they switched the food, their chickens are starting to lay again."
He continued, "So I'm gonna switch their food, and we'll see. Maybe something's wrong with the food, and was it intentional?"
The TikToker recently uploaded an update after switching his feed, explaining that one of his chickens has started "laying like crazy," but the rest of them haven't yet. However, he believes that they're doing okay and "things are improving."
@thehotmesshomestead was going through the same problem, and she was determined to find answers. "Is the commercial feed the reason so many people's chickens have not been laying at all?" she asked. "This is a question that I am asking myself, and I have seen all over TikTok, Facebook, everywhere." She then talks about the many posts on social media of chicken owners discussing how they ditched the commercial feed (specifically the brand known as "Producer's Pride") in order to get eggs.
@twosailorspotrero responded to the video above on January 14. "So, my chickens have not laid since, I wanna say, July 22. And I just switched their feed a week ago, and for the first time since July last year, I got eggs. It is the feed. It is definitely the feed," she repeated.
A woman from the Twitter clip below seemed to echo these findings by explaining how she got eggs after making the switch to goat feed. "I have to say, there's something to this," she said. "If I have to put my little tin foil hat on. It's kinda weird."
The government is telling us that the egg shortage is due to avian influenza – is it possible it's the chicken feed instead?
I agree with a permanent Food Supply topic and ping list.
Put me on the ping list if it is created.
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>>> and I started doing some research......and wha-lah! It all fits.
Thank you... but this was a bit unclear... did you change feed and verify that TS feed was the problem?
Did your hens start laying again with new feed or free ranging?
I am free ranging and switching to goat feed. Looking for a local co-op: but I found this is the problem in my entire area. Then are started looking nationally...and it’s the same.
But yes, they just started laying more. I was getting 0-3 out of 14 hens since September.
>>> But yes, they just started laying more.
Wow... well isn’t that interesting.
At first, I felt bad for mentioning TS...(i.e. innocent retailer) but more recently I’m hearing now the corporation is all tied into the globalists. I didn’t know that before.
Unfortunately the same governmental agency that is supposed to protect us from crap like this just green-lighted over 50 percent of the population being jabbed with snake venom.
I just don’t see how we can recover from this level of treason from within and infiltration of our government.
I believe we are witnessing now the acts that are judged and punished for as described in Rev 18:23.
That’s how close we are... I don’t think normal is coming back.
I think Jesus is.
I use tractor supply as my main feed but the birds forage, they get assorted goodies/treats and some table scraps.
I have ISA Browns, no rooster, I don’t use lights and my girls haven’t skipped a beat.
I get eggs from all but one every single day (many double yokes) and the one doesn’t miss very often— she was the last to start laying.
Of course mine will peter out sooner than other breeds because they’re such prolific layers.
Over here all’s good in chicken world— we have no TS feed issue or my old girls are tough tough enough to roll with the punches and overcome.
All we have right not is anecdotal.....but there is a lot of it; appearing to say the same thing. What we need is someone to take it to an independent lab: but I wouldn’t know what to look for.
Surely there is a FReeper with such skill. I do believe we are at war now, and most Americans are oblivious to it.
Good ideas
I thought what I read several weeks back when I first started seeing rumblings of this, was that it’s something they took out of feed and that the FDA or one of the alphabets had a deadline for something to be removed from poultry feed.
I’m sorry I can’t recall all of the details, I *think* it was in Nov-Dec 22 that I saw? read? this. I’ll try and run that down to bring back over here. It doesn’t seem to change the fact that TS is an ESG drone. Sick, sick capitalism we now have.
Last two years, the wild birds and squirrels will hardly touch the wild bird seed I bought at Ace hardware.
Bet I know why now.
It’s been tainted at best, poisoned at worst.
Wild birds and squirrels have a choice. Captive hens do not.
Chickens molt in the Fall and early Winter and quit laying eggs while they re-generate their feathers. It happens every year. I go from getting 12-18 eggs a day to getting zero eggs per day. Once they finish molting, they ramp production back up again. Also, prime production timeframe for a chicken is about 3 years - after that they start to tail off, production-wise until they get down to nothing. I send the hens that are over 3 years old off to freezer camp and bring in new chicks to replace them to optimize egg production. I suspect a lot this whole chickens not laying eggs thing comes from people new to chickens who have not experienced the reduced production during the molt and freaked out because their chickens quit laying. No one around here who raises chickens has experienced anything out of the ordinary.
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