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| wooliespinner |
Posted - Jul 11 2013 : 11:21:25 AM
I am so excited that I finally found a source for Non GMO chicken feed. There is a place called Hiland feed that sells Non GMO grain for all animals and also has organic feed.They are about 4 hours from me which is quite far.
They gave me a name of a Lady in Kentucky who is carrying their feeds at her farm. She make a delivery to Batavia which is less than an hour from me about every 6 weeks. I checked out the feed and its super nice. My chickens free range alot so I don't use a ton of layers feed but I do need it for them. Its all whole grains and looks super nice. Will be picking up my first batch the end of this month. She said after about 2 weeks of using the Hiland natural layers food her chickens are eating way less than when on conventional feed. So I will be finding out when I get the feed and hope they do better.She has the numbers on her blog. She keeps a pretty detailed feeding and money accounts.
She raises heritage animals I have never heard of. She has some truly unique animals for sure.She has sheep, hogs, chickens, cows and other animals. All Heritage or rare. Its worth checking out her website and blog. She is a wealth of information. I talked to her in great length today and learned so much from her. Here is her website if you want to check it out:
http://www.risingphoenixheritagefarm.com/index.html
she also has a blog to read. Its pretty cool.
She sells Hiland Feeds from her farm. There website is:
http://www.hilandnaturals.com/
Here is whats in the layers feed for chickens its a 17% protein.
INGREDIENTS
Corn, Oats, Wheat, Sunflower Seed, Whole Roasted
Soybeans, Soybean Meal, Peas, Alfalfa Meal, Fish
meal, Oyster Shells, Methionine, Supplement, Calcium
Carbonate, Salt, Monocalcium / Dicalcium Phosphate,
Sea Kelp Ferrous Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc
Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Iron Oxide, Ethylenediamine
Dihydriodide,, Sodium Selenite, Folic Acid, Vitamin
D3 Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Choline
Chloride, Niacin, Vitamin E Supplement, Menadione
Sodium Bisulfite, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Calcium
Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hy
drochloride,, Thiamine, Dried Aspergillus Niger
Fermentation, Dried Bacillus Subtilus Fermentation
Extract, Dried Trichodema Logibrachiatum Extract.
Linda
Raspberry Run Farm
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| nubidane |
Posted - Jul 12 2013 : 6:16:56 PM
Linda
I sent that lady an email. I'll keep you posted!
Thanks my friend!
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| wooliespinner |
Posted - Jul 12 2013 : 4:51:25 PM
Marybeth I saw pictures of those chickens and they are beautiful. I may try to get a few of those next year.Does yours lay pretty good? Glad your liked the website.
Jennifer all the commercial chicken feed has soybean meal in it... read the ingedients on your chicken feed and you will see it listed there. Your goat feed also has soybean meal in it too.I do add the flax meal instead of the soybean meal but the dairy pellet unfortunlately has soybean in it which is GMO.All the pelleted sweet feeds and dairy feeds unless otherwise noted have soybean meal in it.
Read the ingredients on the pellet and you will see it listed there too. The problem is the soybean meal in our feeds that we buy is all GMO unless its labled otherwise.Sad but true but non GMO feed is hard to find.
This chicken feed from Hiland feeds soybean is not GMO and is only 2 percent of the ration.Thats what the gentleman there told me.Its also whole and roasted.Most of the protein in this mix is coming from the sunflower,peas,alfalfa and fish meal. So I am not worried about this since all the grain in this chicken layer feed is all GMO free. They do have a non soy recipe but its $31 dollars a bag....to expensive for me.
Anyway if you want to avoid soybean meal then you will have to stop feeding the dairy pellets or any pellets in your feed and not feed commercial chicken food.That is why so many people are feeding whole grains to their animals and alfalfa pellets trying to avoid all this stuff and be more natural. But its hard to do especially where we live the mills just don't offer this stuff/ Hope this helps clear things up.
Linda
Raspberry Run Farm
Nubian Dairy Goats |
| Marybeth |
Posted - Jul 12 2013 : 2:41:59 PM
Excellent web site. We have French Maran Hens. They are super nice. MB
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| wincrestnubians |
Posted - Jul 12 2013 : 11:31:53 AM
I would think you would want to avoid the soy bean meal. Why wouldnt the flax work with the chickens as with our goats?
It looks good, thou.
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