Posted on 01/28/2023 8:23:31 AM PST by Safrguns
OK here’s a few facts. We are moving to the country soon so not getting any new hens til then. We have one remaining 9 year old chicken who has been on The dreaded Dumor mash and Flock Party 5 grain scratch from Tractor supply. I read about the Dumor mash the other day and vowed not to buy anymore of it. Our hens almost never lay during the winter no matter the feed brand.
However Henrietta laid an egg about 4-5 days ago and another egg yesterday. I was really shocked to get eggs in January so apparently the mash is not affecting her. But in future I’m moving back to the Layena by Purina for mash even though its more expensive.
We put hot water in our chicken waterer also. They do love it.
Other brands she mentioned was Dumore feed, Producer Pride, Cal-Maine and Moark. (I wrote the names down quickly so they may be typos) It appears one company owns many other companies.
I should have read your post before posting.
Got egg on me face now!
“But I’m very thankful that they have the freedom and right to do so.”
Of course .
I was pointing out the fallacy of the article and how it makes a false link to high egg prices.
Usually feed is contract made regionally due to high shipping cost.
This is true for store brands but not Purina.
There are many micronutrients added to feed production. I could see some being missed in a production batch, but not several runs.
That is a very good question. Many years ago, a biology professor sampled our chicken litter as part of some research project. We never got the results, but wondered if it was the feed, or soil, or some other factor that was reducing our egg yield. It’s such a complicated process that I wouldn’t know where to start.
We have seen some improvement in our yields with additives like mealworms and other high protein components. Another poster wrote about adding calcium. We haven’t done that systematically, but have tried it from time-to-time when our shells were really thin.
was told that egg prices should be coming down end of February because replacement chickens will finally be laying eggs.
So I pulled up the USDA numbers for 2016 poultry production.
Did you know that in 2016 they lost over 106.8 million chickens due to “Includes rendered, died, destroyed, composted, or disappeared for any reason except sold during the 12-month period”.
Tell me again how destroying 54 million chickens because of avian flu has driven up the cost of eggs.
Total number of chickens produced in 2016 was over 8.7 BILLION. What percent is 54 million of that?
This is how it went down according to a food distributor I spoke with.
The cost of everything has gone up. Thanks to the Democrats, minimum wage laws in most states have greatly increased labor costs. Also, thanks to the Democrats, the cost of transportation has skyrocketed. The egg farmers sell the eggs to distributors who have to inspect, clean, package and ship the eggs. This is all labor and transportation. If you noticed, the price of eggs started to increase months ago. They went from about $2 a dozen to about $3.25 a dozen. This was the distributors tacking on their increased costs.
The chicken farmers noticed the increased prices at the supermarkets and complained that not only weren’t they getting more, they were getting less. Yes, the distributors were trying to make back their losses on both ends. The farmers fought back and cut off their supply. You might remember a couple of months back when their were no eggs in the stores for about a week. This was when the avian flu story started. The distributors gave in and started paying more for the eggs, but had to pass that cost on to the consumers, so now we are paying $6 per dozen in some places.
So why the avian flu story? We can’t have the Democrats looking bad, can we? If the truth came out that runaway costs created by Democrat policies are clearly causing the increase in egg prices - and it is clear as day that they are - there would be a HUGE backlash and the Republicans would have a great talking point with eggs as a great visual reminder. But the Democrats have the media on their side and so the cover story of avian flu gets put out there and everyone - including many here on FR - buy it hook, line, and sinker.
My chickens always slow down in winter. I just let them rest and build up their calcium level now so I’ll have better shells next season.
Roosters are exhausted and on meds...
I would wonder WHERE most of the chicken feed is supplied from. If China (Which is a strong possibility) then I wouldn't put nothing past them. I'm pretty sure the poisoned the dog food supply (maybe unintentionally) a few years back.
5/dozen? That’s a bargain compared to where I live. The last time they were 5, was 1.5 years ago when the prices when up. Everyone is acting like the prices just went up recently. It’s been well over a year or 1.5 years.
Is the chicken feed from China?
Plus a fire that killed 100,000 chickens in Conn.!!
Catturd ™
@catturd2
If you think the same people who won’t stop screwing with viruses in labs, won’t screw with the egg and food supply - you still don’t get it.
Hint ... it’s the same people who tell you to eat bugs and take the bus - while they dine on lobster, steak, and fly on private jets.
7:28 AM · Jan 31, 2023
I heard about this the other day from local radio. A caller claimed what this article is saying and said the way farmers were currently dealing with it was to give the chickens feed for goats.
You beat me to it. Well done!
I promise I wasn’t trying to steal your thunder heh.
Hah! I need to read replies before posting comments! A lesson I often fail to remember!
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