Walrus Whisperer
Hope in chains...
Canned cat food. Food for chickens in winter. They'll knock each other over getting to it 1st. It's nutrient dense for them. No need for dry cat food soaking.
…… Chickens stopped laying
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Hfcomms
EN66iq
Meh....I just throw them a handful of corn in the morning to get them going and a handful later to get them back into the coop. The corn provides the extra fats they need to help keep warm and the stuff works like catnip. Chicken crack I call it. The chickens will kill for that corn.
Border Collie Dad
Flat Earther
A problem that I would have with that is the high likelyhood that the corn is GMO.
I feed non-GMO food
Chicken Mama
Veteran Member
Hot oatmeal on cold mornings is always a welcome meal, too.
How many use TSC feed? Reports all over it stops hens laying.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DikIMopuMA
To further emphasize Satanta's post above, did you get any feed from tractor supply? I am also seeing a lot of chatter around the web that the tractor supply feed is tainted, and that anyone who fed their hens this feed no longer lay.
BySurvival
January 25, 2023
Tractor Supply Chicken Feed Reportedly Causing Egglaying to Stop, Board has Ties to WEF, Jeffrey Epstein
Online claims have emerged, corroborated by others, that the popular “Producer’s Pride” chicken feed sold by the Tractor Supply chain has been recently altered and that its new formulation is causing chickens to stop laying eggs. Some suggest a deliberate reduction in the amount of protein in the feed may be causing the reduction in egg production.
Hens do lay fewer eggs in the winter time due to reduced sunlight. Farmers have often used a light to expose hens to longer light so as to produce more egg-laying. Yet farmer sources report that they are seeing a much-greater-than-normal reduction in egg production, to the point where many report that hens are laying zero eggs instead of merely a reduced laying frequency. There is no word on whether this is a temporary or a permanent change among Tractor Supply feed.
This news comes as chicken and egg prices reach historic highs, caused in part by Avian Flu, but also as rampant inflation under the Biden regime causing prices to erratically jump among suppliers and subsequently among common consumer products. Egg prices have gone from $1.71 per dozen 18 months ago to an average over $7 per dozen today.
Not all hen layer feeds seem to be affected. In a quote to the Gateway Pundit, spokeswoman for Nature’s Best Organic Feeds Courtney Price said, “there have been absolutely no changes to our premium feed formulas” and that they have not heard any customer criticisms or complaints about their non-GMO chicken feed products. Price continued, “We pride ourselves here at Kreamer Feed on premium nutrition for animals nationwide, and all of the products in our organic, non-GMO brand Nature’s Best Organic Feeds line is no exception.”
The U.S. poultry feed market is $5 billion per year. Two of the most popular chicken feeds available for, and marketed to, backyard chicken homesteaders are “Producer’s Pride” owned by the Tractor Supply corporation and the “Dumor” brand owned by Purina.
These two layer feeds seem to be the primary brands mentioned by those experiencing chicken flocks who suddenly stop laying eggs.
Recent reports of chickens not laying comes in the wake of ongoing public concerns that the World Economic Forum is artificially causing food scarcity. The WEF has been widely criticized for repeatedly encouraging citizens to eat bugs in lieu of animal protein.
Tractor Supply’s CEO is Hal Lawton, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Tractor Supply is a publicly-listed company with $13 billion in annual revenue, 46,000 employees, and 2,003 locations in 49 U.S. states. Tractor Supply is specifically marketed to more rural Americans, where their company tagline is “for life out here.”
Tractor Supply has a board of directors composed of 10 individuals. One of them, Joy Brown, is a former executive for Vanguard, an index fund with $5 trillion under management. The three big index funds, Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street, substantially financially support the World Economic Forum for the western world, and sources say also for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization for the eastern world.
These various funds are also behind the “social credit” and “ESG” left-wing movements among corporate America to force businesses into left-wing economic and cultural compliance. Another current Tractor Supply board member, Thomas Kingsbury, bragged about implementing ESG initiatives while an executive at Kohl’s.
Another Tractor Supply board member Andre Hawaux is a former executive with ConAgra, which has been criticized for using genetically modified organisms to change the genetic composition of its foods which dissident voices say causes sterility.
One Wyoming farmer described ConAgra to the Gateway Pundit as ‘a bunch of crooks’ that make seeds for farmers that eventually go sterile, and also make the soil sterile. Part of their motivation, he says, is to use gene splicing which is, he says, “bad for both plants and humans.” ConAgra and other companies were widely criticized 20 years ago for developing sterile seeds on purpose, which critics labelled ‘suicide seeds’ or ‘terminator seeds’, that would stop seeds from reproducing so as to force farmers to continually buy seeds only from licensed distributors rather than growing their own replacements.
Most shocking is that another board member, Mark Weikel, was the President of Victoria’s Secret from 2003-2007. Victoria’s Secret is owned by Leslie Wexner. During this period of time from 2003-2007, as reported by the New York Times, Jeffrey Epstein had a power-of-attorney document that allowed him to hire, manage, and fire all of Wexner’s employees and manage all of his finances and entities. The Gateway Pundit asked Mark Weikel point blank whether he reported directly to Jeffrey Epstein and he did not reply or deny as of publication time.
We reached out to Tractor Supply’s corporate media offices and they did not respond. We reached out to the Food and Drug Administration’s designated media contact Janet Goodwin and they also did not respond. We reached out to Mark Weikel on the board of Tractor Supply and he also did not respond.
survivalmagazine.org
Also here is a twitter thread on it:
View: https://twitter.com/KeriA1776again/status/1617249704466681857
Tractor Supply Chicken Feed Reportedly Causing Egglaying to Stop, Board has Ties to WEF, Jeffrey Epstein
BySurvival
January 25, 2023
Tractor Supply Chicken Feed Reportedly Causing Egglaying to Stop, Board has Ties to WEF, Jeffrey Epstein
Online claims have emerged, corroborated by others, that the popular “Producer’s Pride” chicken feed sold by the Tractor Supply chain has been recently altered and that its new formulation is causing chickens to stop laying eggs. Some suggest a deliberate reduction in the amount of protein in the feed may be causing the reduction in egg production.
Hens do lay fewer eggs in the winter time due to reduced sunlight. Farmers have often used a light to expose hens to longer light so as to produce more egg-laying. Yet farmer sources report that they are seeing a much-greater-than-normal reduction in egg production, to the point where many report that hens are laying zero eggs instead of merely a reduced laying frequency. There is no word on whether this is a temporary or a permanent change among Tractor Supply feed.
This news comes as chicken and egg prices reach historic highs, caused in part by Avian Flu, but also as rampant inflation under the Biden regime causing prices to erratically jump among suppliers and subsequently among common consumer products. Egg prices have gone from $1.71 per dozen 18 months ago to an average over $7 per dozen today.
Not all hen layer feeds seem to be affected. In a quote to the Gateway Pundit, spokeswoman for Nature’s Best Organic Feeds Courtney Price said, “there have been absolutely no changes to our premium feed formulas” and that they have not heard any customer criticisms or complaints about their non-GMO chicken feed products. Price continued, “We pride ourselves here at Kreamer Feed on premium nutrition for animals nationwide, and all of the products in our organic, non-GMO brand Nature’s Best Organic Feeds line is no exception.”
The U.S. poultry feed market is $5 billion per year. Two of the most popular chicken feeds available for, and marketed to, backyard chicken homesteaders are “Producer’s Pride” owned by the Tractor Supply corporation and the “Dumor” brand owned by Purina.
These two layer feeds seem to be the primary brands mentioned by those experiencing chicken flocks who suddenly stop laying eggs.
Recent reports of chickens not laying comes in the wake of ongoing public concerns that the World Economic Forum is artificially causing food scarcity. The WEF has been widely criticized for repeatedly encouraging citizens to eat bugs in lieu of animal protein.
Tractor Supply’s CEO is Hal Lawton, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Tractor Supply is a publicly-listed company with $13 billion in annual revenue, 46,000 employees, and 2,003 locations in 49 U.S. states. Tractor Supply is specifically marketed to more rural Americans, where their company tagline is “for life out here.”
Tractor Supply has a board of directors composed of 10 individuals. One of them, Joy Brown, is a former executive for Vanguard, an index fund with $5 trillion under management. The three big index funds, Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street, substantially financially support the World Economic Forum for the western world, and sources say also for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization for the eastern world.
These various funds are also behind the “social credit” and “ESG” left-wing movements among corporate America to force businesses into left-wing economic and cultural compliance. Another current Tractor Supply board member, Thomas Kingsbury, bragged about implementing ESG initiatives while an executive at Kohl’s.
Another Tractor Supply board member Andre Hawaux is a former executive with ConAgra, which has been criticized for using genetically modified organisms to change the genetic composition of its foods which dissident voices say causes sterility.
One Wyoming farmer described ConAgra to the Gateway Pundit as ‘a bunch of crooks’ that make seeds for farmers that eventually go sterile, and also make the soil sterile. Part of their motivation, he says, is to use gene splicing which is, he says, “bad for both plants and humans.” ConAgra and other companies were widely criticized 20 years ago for developing sterile seeds on purpose, which critics labelled ‘suicide seeds’ or ‘terminator seeds’, that would stop seeds from reproducing so as to force farmers to continually buy seeds only from licensed distributors rather than growing their own replacements.
Most shocking is that another board member, Mark Weikel, was the President of Victoria’s Secret from 2003-2007. Victoria’s Secret is owned by Leslie Wexner. During this period of time from 2003-2007, as reported by the New York Times, Jeffrey Epstein had a power-of-attorney document that allowed him to hire, manage, and fire all of Wexner’s employees and manage all of his finances and entities. The Gateway Pundit asked Mark Weikel point blank whether he reported directly to Jeffrey Epstein and he did not reply or deny as of publication time.
We reached out to Tractor Supply’s corporate media offices and they did not respond. We reached out to the Food and Drug Administration’s designated media contact Janet Goodwin and they also did not respond. We reached out to Mark Weikel on the board of Tractor Supply and he also did not respond.
Tractor Supply Chicken Feed Reportedly Causing Egglaying to Stop, Board has Ties to WEF, Jeffrey Epstein
Online claims have emerged, corroborated by others, that the popular “Producer’s Pride” chicken feed sold by the Tractor Supply chain has been recently al
survivalmagazine.org
Also here is a twitter thread on it:
View: https://twitter.com/KeriA1776again/status/1617249704466681857
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RememberGoliad
Veteran Member
I saw reports of that. I think it's more city boy bean counters changing the recipe to save money, more than a deliberate attempt to starve chickens. (Stupider things than that have happened.) Mine have only in the last few weeks dropped to about 50% participation in their breakfast contribution. Of course, they'll be 3 this spring, so half production in January is still not bad.
We've got 9 new pullets --we THINK they're all pullets-- that are about 6 months old, and just in the last week they've started blowing their fart eggs and double-yolkers, 4-6 a day. Still no attempts by any of 'em to crow just yet, so we might've hit the poultry lottery and wound up with nine hens. Wouldn't THAT be nice!
Haven't fed 'em TSC food in a while, for one they're prouder of it than our local guys or Wallyworld, and for another they seem to not have it in stock about half the time....so, being they're further away I have mostly stopped checking there.
I'll add a +1 on the cat food. Our cats get fed while the coffee's cooking, about an hour before dawn, and they have that time to eat what they can, because the birds raid the cat food pan as soon as I let 'em out, and that could be why they are productive....enough...for their age and this time of year. They're completely free range, only going into a locked coop at night, and go where they feel like during daytime. They also get the Moore brand laying feed our Wallyworld carries, and a scratch mix our local feed store mixes in-house. They do love the goats! They're right in there competing with the goats for their flake of alfalfa!
BCD, sometimes the only evidence of eating will be sticky nest bedding. We had to make a pot of stew one weekend when I isolated the egg eater. Since then, no more sticky straw
I'd give 'em til mid-March and see if they recover from winter, before becoming one-meal wonders. We're at ~30N latitude, so our days are getting appreciably longer already, 10.5 hrs sunup to sundown, so I kinda expect our older ladies to step up in the next few weeks and deliver a bit better.
Samuel Adams
Has No Life - Lives on TB
My chicken feed guy did not kill himself.
No, seriously….mid-winter, try feeding them some ground beef fat.
We render several beeves over the cooler months and have come to trim the excess fat to go through the burger grinder, and dole that out to the birds.
They go crazy over it, and there are bits of meat waste strewn throughout…..and the grinder is clean and well-lubed, following…
Then the birds pick up a little on production, couple days after.
No, seriously….mid-winter, try feeding them some ground beef fat.
We render several beeves over the cooler months and have come to trim the excess fat to go through the burger grinder, and dole that out to the birds.
They go crazy over it, and there are bits of meat waste strewn throughout…..and the grinder is clean and well-lubed, following…
Then the birds pick up a little on production, couple days after.
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Hfcomms
EN66iq
I’m still getting plenty of eggs this winter feeding both Dumor and Puritan’s pride feed from Tractor supply. I did fill my storage shed late last spring though but I was reading about this issue back then as well. Their feed is only 16% protein which I think is a bit light but the only time my hens really slow down the laying is with the real cold spells as they need the nutrition going into metabolic body heat instead of eggs. I do give them a handful of corn both day and night for extra calories and I do think that helps encourage egg laying when its cold.
PghPanther
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Some viewing of chicken porn flicks to the flock and Rooster Viagra tabs ought to do the trick (no pun intended).
Border Collie Dad
Flat Earther
I am getting eggs.
1-3/day from 5 hens.
I like the non-gmo feed.
Costs a little more but I'd rather not eat any more glyphosate than I have to.
1-3/day from 5 hens.
I like the non-gmo feed.
Costs a little more but I'd rather not eat any more glyphosate than I have to.
meandk0610
Veteran Member
My two cents: We fed Producer’s Pride and then Dumor last year (both by TSC). The production of our 10 hens and two (at the time, now only one) ducks dwindled early then stopping entirely by mid/late summer, and the molts for all of them lasted for months, which indicated to me that something was off on the protein. We switched about a month ago to Country [something] by Rural King. The remaining duck started coming back online about two weeks ago and the hens within the past week. We’ve had chickens for a decade and I, at first, thought it was just their molt, then just the daylight, before starting to think that something was wrong with their feed. I will not go back to TSC feed at this point because I no longer trust it/them.
I’m concerned enough that I’m going to look into possibly providing alternate food or maybe trying to dish out the cash for organic feed for the ducklings and chicks I’ve ordered for this year (which won’t arrive until April and June; get your orders in, people!).
I’m concerned enough that I’m going to look into possibly providing alternate food or maybe trying to dish out the cash for organic feed for the ducklings and chicks I’ve ordered for this year (which won’t arrive until April and June; get your orders in, people!).
There is a lot oof Buzz going around They might start banning small Chicken farming.
"Reports" getting released as to how Eggs can cause blood clots, cancers and so on. Add in them destroying chickens by the Millions.
Been planning out my Coop and hemhouse but am starting to rethink it-maybe out them in poart of the large open barn so no one can flyover and spot the chickens by plane.
"Reports" getting released as to how Eggs can cause blood clots, cancers and so on. Add in them destroying chickens by the Millions.
Been planning out my Coop and hemhouse but am starting to rethink it-maybe out them in poart of the large open barn so no one can flyover and spot the chickens by plane.
Jackalope
Irregular
Gee, "they" might start making everyone eat soylent green. Not everything is a conspiracy. I think most of the diminished egg production can be attributed to newbie poultry farmers who don't realize that egg production naturally diminishes during the winter months.
First, Tractor Supply doesn't manufacture their feed, I believe that Producer's Pride brand feed is made by Purina, so the concern about changes in the feed formula should be directed to Purina. I imagine feed sales are a large chunk of Tractor Supply sales, why would they endanger that income? And the grasping at associations with Tractor Supply, Epstein, and the WEF is too incredible. Yes, there are conspiracies out there, but I don't see the Tractor Supply feed rumor as being viable. If some evil group wants to really effect egg production, I think they would go after the large commercial farms, rather than small poultry hobby type farms.
I hope that folks raising poultry know enough to supplement the chicken feed with additional items, like meal worms and oyster shells.
rob0126
Veteran Member
Danny on Deepsouth Homestead said chickens need about 22% protein in their diet to lay a lot of eggs, even some in the winter.
He also said 16% is the minimum for the chickens to survive.
Border Collie Dad
Flat Earther
Right now I am getting 1-4 eggs a day with 5 hens.
2 are about 6 months old and 3 are about a year and a half.
They are getting Kalmbach non-GMO layer pellets which is 16% (I think) and about 4 hours supplemental light
The animls know something not nice is coming ?
Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Any individual family farm is inconsequential to those wishing to restrict the food supply.
But collectively, the individual family farms make up a HUGE portion of the egg producing market.
Just look at your farmers markets. And all the little old ladies who sell them, a few dozen at a time, to those at their church. Or their neighbors.
Just because they are not easily visible to you does not mean their collective influence is not significant.
You can’t burn down the henhouse of every one of these individual family producers.
But you CAN neutralize their ability to continue producing eggs.
Just put something in the food that most of them buy to feed their chicks.
That would be every bit as effective as setting fire to a few of the industrial chicken farms.
Walrus Whisperer
Hope in chains...
I always shoveled paths for my girls. And brushed the snow off their ramp, otherwise they wouldn't go outside. Plus they always had a great place to be outside, I built the coop 2 feet off the ground so they had that whole area underneath to get out of snow/rain...
The best thing I ever did was plant fruiting mulberry trees around their fence. They loooove mulberries. Free food! What's not to like?
Martinhouse
Deceased
WW, I'd forgotten how my chickens loved scratching and chowing under my volunteer mulberry tree!
They would also reach their heads an icredible distance through the 2"x 4" openings in the fencing cages I had built around my big blueberry bushes. I saw a rooster jumping two and three feet straight up into the air to peck blueberries of of the branch ends that had grown out the sides of the cages,
I miss those big bushes.....they all died during our 2012 drought/heat wave, even though I watered them faithfully all summer.
They would also reach their heads an icredible distance through the 2"x 4" openings in the fencing cages I had built around my big blueberry bushes. I saw a rooster jumping two and three feet straight up into the air to peck blueberries of of the branch ends that had grown out the sides of the cages,
I miss those big bushes.....they all died during our 2012 drought/heat wave, even though I watered them faithfully all summer.
meandk0610
Veteran Member
For us, it’s not a conspiracy and it didn’t happen in winter. Our girls — chickens and ducks — stopped laying during last summer and then went into an early, long molt. We’ve had chickens and ducks for the past 10 years — not newbs, not winter.