Feed

pipes · Post by **pipes** » Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:05 pm

I use to work for the Co-op way back before I smartened up. So I was thinking pelletized. Do these feeds qualify for organic? Had a friend ask me if my eggs were free range organic eggs. I told her I didn't know, but would let her know after I built a barn, and bought some chickens. Does this qualify as putting the egg before the chicken for argument sakes?

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:28 pm

LOL Hey im a believer that the egg came first. LOL. it had to unless a superior alien race put them here.

well In that case MAYBE the chicken came first. LOL

Well I was for organics until I saw the price and heard of some problems with it. so I have no experience at all with organic feed. so whenever someone askes me if they are organic I say they could be if you want to pay a buck an egg. my eggs are as close to organic as they will ever be. I dont worry about it but at the same time im not a huge fan of pesticides on my food, however if I need to use them I will. tsc carries an organic line at twice the cost of regular feed. to be considered organic the feed has to be approved and it will be labled.

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:58 pm

Technically, to call your eggs organic, you have to first buy day-old chicks or already certified organic hens, buy only certified organic feed, buy actual certification (which requires $$ plus hopping on your left leg while dancing widdershins around a 300 year old white pine bonsai under the light of a full moon LOL), and never feed or treat your hens with anything that isn't listed under the rather short list of what IS appropriate to treat your hens with. Or, you can just do all of the above except without the $$ complicated certification, and call them "uncertified organic" which is kind of in a grey area of the law...or you can just feed them non-gmo feed (look for local grain farmers, avoid corn and soy unless specifically labelled non gmo) and bugs and meat scraps and call them "all natural"...OR you can make up your own true, catchy marketing phrase for whatever method you end up comfortable with. Like on the wall at our local KFC, it says, "Farm raised with no added hormones". Well, DUH! since that's EVERY chicken, but it sounds good to the granola sheeple :D

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Sat Nov 26, 2016 7:48 am

WWW is right. to "qualify" for organic, the farm has to be organic for a few years, then you qualify. throw a banana peel in your compost pile and they find it...organic status gone...poof.

to qualify as "free range" they can be locked up in a barn and have access to free range which means open the chicken door ONE DAY during their life. "pasture raised or pastured" "non-gmo" has more meaning in my opinion.

Farrier1987 · Post by **Farrier1987** » Sat Nov 26, 2016 9:09 am

I feed whole grains, wheat corn and oats mixed about equally. And limestone grit, does the grinding job and adds calcium for good shells. Works for me anyway. And oh yeah, we don't compost anything. All goes to the goats and chickens, composted by the next day.