If you have been following our blog, you will know that we found a place to buy organic chicken feed, but the drive time is 4 hrs (round trip). SO in an effort to save money, gas and time Daryl has been researching and calling feed mills that are closer to us. Well we found one.
Yeah!! It is only 40 min round trip and the price is actually a little cheaper. It is a win-win situation... Right? Well.. not so much. As soon as we opened the bag we could see that the quality was not as good. And the list of ingredients... "Organic Plant Material" What?!?! Organic plant material? Heck I could grind up grass and say that.
We also noticed a decrease in egg production. Now we did expect some drop in egg production due to the winter lack of light. (Chickens need like 12 hrs of light to help them produce eggs), but even the lack of sun light didn't fully explain the lack of eggs. We went from getting 12 eggs a day from our 12 birds to 7 or 8 eggs a day (and sometimes less).
Our theory is that the feed mill realized that people were asking for organic feed, but really didn't understand the what and why of that request. They probably looked around for something that was similar in price, not realizing that those of us that are serious about organic and natural food are willing to pay more for better quality. So, back to driving 4 hrs for food. We are going to go to this close mill though and see if we can get them to order from the same place as our other guy.
The list of ingredients on the good stuff:
Organic grain, Organic corn, organic soy, etc... Each item listed out
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