Real protein begets real protein

@Phoenix407

6 ай бұрын

Mom's dog breeder feeding high quality food one of the ingredients made the dogs less fertile on purpose she didn't know and had half the number of litter for a given year

@y00t00b3r

6 ай бұрын

Yes, chickens should be eating BUGS! Chickens eat bugs. Humans should not eat bugs, despite the propaganda. We can eat bugs indirectly, by eating the things which eat the bugs. And the eggs from those things.

@MephitisUK

6 ай бұрын

@@y00t00b3r There's a cockroach farm in China that keeps them in large rooms, they feed them waste food from the local restaurants, about 50 tons a day, then they are used as chicken and animal food.

@grntitan1

6 ай бұрын

@@y00t00b3rWhen all that is left to eat is bugs, it’s time for me to check out.

@Leftfield2k7

6 ай бұрын

Utter nonsense, bugs even for humans are a far better and healthier source of protein then the garbage processed red meat that most people eat! @@y00t00b3r

I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.

Give them back the egg shells, lobster and shrimp shells, absolutely everything of scraps. Let the chicken themselves sort out what they want to eat.

@Zeknix

6 ай бұрын

Some towns way back in the day would allow pigs to roam free one day a week to clean out everyone's trash of organic material. Kind of a shame to see so much organic waste ending up in a landfill instead of getting cycled back into the carbon cycle.

@stevenkelby2169

6 ай бұрын

There are plenty of things that chickens will eat that will kill them. Up to you though.

@feelincrispy7053

6 ай бұрын

To be fair I once chucked out some old-ish spagbol with a little bit of mold on it and lo and behold there was a dead chicken the next day.. I didn’t say anything to the ol lady, just told her the chook must have been getting old lol soo not sure it should be absolutely anything. Could have been a coincidence 🤷‍♂️

@ausername69420

6 ай бұрын

after only one day and the only one, she musta been already on the way out@@feelincrispy7053

Best eggs I've had were from chickens raised on compost piles. They chose whatever food scraps they wanted, but also spent most of the day picking bugs out. When they have a lot of insects in their diet the shells get about 10x harder than store-bought eggs and the yolks look way more orange. The orange color comes from the carotenoids - bonus antioxidants. The yolks also feel way creamier.

We're a family of four, sometimes five. We have 3 chickens in our backyard. We feed them seeds (mostly corn) and let the free range all day. They lay one egg each every day; it exceed our needs and we give eggs regularly to other members of the family. The hens have names, personalities and they make great mascots also!

Do an experiment pick 6 as equally matched health wise hens feed 2 nothing but feed, 2 nothing but table scraps, and 2 a mixture. That would be an interesting video.

@bigsexymanbear1950

6 ай бұрын

Science!

I’m experiencing the same thing. We are swimming in eggs with less chicken feed. My mom was asking what is different. I have baskets of eggs too! I have a chicken bucket by the sink and my friends bring scraps. Happy girls.

@cliveb9771

6 ай бұрын

In UK it is ILLEGAL to feed your hens kitchen scraps even if your household is vegan. Really.

@evolutionglitch4739

6 ай бұрын

​@@cliveb9771 that's pathetic, but I believe you. Here and I thought the US of A was nigh on lost!😢

@MephitisUK

6 ай бұрын

@@cliveb9771 Here's the odd thing though, if you peel your vegetables outside, you can feed them to your hens/pigs, but you can't feed your peelings to them if you do it in the kitchen. That being said our hens and pigs used to get kitchen waste anyway, it's an almost impossible law to police in domestic settings.

@rdouthwaite

6 ай бұрын

​@@cliveb9771who's checking...? Just saying.

@TDOBrandano

6 ай бұрын

In Europe eggs that are farmed for sale must come from hens that have been inoculated for Salmonella, and that have been kept segregated from wild birds to avoid avian flu (generally using large overhead nets for "freeranging" chickens). This means that eggs sold in supermarkets are not bleached, and will keep for months if you store them in the fridge. I assume that the matter of them getting fed human food scraps is to avoid transmission of other potential diseases from partly eaten food, stuff like epathitis and similar. But I bet that these restrictions only apply for eggs that are for sale. Kitchen scraps that are a byproduct of cooking and never reached someone's mouth should be perfectly safe.

30 years ago I used to raise my own chickens. Rock x Cornish for meat and Rhode Island reds for eggs. The Roadies were fed blue seal layer mash and we had very good luck with them, never had any weird shells or anything strange about them we ate them for years . The strange thing with Sears would mail you the chicks wish you had to put in an incubator for a few weeks. Addition of the mash they were allowed to roam around the yard and eat anything they wanted mostly bugs. Got about one egg per chicken per day.

@tonynicholson3328

6 ай бұрын

Grey seal mash is also good, at a pinch whale will suffice...😮

It's almost as if there were some sort of something set up to function without human involvement. And then when you get humans involved, that something makes much more somethings. But if you get human involvement and remove the original something, something goes wrong.

We moved ours to better feed, and the eggs increased. They always get people food scraps, and all of the chicken food they want, but the high protein feed still made a difference. I find that table scraps make more quality difference than quantity difference.

Not a bad problem to have, you're just in time for egg nog season!

The store bought feed has the perfect ratios of nearly impossible to absorb inorganic minerals and molecularly pure, non complexed vitamins. Exactly the way the mother nature never ever ever, except for absolutely never, intended for living creatures to eat.

@MrPossumeyes

6 ай бұрын

So can you explain the vid contents and more than a few of the comments?

@mcyclonegt

6 ай бұрын

Do you have a cite for this information?

@domesday1535

6 ай бұрын

this is absolutely true. Nutritionists do know better but the numbers are always played to sneak in more chemically pure nutrition sources according to this or that study about how much an animal can chelate etc. but a biological system can't be gamed like that. If an animal is chelating every mg of minerals it ingests it's not going to have as much protein as it needs to make eggs for example

@moto-bruvs666

6 ай бұрын

@@mcyclonegt😂

@Stealth86651

6 ай бұрын

You can just look at the ingredients on the bags/websites of the products, nothing they said isn't publicly accessible information.

Get with a brewer (all grain) and get some of the grains after a batch has been brewed. Feed that to your chickens and enjoy the harvest. A woman down the street from me used to take the spent grain when I was brewing. Chickens would go completely APE when they ate it. Produced more, and larger, eggs for those days. I've put brewing on 'pause' for now. Once I get into a place of my own I'll look at doing it again. Maybe I'll luck out and another neighbor will also have chickens so that I can get truely fresh eggs to eat.

I work at a small Co-op and we legally can’t give leftovers away to anyone but staff. When the hot bar closes sometimes I grab about half or more of a 5 gallon bucket of scraps for them! Only issue I have with them is that they are now picky about their scraps since they had the good stuff!

The off-grid home steaders were saying the same thing here in the states about the store bought chicken feed. They said stop using store bought chicken feed and watch your hens produce 5 times more eggs!

@johnscott2849

6 ай бұрын

They have been saying that they are pretty sure that there additives in it so they lay less.

@woodlanditguy2951

6 ай бұрын

@@johnscott2849 The grain in the chicken feed is soaked in Glyphosate right before harvest. Glyphosate is a known reproduction disruptor and eggs are part of the reproductive system. This is a relatively new process but farmers have really doubled down on the Roundup in the past 3-4 years.

To buff your feed naturally; Takota Coen is an farmer out of northern Ontario who uses ponds to harvest aquatic plants and tiny animals as feed. He has a KZread channel and his most viewed video has him explaining the process of integrating ecosystems with raising livestock.

We had an issue with Tractor Supply feed last year when our egg production came to a halt. We changed their feed to a different brand and within a couple of weeks we were back in business. We have relatively young hens producing 8-10/day over the summer but now that winter is here and the days are shorter we're down to 2-3/day. We spoil our chickens with good quality feed and lots of scraps, but egg production seems to be dependent upon the amount of light they get each day not what they eat.

@babaluto

6 ай бұрын

I work with folks on how to set up a backyard chicken pens and feeding habits. After speaking with a few people from around my area, I went and looked at TS feeds. Although I did not send a sample to check for aflatoxin/black mold, I use a simpler storage method rule of thumb. If the relative humidity plus the temperature °f added together is above 100, mold starts through oxidation. This mold threshold occurs when the humidity of the product reaches 19%. Sometimes when bagged feed is trucked when it's warm for days then set inside the air-conditioned TS store, there can be condensation on the inside surface of the bag. It only takes a tiny bit of mold to form to contaminate the whole bag. It doesn't need to be clumpy or black to be present but if you do notice clumps, nix it. The TS folks say there were no issues found with their feeds but did they test it at the most likey point in the supply chain? They couldn't tell me.

@GuyWithTheDogs

6 ай бұрын

Scanning through the comments, I don't see much support for this theory.

@warped2875

6 ай бұрын

I have a friend that this happened to, he was telling me his egg production was extremely low, almost nonexistent. I asked him if he had heard about the TS feed issue, and he had no clue about it. He looked into it, changed up his feed, and his hens started laying back to normal wintertime levels.

@Double_Vision

6 ай бұрын

If that's what the food for the chickens does, imagine what the food for the people does.

@grants169

6 ай бұрын

I toss a single 60watt bulb in the coup and have it turn on around 4am. Eggs keep coming.

Hey AVE if you want to store some of those eggs for the winter. look up WATER GLASSING EGGS this will give you eggs all through winter, it's how the pioneers used to store their bounty when their chickens were laying very good. I know some people will put an infrared light in their chicken house in winter time this will force them to lay even in the off season. Imo I don't think that this is a very good idea nessaserly, because chickens aren't meant to lay all through winter. Hey chickens need a break to. But I thought this might help you. Love your channel.

We have 20 chickens, and the feed I was giving them since I started raising chickens dropped my production down to 1-2 per day. I switched to a local farm that makes their own feed and in 1 week my production went back to 10-12 per day, as the days were already getting shorter. Never looked back. We are back to normal production of 12-15 a day.

We fed our hens a mixture of leftovers, home-kill beef carcass leftovers (maggot farm) and standard feed. Best eggs I've ever eaten. I think the difference may be that the hens enjoy diversity in their diet, just like we do. Variance in texture, flavour and smell. They like extra snacks rather than the big-food-pile-once-a-day thing. They like their food to be found in multiple places around their run. All of this probably promotes extra egg-laying because it gives the impression of plenty of food to go around. These things come from the jungle. Give them a really diverse jungle diet.

@faceplants2

6 ай бұрын

That was great feedback and also makes sense through the evolutionary lens. Cheers

@mark6205

6 ай бұрын

I do not think birds have taste buds.....thats what I have been told....

@skachor

6 ай бұрын

Scent receptors provide a lot of information on how things taste for humans anyways. Maybe birds don't need taste receptors.@@mark6205

I homebrew and used to give the spent grains to a friend's chickens (loved it). Have heard about the 'bad' feed and egg production. Thanks for getting the word out.

There I something with the feed. I've seen comments from farms in the US where their chickens stopped laying. They cut the feed and fed them a wide variety of scraps and stuff grown on the farm. Result, the chickens started laying eggs again.

yes in vermont the store bought feed halted egg production almost completely in 2021. this is a known thing among us small farmers the proof is they made a fact check about it saying its not true...

Back when I kept chickens I barely fed them store bought feed during the green months. Kept them a pile of calcium. They got table scraps and I would run the maggot bucket on offal from the other livestock. They also got to roam the entire property. Side by side my eggs were bigger, the yolks were almost orange and there was a noticeable flavor difference. During the cold months I supplemented with hydro fodder (mostly winter wheat with a bit of sunflower sprouted in). There was still a noticeable difference in the eggs.

When I was a child I wanted to plant a few trees on our land. Dad agreed and sourced a few from the nursery. One was an oak. I wanted two oaks. I saw no reason why not to nab a sapling from the forest. We planted those oaks about 50 feet apart, all other things being equal. The nursery oak did fine. Slow growing as you would expect. The one I got from the treeline shot up straight and proud, and branched into a majestic shade tree beautifully proportioned over a decade and a half. In just 5 years the difference was glaring. I did not know oaks could grow that fast.

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

Interesting, but how does this relate to the original topic re chicken feed & chicken egg production?

@ThatsSpectacular

6 ай бұрын

@@__WJK__ The question was, "What's going on?" It's not irrelevant. The answer is we are hamstringing everything and calling it better. Just because more calories are coming out of the ground does not mean we are flourishing. They want us to eat soybeans and insects because supposedly that's living in equilibrium with nature. There's a reason my body loves meat and sugar.

@skachor

6 ай бұрын

In this similar situation, the trees play the role of store bought vs home harvested eggs. Hope that helps.@@__WJK__

Being a farm kid, I was tasked with the chicken chores as a youth, and the only thing they were fed was scraps and oats. Bugs in the summer when they could roam the yard as we are in a cold climate of the USA version. My grandma would keep the eggshells and we would feed them back to the chickens after she accrued a sugar bag full. We didn't eat chicken much so they lived a full life also, but after expiration became wonderful pig food as there would be no sign of a chicken 10 minutes after being tossed in the pig pen.

People were noticing this issue last year here in the States. I remember seeing one post about a guy hydrating new feed and some old feed he had lying around. New stuff wasn't expanding and hydrating. Some were concluding they were filling the feed with some sort of filler that the chickens were just crapping out. Good chance they had a supply shortage and need to make up the lost mass.

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

YES! Feed suppliers are either cutting major corners (which is similar to what we see with pet food) and/or someone's trying to totally sabotage people trying to homestead/live sustainably off their own land.

One of my friends had their chickens about stop laying all together on purina chicken feed. She switched to feed from our local feed mill and they started laying normally again.

@nunyabusiness7477

6 ай бұрын

Tractor supply house brand feed is supplied by Purina. My birds stopped laying until I switched away from tractor supply.

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain"

J.C. and Les Boys will be busy on this one…..I wasn’t believing the chicken feed controversy from the past, but……….if AvE is noticing something then maybe I need an attitude adjustment…….i love your age out retirement package, you are are true shop steward…….

Yup, had the same problem with feed from town. I don't know why but I have my suspicions

Last year there were producers saying the same thing. 👍

The ISS needs a chicken coop

Nice job Buddy, well done. That's a sign of happy chickens, pure and simple.

When I had chickens, I used bagged feed and consistently got 1 egg per day per hen. They occasionally got table scraps, but 95% of their diet was bag feed. The major factors I found were: amount of light per day, and calcium supplementation. In the winter we supplemented the light to keep them laying, and most importantly, we gave them oyster shells for calcium. Without extra calcium, we got fewer eggs. Oh and they were allowed to roam to eat insects and whatever else they wanted.

Fellow farmer and farm rescue here. Ferment your feed, especially the store stuff. They'll eat less and be more hydrated. Really helps with ducks and vitamin b.

@longsleevethong1457

6 ай бұрын

Can you explain this a little further? I’m gona look it up too.

@tewksindahat

6 ай бұрын

@@longsleevethong1457 mix feed with water in a bucket, let it get bubbly, ready after three days. Stinks but my birds love it

Farm fresh eggs blow any store bought out of the water by a long way! What a variety you have there, Cotswold legbars, burford browns? Keep doing what you're doing and you'll have the cockerels laying eggs 😁

@davidnicolas8019

6 ай бұрын

What's the difference between farm fresh and store bought?

@digger105337

6 ай бұрын

Canadian cold asses😂

@kmor8829

6 ай бұрын

@@davidnicolas8019About 6 weeks! That's what he was saying…the store eggs take quite a while to get to the store. Another way to know how fresh is your egg…try to boil it. The shell on a fresh egg is quite ‘soft’ and will more likely explode during the boil. The longer the shell is exposed to air, the harder it gets…and more able to stand boiling.

@davidnicolas8019

6 ай бұрын

@@kmor8829 I guess what I was asking was if you have a farm fresh egg and a store bought one, is the taste noticeably different or is it purely about the age issue?

@bluetoes591

6 ай бұрын

​@@davidnicolas8019They have a lot more taste! Much tastier.

"Chickens are evil creatures," to quote the former owner of my ranch. But eggs are delicious and healthy food. When I finally get chickens, it'll be a complicated relationship. Thanks for posting - thumbs up as always.

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

Nature is absolutely rutheless on so many levels.

@mattploij2673

6 ай бұрын

chickens are chickens. they don't have a concept of good or evil. they have one diety, the flock. the flock above all. roosters don't attack people because they're evil. roosters attack people because stay the fuck away from the flock. fight or flight - the problem with flight is that they're jungle animals. they don't fly because they evolved to jump and hide between dense undergrowth. a farm doesn't have undergrowth to hide the flock in, hence fight.

My mate had the same experience here in the UK earlier this year. We came to the same conclusion - Feed NFG.

We have only 21 chickens and 5 ducks. We are up to our navels in eggs, in the late fall. I credit/blame it on the dried soldier fly larvae we feed them with good commercial feed and vegetable scraps.

We had a farm for a few years in Southwestern Onterrible, near Owen Sound. Until that is, the RBC loved our farm so much they took it away from us. Anyhoo, we had about 30 hens who had free run of the barnyard spring till fall, and avwhole corner of the barn in the winter. When we fed them straight grain, plus all our table scraps and garden waste, the egfs were huge, beautiful, golden yolks... I mean heaven. When we bought feed from a Purina mill as I remember, the shells were thin and the eggs tasted storebought. The real trick was to give the hens chickengrits - twofold purpose, grinding food in the gizzard and supplying extra calcium. A bag in the back of the pickup was also good on ice :)

@ChrisLoganToronto

6 ай бұрын

I have had luck with the banks, basically, pay off the mortgage monthly and they usually leave you alone. Bay Streeters are not looking for hobbies

@MetalAsFork

6 ай бұрын

>the RBC loved our farm so much they took it away from us I'd hear more if ya wanna tell more. Sounds awful.

@misterbreakit2006

6 ай бұрын

@@MetalAsFork thanks for your interest. Nothing really special. My family immigrated to Canaderp in the early '80s, and bought a house 3 years later. Itself a feat, I mean just try doing that today. Anyhoo, they decided that they were going to have a farm, like their grandparents in the old country. So they sold their house, mortgaged the farm property so that they could use equity from the house to get the farm going. Got into a few shitty lines of farming and loat most of that cash. At 18% interest to the RBC, the payments on the farm got ahead of them. Their day jobs didn't cover the shortfall, and the RBC didn't want to negotiate (despite the fact that they were mortgaging for 9% by then). So it all went tits up, and they foreclosed. As I say, a story like thousands of others in the early '90s. Needless to say, I won't do any business with those RBC c***s.

My grandparents and some aunts / uncles, back in the old country (Greece), kept chickens in their yards. They would feed them table scraps and left overs. When I was a wee lad of 10 years I freaked out when my grandmother tossed a roasted chicken carcas into the coup. The chickens just devoured it. The would eat anything. I had a pet crab that I brought home from the beach one day, and I thought it would like to play with the chickens ... but it was a horror show man. Burned into my genetic memory so much so that my kids will remember it. Great eggs though. The best eggs I have ever eaten. Definitely a different flavour to North American eggs. They were just soooooo good.

@Iceberg86300

6 ай бұрын

Omfg that poor crab. And you! 🤣 Don't think I've ever actually laid eyes on a chicken & yet the visuals hit me instantly. 🤣

@mohrass1

6 ай бұрын

Dear God!! That's hilarious!!

@logancurl9526

6 ай бұрын

🦀🐓 😆😂🤣

We've definitely had the same experience. Our chickens are fed with extra stuff from the garden, have scraps, occasionally a locally made feed that's primarily a grain mix, and every spring after harvest a super sack of the clean out from the local co-op. The mixed grains and whatnot that fall through the elevators

"You want some farm fresh eggs?" "Maybe, how are they?" "They're pretty good."

This has been going on for some time now, saw a video from a chicken farmer saying that the egg count on commercial feed had taken a big drop some time this last year, there where hens that had escaped but had stuck around the farm, when they found those eggs, they discovered they where better quality. The escaped hens had been feeding themselves without processed foods.

You need some French Marans, huge chocolate coloured eggs. We have limousin greys, old local breed, huge yolks, bright rich colour, beautiful, taste like butter! Let them destroy the veg patch at the end of the season, rest their usual ground and next year's veg will be well nourished. Bugs, lizards, snakes (if you have the coq for it!) they love meat, anything. Too much veg gives them the shits, plenty of space, they know whats good and thrive on finding it themselves. Mine especially adore the log pile/splitting area, lots of treats to be had. Edited for general crommulance.

Store bought chicken feed is less caloric per volume and contains a lot of material that chickens cannot digest as well as oils that speed up their digestion. The eggs are one difference, but seeing the difference in the chicken poop is even bigger.

The jolly rancher, sweet, sticky and hard 😂

Something changed in the big name feed a few years ago; my ducks just stopped laying. I tried a couple different feeds from smaller brands and found one that got them laying again.

I used to keep chickens and fed them all manner of vegetable peelings, kitchen scraps and leftovers gathered from the office fridge. My co-workers would even scrawl "for the girls" on the side of their leftover Chinese food rice tubs. Commercial food was put out for them, but they seldom ate it, preferring scraps and whatever vegetation and bugs they'd find in the yard. We'd also let them into our fenced vegetable garden for a supervised hour or so, and they'd happily rid it of pests...once they started eyeballing the veggies, they'd get ushered out. The eggs were unworldly, with traffic-cone orange yolks that sat up high and proud in the pan.

Love your channel pure BC. From the coast myself :)👍🎉✨

All protein is not digestible by all animals. Back in the nineteen hundreds ,my father was raising feeder pigs and, a crafty feed salesmen sold him some revolutionary new pelletized pig feed for an amazingly cheap price. When asked about the protein content the salesman assured him that it had been scientifically tested and was guaranteed to have plenty of protein for the young swine. After a few days on their new ration Pop took a shovelful of the critters leavings and scooped it into a bucket. He then ran the garden hose into the bucket until he spied something very interesting, it was all that protein the salesman had talked about. It was chicken feathers. Technically protein but indigestible to hogs. I had a similar experience during the pandemic pause. The big box store layer feed was being mixed with a new formula and the girls quit laying. After a couple weeks of this I surmised that a crafty feed salesman was at it again. I bought a bag of 22% protein meat bird food and used it to supplement the 16% layer crumbles. Within a week we had more eggs than we could eat. Two different spices, two different salesmen, forty years between the two story’s but the same old scam. I suppose the moral of the story is either “follow the money” or “there is nothing new under the sun”.

Yup, had the same problem. Changed feed supplier and got more eggs. Never used Purina or any other brands. Just farm store ground feeds. Also let them roam and give them the kitchen scraps. They love pumpkin , squash and anything red like tomatoes or strawberries

It's a communicative vibration psyching the chicks cause you've been holding out and they are digging on your groove, getting hot and laying for ya - eh!

When I was a kid we raised our own chickens for eggs and meat. We had exactly the same experience and that was in the 1950's.

As you age, you tend to choke the chicken less which results in... where was I?

Got 12 young Cream Legbar, they’ve bested our garden fence this year….so they’re eaten pretty well. All olive an light blue. Lots of double yolks. 🤷🏼‍♂️ We need a couple black Marans to get our rainbow going. Also want to ad a couple Indian Runners this spring. Love your farming content. 😊👍 Our more experienced and neighbor mentioned something about weird egg feed this summer, he’s using Walmart pellets with scratch grain as well. Said he threw in Goat feed an saw an increase in production. Said something about the “layer feed being off” 🤷🏼‍♂️

Greetings from the Philippines! We are starting a small chicken farm and very curious as to what bread do you have running around? We’ve heard lots of stories just like yours and it seems that expensive food isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Others say they’re deliberately contaminating chicken food as to produce less eggs on purpose…

This has been reported on homesteading channels on KZread with the store bought bagged chook feed,the manufacturers are doing something to the feed that’s slowing chickens down on laying,even stopping them laying completely !

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

Feed suppliers are either cutting major corners (which is similar to what we see with pet food) and/or someone's trying to sabotage people trying to homestead/live sustainably off their own land.

People noticed a big drop in egg production per hen about 3 years or so. I do not have chickens so just going off of what I saw others mention. Switching to goat feed apparently caused some chickens to double their egg production. Something in the feed changed. Maybe manufacturers switching to lower quality ingredients because of supply change issues? The theory that made the most sense I read was too little protein in the altered mixes.

@littlejackalo5326

6 ай бұрын

It's not possible for chickens to double their egg production. They already lay 300 eggs a year. They can't start producing an egg every 14 hours. It's just not possible.

@Worrsaint

6 ай бұрын

@littlejackalo5326 I think you are misunderstanding the post. The chickens saw a big drop in egg production prior to switching the feed. As in their production prior to the doubling was significantly lower than it should have been. It was not a doubling of the normal amount.

Local rural store (chain) has a free range feed with some sort of enzyme - Allzyme - in it. Makes the eggs look and taste awesome. They still prefer coarse mash but it's a balance between production and quality.

I was involved in the dog sport Schutzhund for a while and it’s customary to feed raw food to working dogs (chickens, eggs, etc). These are very expensive and loved dogs, so naturally I didn’t want to inadvertently injure my dog. One of the club members was a veterinarian so I asked her if it was a reasonable risk to feed my dog raw bones everyday. She of course hedged everything but conceded that she fed raw and didn’t bother to remove bones-but one of her anecdotes was interesting: she showed some skepticism about its nutritional value because when she started practicing she could readily see chicken bones on radiographs-but the typical cheap mass-produced 10lb chicken quarter bags from Walmart we feed to our dogs had bones that were basically radio-translucent in her practice.

Thats quite the variety of eggs there!

I heard there used to be something called Chicken Scratch. And you could use that stuff to make some of your very own Lysergic Detergent. But, that was a long time ago.

We free range in the suburbs… we have a rooster (neighbors don’t complain) get 1 egg a day from each for 2 years now. Haven’t lost a hen yet to anything. Pretty amazing actually because the hawks/ eagles and dogs and cats. I’ll never buy eggs again. I bought an incubator and gave chicks to everyone I know that wanted them. Mixed LegBars with Leghorns and get giant blue eggs. Cheers from Florida!

In the winter my chickens don't find as many bugs or weeds to eat and rely a lot on bag feed, but summers (Florida) their yolks are amber to golden color, they produce MUCH more and even the shells are harder and the eggs are larger. The bag stuff is avail to them year round, but they simply don't eat much in the summer.

Layer pellets n the states have been associated reduced egg production for two years now.

I have had chooks before, they can only lay so many eggs per day no matter what they are feed, I have used very cheep pellet feed and with others natural scrap feed which included free range style grasses, flowers, and even spiders and cocroches, I never noted any real difference in the amount they lay, although the quality of the egg was noted.

We always gave our kitchen scraps to the chickens. We also would have a few chickens close by whenever we would flip rocks, logs, or move stuff. They would go nuts for anything underneath!

I wanna somehow get our chickens to lay eggs with GPs location tags in them so I can track where they're laying. Being free range with 600m2 of gardens to roam around in, they're hiding them really good.

@RedBear345

6 ай бұрын

A finely tuned Fit Bit, with some open source software would discern the difference between a raptor step and a "standing ovation", and coyld subsequently communicate GPS to an access point of your choosing. But if you're not so tech savvy, maybe the iYolk is what your brood needs.

In the spring my uncle who lived in N. Michigan would dig up part of an ant hill, and put it in a big bucket. The ants at first went crazy but eventually settled down and went to the bottom of the bucket. He would scoop out ants and dirt and toss it out to the little spring chicks, man they went nuts for the ants, and larva. He had the healthiest little chicks.. 🐣 Not really germane, but hey it’s my only chicken story!

AvE, like a flash it occurred to me that you haven't made a video in months. I feared some tragedy had befallen you! I logged on and checked, and sure as shit this damn KZread unsubscribed me from your channel! I'd heard of that happening, but it was a first for me. Glad to see you're still living the life!

the 'okayish' feed I get in Australia, I get 6 eggs a week from each chicken, unlimited feed (self feeders). I give 1 small handfull of sunflower seeds per 3 chickens as a daily treat. If I give them more sunflower or any other treats they don't eat enough of the layer pellets and stop laying as much. Pellets are 100% better than mixed grain because the only eat the yummy bits of the mix and not what they need. Pellets force them to eat a balanced diet.

Just a clarification, the Gregorian calendar is what we use, and the Gregorian date is just today’s date. The code on the box is likely to be the Julian date. The actual Julian date is the number of days since the Julian calendar was introduced in 45 BCE by Julius Caesar. But more commonly in manufacturing the term “Julian Date” refers to what day number it is In the year. In the food plant I work we use the best before based on the date at the start of a product run and will use that date for the whole run even if it goes over multiple days. We will print the Julian date and time on the bottle for traceability of the actual day it was made. E.g. today 30th November is 2470278 Julian, or in the simpler usage day of the year 334. I’ve also seen the year included 23334.

Eggs are Boneless Chickens!

my orpington hens one of them at least layed her first egg today and i found it and put it in the fridge, gonna eat it later, i'm so excited.

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

They lay some monsters. Next might be a double yolker, poor hen.

Currently raising 3 Killer B's at our house nowhere near the Prairie. Betty,a Buff Brahma and Bea&Belle, New Hampshire Reds. Fed 'em people grade food as close to organic and "the source" as possible. This includes grass and worms which I gladly help them look for. They started egging at approximately 5 months,when the convention internet wise-dumb said 8. Yes,it's the feed. Commercial scratch is laced with synthetic vitamins and minerals-even the Fancy Feasting Brand. Nothing comes close to a True Free Range method for producing quality eggs which will be gooder for ya!

I'm on the same quest to create the perfect egg. I'm playing with black copper marans, Blue copper marans, blue splash cochins, white leghorns, RIR, Barred Plymoth Rock, and Amaruacana. I'm also drowning in eggs. We feed our 3 dozen chickens high quality feed that is locally grown, none of this national super farmed grain that is soaked in Roundup. I believe why so many people are having egg problems is because the grain is soaked in Roundup right before harvest. Farmers have used Roundup for decades, but more recently, they have started the practice of using Roundup to force ripen the grains. They spray it a few days before harvest. What it does is dries out the grains and in the plant's final dieing action, it forces all it's energy into the seeds. The major problem with this is the Roundup never gets washed off the grain. That grain later gets feed to livestock and chickens where it then contaminates the chicken's reproductive system causing a rather steep decrees in egg production. The feed label won't reflect the added Glyphosate content in the feed, the feed mill (as far as they know) hasn't changed any ingredient. If you are having egg problems not related to simple molting, look at where you get your chicken feed, investigate where they get the grains that they use to mix the feed, then ask if they use Roundup (Glyphosate) to cure the grains before harvest. This will likely be the issue.

Thought we got a candid of ya at first.

Farmers Almanac said chickens are most productive before a hard winter. I like good old wives' tales .

Top tip : the fresher the egg is the harder it is to peel after you boil it. If you get one that peels beautiful, then it's been around for a while.

@OnGuard3S

6 ай бұрын

I find the opposite to be true.

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

@@OnGuard3S - Real world experiance shows older eggs will peel better after boiling, though I wouldn't be the least surprised if breed "maybe" plays a part in certain (fresh) eggs being easier to peel (after boiling) than others(?) It was, and still is, common in practice our family to buy 6 dozen eggs 2-3 weeks before the Easter holiday, so all the Easter Eggs peel super-easy during our family's Easter brunch and dinner.

in the winter we feed 18% protein and table/restaurant scraps and treat wit scratch a few days a week, we get at least 75% production a day, we have about 40 birds so 3 dozen a day. and we are out in the Cariboo

I mean how many eggs would you be laying if your breakfast lunch and dinner was the same exact thing that came in a bag from halfway across the world?

north of you , in quesnel..... i have noticed the same thing ..... less feed , more scraps = more and bigger eggs

I don't have any chickens now. I have a buddy that grinds his own feed and when the rumor was going around that the leading chicken feed producer changed the formulation to cut down on egg production he saw no drop in production.

Enjoy the harvest. What you can't sell, boil and refrigerate after cooling...reasonable amounts though! I wouldn't be surprised that the feed isn't up to par...probably got more calcium in it so the shells of the Battery Farmed eggs are tougher for mass handling.. As the pinned comment says, "Real Protein begets Real Protein"...like the Fuel Economy Game...You can't win, you will never draw even, you will always lose...something! All the best Mountain Rancher, to you and all with you. Cheers!

We switched from a large name feed to a feed thats produced at a local feed mill. We do get more eggs and the birds eat less feed.

We feed our layer ducks and meat turkeys a mix of some commercial feed, fermented grains from grain screenings out of a local grain elevator, garden scraps, table/kitchen scraps, buckets of apples when the local yard trees start dropping them and let them free range on pasture. Now they are also getting milled grain from field spills that we ran though our feed mill and are doing better than they ever did on commercial layer feed and the same for my sister in law's laying hens. We definitely can tell the difference the less commercial feed they get.

I have a conspiracy on this, regular feed is laced with something so as you need to buy their special "laying" feed to produce eggs.

My guess is that it's the vegetables. My father grew up on a farm and he said they fed the chickens alfalfa in the winter and that helped with egg production.

Imagine a device that can turn compost into muscle food. Now imagine it’s smarter than a horse. Behold the mighty chicken!

I will be very upset if AvE doesn't do his story reading this Christmas

@fargley001

6 ай бұрын

No doubt - I'm going to really miss Apetor's annual Christmas/vodka icecapade. God rest that man's soul.

I dont know what is in chicken feed but judging by the way the government is hurting farmers, I'm guessing it is designed to give lower yield.

There are several other you tube farm channels that have exposed that the feed is treated some way that reduces egg output. They believe this is deliberate. Off Grid with Doug and Stacey.

@smartgorilla

6 ай бұрын

higher egg prices so they stay up.... cheeky

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

Devious supply and demand tactics, I suspect }:(

@smartgorilla

6 ай бұрын

@@__WJK__ eggsactly. Business is saying it's not them. It's the whole damn chain doing it.

Yup, same thing happened with our last flock that were fed various large brand feeds. Since then we switched to a smaller/local no corn/no soy feed (plus all the kitchen/garden/yard scraps as usual) and we're back to getting plenty of healthy eggs. I'd expect similar results for anyone eating major brands of peoplechow. They want us unhealthy and/or dead.

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

For sure & let us make no mistake "sick care" (vs preventitive care) is a disturbing multi-trillion dollar industry.

If I remember correctly, there was an issue with several feed brands changing their formulation a while ago that resulted in a lot of homesteaders getting less and in some cases, no eggs. If you wanna do the math on the macros, it'd be better to buy the raw grains in bulk and make your own feed, but definitely keep giving them any scraps and extras you can. Micronutrients and Electrolytes are just as important as Macronutrients, and chickens, like all animals, have a sense as to what they are missing in their diet and will seek it out if it's available to them.

I worked for a feed place and when we did the chicken pellets we’d put any old shit in there plus the milmix. We’d put bird seed fines , rotten oats, floor scraps ,we even put biscuits in there got from a bloke

Our laying chickens only lived 3 or 4 years and would die. Recently, one was hunched over ready to die. I wormed her 3 days in a row, the third day there was mucus like egg white coming out their mouth. The fourth day, she was fine. Her feathers are starting to grow back. Remember to worm your chickens every year!

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

Hmm, very interesting!

WEF food reduction program. You eat z bugs, not for the Greenhouse gas producing Chickens. 🐓💨

I've had all kinda of birds, turkeys,ducks and chickens, because of the great number of predators they were completely fenced in. Top, bottom all around. They would get store feed as well as any veg we could get our hands on. The church up the road had an apple tree and we would get the windfall off the ground, even the lawn cuttings(the ducks loved those) even raised a batch of worms for them. they were all one egg a day. So much better/ yummy than store bought. Currently I have quail. The eggs are small but consistent. I get a dozen every day. I'm thinking about pickling sum for Christmas gifts.

@__WJK__

6 ай бұрын

Yes or even better... make some homemade eggnog!!

@vadimbellous8313

6 ай бұрын

Ah, quail eggs, I used to drink a dozen or more every morning when we kept quails. Now we keep chickens only, about 15 of them for the family. I think I'll get some quail again. I heard somewhere that quail eggs are a healthier choice when comparing eggs. However, that claim could be a bunch of BS.