From what I am gathering it's not what was or is left out it's something they added that stops the production so fast......just something to think about ✌️
So they could raise the prices in the stores? A lot of city folks were even getting their eggs from farmers, and when farmers don't have enough even for their own family let alone selling whatever they don't need , they waited a bit. Then people started figuring out what was going on. ?? Our township wanted to even stop people from having hens. Already can't have roosters. But folks nipped that in the bud! I hope Pearl is getting better! 🙏🙏❤️❤️. Take care and God bless always
I get my feed from farm and fleet, tractor supply is 45min away. My chickens are lying really good for winter. 🐓♥️😊 I bet new baby chicks wont be as cheep as they were.
@Lana K. from New Mexico hope enough of folks in your area will band together and put a stop to municipalities Secretly voting to take rights away from people to have their own chickens for eggs and meat chickens.
Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, is getting ready to do an analysis of the TS feed to see if there is anything in there that is causing hens to stop laying. If anyone can find out, he can. He is a food scientist with a certified facility.
I don't trust him. When he compared dog food to the clots found in vaccinated cadavers I unsubscribed. That experiment was a scientific joke. He is a journalist/blogger playing scientist. He has no scientific background, nor a degree in any of the sciences. He should hire an actual lab. If he does not use gas chromatography and breaks out ph litmus sticks ... run
I just listened to Mike Adams AKA The Health Ranger and he said that he will find out what is going on with the feed if it was intentional or if it might be caused by the length of time that it takes for the ingredients to be shipped to the manufacturer or possibly how it is being stored ( moisture, mold) he is releasing the report no matter if it is in favor of TSC or not .
@timothyandsarahbreedlove2172 he will be going up against Purina then. Since they're connected. I quit with any Purina products years ago. We used to feed several of their horse feeds. Horses had so many issues 1 year, I called and spent 2 hours on the phone with 1 of their so called specialists. In the end, they tried to blame my hay source must live far away from where the horses are kept,lol! Like it matters where good hay is grown 😆 She gave up when I let her know ours comes from our next door neighbor and is tested. Horses wormed and fecal done and only thing that helped? Changing off Purina feed!
Sorry, but he is what I call The Wallet Ranger. I don’t trust him. Would you trust chicken feed analysis to a guy who was selling $10,000 Ebola end of the world suits? He’s no scientist. His credentials are slim meaning no bona fide degrees.
Glad to hear that. I use Dumor. This winter eggs production dropped. Switched to n entirely different brand from a local feed store. No change in egg production. None! I am very interested in a chemical analysis of the feed.
we have had chicken about 15 yrs... we recently noticed our hens not laying and they got really skinny. We were using producers Pride for years... we switched feed last week. we are already getting double the eggs in just one week...
@@mattdooley6206 Dumor was also another brand reported. Hundreds, if not thousands of people all saying the same thing. Have seen 4 or 5 different videos on it & people are all reporting dumor & producers pride. Hopefully you’re in the clear in your area, but always stay vigilant.
There is a war going on people!!! A war against, WE THE PEOPLE and they need to stop. They're trying to starve to death, literally. WEF, WHO, USDA, etc. Follow the money!!!
@@iamKristyEscue Dumor is made by Cargill if I remember correctly so if that is the case there is a issue with an ingredient that both manufactures (Cargill and Purina) are using in their feed. Many have corn so could be the first thing I would look at to see if some of these are the cause (aflatoxin, acidosis, mycotoxins, etc). Second guess would be imported ingredient from china, they are known for tainted feed ingredients in the past (baby food, pet food, etc).
I can vouch for this as it happened to me. A fellow chicken keeper told me she was hearing that this was happening to people who fed any Purina brand feed or any feed from Purina subsidiaries. I thought I was safe because I didn’t use any of those brands of feed. Then one day my very young hens completely quit laying so I investigated and discovered my family members had bought a Purina flock block for my chickens without me knowing. I removed those two blocks and my hens started laying again. I hope this helps someone.
My chickens are 9 weeks old and I'm feeding them the Purina start and grow medicated feed. Obviously my girls aren't of laying age but should I get them off of this feed and use something else?
Um yes stop using anything Purina. If they don't want you to have eggs they may sterilize your young chickens so they never lay eggs. This is so obvious that they want you depended on corporation like Gates food and produce. Or what ever their messed up plans. But since they are pushing for your children to be sterilizer by being transgender. Of course they go after your food. Trust in God not your government.
This happened to me and my neighbors chickens. We switched and made our own feed with seeds not pellets and added fruit and veggies as well as table scraps. They are laying again and laying a lot of eggs. BTW I saw another homesteaders message from a friend of his that is Amish. The Amish gentleman said we do not buy commercial feed our chickens get table scraps and free range only and we have no problems. He also said the English (Us) have been trained that our chickens need the feed and we tend to feed too much. I’m guilty of that. Leaving too much in the feeder and then it gets wasted all over the floor. I’m going to be more careful from now on and listen to the Amish man. 😅
Yeah I can remember 40 years ago we fed them in the morning and again in the evening and didn't fill up the feeders for them to waste. We always had plenty of eggs.
My chickens won't eat table scraps! I think they'll eat leftover meat, but that goes to dogs & cats. Most fruit goes to an alpaca. But even when I give the chickens blueberries, strawberries, watermelon, they mostly ignore. Only one is a watermelonholic. They'll eat grapes, but only if I cut them up tiny. Spoiled. :/ They only like Walmart white bread, don't eat that anymore either. Not free range, soil bad, no worms. God knows what they live on because they hardly eat what I put out. They don't even eat the TSC dry grains for 2mths now, only when I soak them. I just realized the wild birds have been eating their feed, so maybe they're not reproducing either. Well, it's all going next wk. I hope I catch the Health Ranger's video.
@@user-gj8ms7jd8v you might want to see if they'd like something like mealworms, maybe they're wanting more protein and if they're free ranged they might prefer the vegetation they find. Put I haven't heard of chickens not wanting scraps, mine used to fight over scraps 😆
Best way to avoid wasted feed is to put it in a cattle mineral lick tub. Chickens go in and scratch around, grains hit the side and fall back in. Saves me a lot of feed over winter now. Every week I use a cat litter tool to pick out droppings, grains fall right through. I also feed grit and oyster shells this way in another tub.
I'm in Australia and for the last 9 months of using Barastock layer pellets I've not had one egg. I tried "25 things that stop chickens laying" that Justin Rhodes did and still nothing. I finally changed to a different brand layer mash. And they were laying within the next week. 🙂
I'm glad you changed feed. I'm finding a lot of chicken YTubers are acting like we are ignorant. I'm glad that everyone decided to speak up. They helped us enormously.
Saw this on Off Grid with Doug and Stacy's channel and I'm glad you're speaking up about it as well, Dutch. Not a Tractor Supply customer myself but for those that are unable to support their own local feed/ farm supply stores, knowing this information is important. Thanks for all you and your beautiful family do for the homesteading community. ✌️
🐔🐔🐔🐔I am a back yard chicken guy with 24 chickens and can tell you this is TRUE! For 4 years I've used TS Feed with great results! 4 months ago I noticed a serious drop in Egg production form my girls! Yes, winter comes and there are normally a slight reduction. "I'm in central AZ, so not too cold". It was really baffling me, went from 12-16 eggs a day down to just 4-6 eggs a day! Then I heard the report on TS Feed, I went to my local feed store and bought PURINA brand and switched feed, eggs came back up to 11-13 eggs daily which is normal! Had one bag of TS Feed Pride brand left and switched BACK when the Purina ran out, two days later, only 4 eggs that day! I can verify that this report IS TRUE! No more Tractor Supply!
@@cherimitchell7973 no, Tractor Supply owns their own formulas for Dumor and Producers Pride and they have Purina manufacture the feed for them because they don’t own a feed mill themselves. “Purina Mills owns all its own feed plants. In addition to manufacturing their own brand line they also mill feed for other companies (such as Tractor Supply's DuMOR brand) as well as doing custom formulations for other large customers.”
My understanding with what they've already been doing to our food, is that it's intentional... Glad farmers stick together and Converse on these downfalls they keep throwing at us!!!! Keep on keeping on!!! God wins!!! God bless our farmers ❤️🇺🇸❤️
That happened to me about 4 months ago. When I switched back to my local feed store feed, my hens started laying again. I never knew there was a problem until I started hearing others having the same issue.
I have 47 hens on my place. All of a sudden they stopped laying...ALL of them! I haven't used TS feed, but bought from a more local feed store in the same town as TS. I switched to a local store in my town and within 2 days they are laying well again.
It happened to us. Our hens all of a sudden stopped laying in October and didn't start again until we changed their feed last week. We've been raising chickens for 13 years, so we know a lot about chickens.
@@user-oq9fl6sn2n she didn’t. This is an obvious lie. All of her hens stopped laying eggs 5 months ago and she is only now considering changing their feed and they miraculously started laying again? This is an example of a social media disinformation group feeding off of each other.
Chickens typically molt in fall and when they do so they stop laying eggs and then when winter hits the light levels go down and they stop laying all together until the length of daylight changes.
I was buying 5 dozen at Walmart for $3.29 just a few months ago and now those same boxes are around $16.00 here in the Midwest . My brother has about 50 chickens and he was bringing us about 5 dozen eggs a week and also supplying other friends and family with eggs and now he is down to having to buy eggs himself . Doesn't sound like a mistake .
Look up water-glassing the eggs. If you're going through that many, putting some aside for troubled times would certainly be to your benefit. Glassing eggs keeps them fresh as the day they were laid, for up to a year. No idea what the science is, but it's what folks used to do before there was electricity and is proven to work by hundreds of years of practice.
WELLLL........good for Doug and Stacey.😉 Many farmers were warned about this happening through the co-ops last year. DON'T GIVE THAT MASH TO YER PIGS!!...........pigs 'll stop laying too!!😂 Congrats to you and Good luck to your Daughter and hope she gives ya lots of Grandkids!!
It happened to me too! I’ve been raising chickens for 15+ years, so I’m not a novice. All of my young hens should’ve been laying like crazy all last summer, but I got ZERO EGGS for months on end while feeding them Dumor layer pellets. I thought I might have an egg eater in the flock, but never found any evidence of it. I finally stopped using the Dumor pellets and my girls started laying like crazy!
I’ve heard this from several chicken people. Think about what ingredients not available from drought, fertilizer and so on makes sense something changed. One gal started feeding her hens goat feed and almost immediately started getting eggs.
Absolutely done on purpose to cause the price of eggs going up. A shortage of things including oil and wheat and just about everything else to go up. I believe the baby formula shortage was done on purpose too. Thank you Mr. Dutch for sharing.
On purpose by the elite 1% want control. Burned factory the process eggs. Same on cattle stock yard killing off cattle. Destory wheat farms. Biden evil want to be president which he's not. Trump I'd CIC = COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF MILITARY
The agenda 2030 goal says we will own nothing and be happy. They know what they’re doing. Another reminder to prepare all you can because it’s only downhill from here
We mainly free range our chickens and have have this for the last 8 years. This past fall two things happened 1. Our new puppy found out she loves the taste of free range chicken and 2. I got pregnant and quite sick (I have 3 other kids 6 and under). I couldn't keep up with my chicken chores. Our Girls suddenly had to be locked up. They completely stopped laying for months. I blamed myself. I blamed trauma from the dog. We were buying feed and really expensive eggs and I lost all of my egg customers! I GAVE AWAY MY WHOLE FLOCK! I could afford to keep them and to buy eggs let alone the puppy frustration. For the first time in 8 years I have no chickens. Thank you tractor supply. You've done me dirty. My husband actually wants to sue them.
Well, I have to say, I believe that it's not only TS but it could have started there. I tried several different places and types, because mine had stopped in August laying. So recently changed to goat feed and Alpaca grains, gmo free from online source..I recently in beginning of February 1 hen started laying and now my others are laying too.
I can say I switched to my local feed store and my girls started laying after 1 1/2-2 months of almost no eggs. I had 26 hens at the time. I lost 4 hens and now been getting an easy 8 eggs daily.
My wife & I buy whole grains in bulk, store in separate bins/containers until ready for mixing. My wife came up with a good protein carb mix (winter or summer mix) doing research on the internet. Our hens lay throughout winter every year we've been raising them (20-40 chickens). We don't light up the henhouses with big lights either only using night lights for them to see at dusk to perch only. I like seeing the actual grains we feed them & not trusting someone else to say on the ingredients what's in the bag, not saying pellets are bad, just our choice, of course. We also mix diatomaceous earth in with the grains for help deworming. Hope this helps.
I have considered mixing my own feed for a while now. I used to be able to sell my fresh eggs for five dollars a dozen and I delivered them to people. But after losing a bunch of hens, I didn’t have enough eggs for family let alone to sell. So having to start off buying five or six different types of feed to mix them up, has been cost prohibitive right now. I am down to four girls after losing the rest of my 16! I had to move the girls a couple years ago and two of them died over the winter because the new metal barn was not warm for them at all. Then this past summer I lost 10 of my hens to some foxes! When I had my full amount of girls, I would get one egg every three or four days through the whole winter from each of the girls. I am sure only having four vs 16 has made a difference. But I have not had one single solitary egg laid by them since December 3rd!!! I am so annoyed by this, because I am currently paying out a few more dollars for Kalmbach chicken feed. Still no eggs. I also have used Farm & Fleet‘s brand as well as Rural King‘s brand throughout this winter. Like I stated, not one darn egg from anyone no matter what feed they are on.😤😤😭😭
We have 30 hens and had the same problem for about 6 months. We switched their feed from the Tractor Supply feed noted above, to a natural black oil sunflower, oats & whole corn mix with a small amount of diatomaceous earth for worming. After about 7 days of feeding this, we were getting about a dozen eggs a day after not getting a single egg in six months!. Bigger, cleaner eggs!
Very useful information to chew on, literally. It's amazing what happens these days, whether on purpose or not, there's always a viable reason for it. There should be independent analysis of the feeds, because you'll never get anyone to fess up to a conspiracy. Love ya'll ❤️
The weather was bad over the weekend, and I nearly ran into Tractor Supply to pick up chicken feed. I am SO glad my husband made the trip to our regular feed store.
I was a manager for them and i wish i could get over my hate for them. After 20 years managing for Borders, it was appalling how people could be treated. I quit one day after a beautiful trail ride when my team was mocked for being loyal to me and also getting the extremely demanding work done. This conpany has totally perfected exploiting real peoole who do love the farm life.
This is true. We buy our feed from a local tractor supply and our chickens had almost stopped with this brand. We switched brands and the egg production has almost tripled. We are used to the decreased production in the winter months but this has been drastic for the past few months.
We have raised laying hens for about 10 years now and have never had this happen even in the winter. We have always used Producer’s Pride “layer pellets” and I noticed a change on the bags of feed going from “layer pellets” to “mini pellets”. 20 hens and we just got 5 eggs this week with nothing over the last 2 months. I will be switching feed tomorrow! SO glad I happened upon this video. Thanks for sharing!
This year was the first time my chickens quit laying, we were lucky to get 1 egg a day from 24 chickens. Thought is was because they just finished molting and then it became very cold. The last 2 weeks they have been back to normal, but our neighbor brought us some chicken feed to repay my husband for plowing, he bought a different brand so I’m going with the feed theory. I think this feed issue was planned! Thanks for the information Dutch.
We had the same problem with CAL Ranch. Added more corn in the morning to eat, then mealworms and black oil sunflower seeds in the afternoon around 3:30 pm. Went from one a day to six!
Exactly same here. Also take a look at your birds, not just the eggs. Are they getting skinny and losing feathers? They're NOT MOLTING. they're poisoned
Thanks for this bro, we have chickens and only 3 have been keeping up with the laying, the other 11 just stopped and I didn't even think it must be due to the feed, I purchased 2 bags of Producers Pride from the local tractor supply as they no longer had the other brand I purchased before, going to be going to Carmine Feed & Fertilizer from now on, because I am supplying friends and family with eggs, mostly due to lots of the older folks not able to keep up with $6 to $8 dollar eggs at the store, almost makes me think they are doing this on purpose to try to stop local communities from living without big brothers products and influence.
Let your chickens continue to free range if possible. If you know any organic farmers try to buy corn and crack it for them. Your chickens will have an almost orange yolk it will be so rich and more tasty. Also I learned from a County Sheep meeting this week that the FDA is not going to let farm stores sell basic medicines or antibiotics (like penicillin, oxytocin) after mid June. This was confirmed by the vet who was guest speaker. She said you'll have to get it all from the vet and the vet will have had to be on the farm at least once in a 12 months period. So bottom line establish a vet relationship. She also reiterated it was out of their control and even they had trouble getting penicillin right after it was announced. Not sure how we can stop more government overreach but here it is again.
Means animals will end up going without needed assistance in a timely manner or at all. Vets that make farm visits are few and far between these days. Going back to the days the only first aid for livestock was liniment, bag balm, gentian violet, coal tar, sugar wraps (still used by some vets) and mustard plasters... maybe some flowers of sulphur if you can find it, oh and don't forget styptic powder, there's your old timey critter first aid kit.
Farmers that raise livestock organically use oil of oregano to treat illnesses that were previously treated with penicillin or other antibiotics. It works. Some farmers add oregano to their feed.
Just found your channel and subbed and liked. This is the second channel I've run across this morning talking about this very thing. And as someone who has a big mountain farm in NM and buys chicken food at Tractor Supply I can absolutely confirm this. I stopped feeding them that Pride chicken food and switched to a different brand and they started laying again. And the feed has almost doubled in price to. They're trying hard to keep us from being able to produce our own food.
Around me in Illinois, every house brand of chicken feed has gone up between two and five dollars. I, myself have tried three different brands, including the so-called premium food by Kalmbach. But I have not had one single egg laid since December 3 buy any chicken! The month before that I was really only seeing one egg or two per week from each hen. So yes, I sincerely believe something is up with the feed. After the way, the governments around the world, treated us with Covid, you can bet your bottom dollar they’re trying to keep people from producing their own food (during lockdown the state of Michigan wouldn’t even let people purchase vegetable seeds!!!) & making it as hard and costly, as they possibly can!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'm spreading the word and depending on farmers like you to get the truth out there. If they are in fact doing something deliberately to affect people's food supply I think that's criminal, whether the law would do anything or not. You don't mess with people's food. Thanks again, appreciate you!
Years ago, we had a few chickens that we turned loose when we couldn't afford feed. They free ranged but also learned to steal food from the dogs. So funny to see them run a German Shepard off the food. The eggs they laid were huge and had great shells.
We were using Producer's Pride. Our girls stopped laying in September. The did not molt. The whole flock is about a year old now. We tried everything to get them to lay. The first of December, I went to our local feed store to check the prices of their feed. Kalmbach 16% cost less so I bought it. Six days later they started laying. The days were not getting longer at the beginning of December. They even laid 10-11 eggs per day during the crazy cold at Christmas when they were locked in the barn for 3-4 days. We do have a single light bulb in the barn because the barn has no windows at all. It's a small barn, not a coop. It's completely dark in there when the doors are shut. Well, except for the little chicken door.
Same. Not a single egg for about 6 weeks between October and December!! Switched from PP to Dumor... And even once they did start laying again... just 1 to 6 eggs per day. Wr have over 20 laying hens. The past 2 days we made a mix of goat feed, rolled oats, and black sunflower seed. Day 1 of this new mixture resulted in 5 eggs. Day 2, today (20 degrees and sleeting all day) also 5 eggs. I'm hopefully in time they'll go back to normal. Sure, production slows in winter but NOT LIKE THIS!!
I remember hearing a few years ago that there was an issue of Cattle Deaths that were being linked to Producer's Pride feed, I think it was mainly in Florida but not sure, so nothing would surprise me.
Happened to me. I usually buy the cheapest feed that is readily available, which happens to be Producers Pride at my current location. My small flock basically stopped laying during the winter, which I assumed was due to the weather. One hen seemed unhealthy a few weeks ago; in an effort to help her get well, I switched to DuMOR and added an electrolyte supplement to their water. Within days, egg production significantly increased and the hen quickly got well. I'm not sure if I'm ready to point the finger at Producers Pride, but results are results.. They're laying better than ever now.
It's unusual that food quality can impede the natural egg production cycle ( in so far as how climate, exercise and sunlight will influence this). It's almost like the food is lacking nutrient triggers or even blocking the normal egg production hormones. This is shocking, and I hope researchers study this to understand why. Is it something missing (malnutrition), or was something contaminated in the recent batches of food?
We have 14 hens and are still getting 9-11 eggs a day in January while using TS Pride feed. We do include extra Black Oil Sunflower seeds and a good scratch daily during the winter for extra protein. The hens are free range on 10 acres so the feed is secondary too bugs and grass which keeps the amount of feed really low.
Hi I'm in semi country area of Melbourne Australia and I have had chickens for years we are just small backyard run and just wanted to share my experience on this as well I've been using golden yolk layer pellets for many years without problems but in the last few months have virtually stop laying Lucy to get one egg in a couple of days on top of that we have just started or summer February and for this to happen at this time of year is extremely rare chickens are 2 years old I have never seen this happen before but after seeing your video I will definitely try changing my feed will let you know how it goes thanks for sharing your information 👍😉
Thank you Dutch for sharing this information. I feed Prouder’s Pride chicken feed & my year old hens have just about quit laying. I’m going to buy from the feed store that I get my horse feed & scratch from.
I Buy producers Pride and My Chickens lay just fine...The days are getting longer and I'm getting almost a Dozen Every day..Length of Day Affects Chickens No matter what you Feed them
@@connielewis604 that is awesome for you, but I did also have the same problem with TS Pride. I live in deep, deep South Texas(4 hrs south of San Antonio) our days don't get much shorter, our production tends to stay the same if not go up a little in winter because is not as hot. I switch brands and like magic a couple of weeks my young hens started laying. I dont know if is conspiracy or not, it was just my experience.
Hmm. Maybe there are good batches and bad ones? Our hens laying decreased dramatically way back in July! Then for about 6 weeks between October and December we got 0 eggs per day each day!!! Not normal!!! Since they started laying again in December we only get between 1 and 6 per day. We have over 20 laying hens. Yesterday we switched to goat feed mixed with black sunflower seed and rolled oats. So far day 1 was 5 eggs and day 2 (today which never got above freezing) also 5 eggs. It isn't the cold!!! We have had a pretty mild winter with many days over 40 or even 50 degrees this winter. We don't use a light or heat source in the coop.
From another homesteader in Oklahoma with free-range chickens Thank You for this info cuz I definitely noticed the difference and yeah they make up excuses for their Greed but Thank God that Jesus is Coming Sooner than Later Amen
Dutch, The jump in egg prices in the stores as I have read.. is that there have been huge egg layer loses, mysteriously due to several fires at commercial hen houses, also multiple millions of chickens lost due to some kind of virus where those chickens had to be destroyed. So less chickens laying eggs higher cost in the stores!!
In Iowa, many hatcheries got hit hard by the bird flu, all their stock destroyed, they took what eggs they had on hand filled some if the immediate orders and hatched the rest out to replenish their own breeding stock, guess what, when those hens were about to start laying again and they got hit again by the bird flu and lost thousands of birds. Many of them had rare/endangered breeds too yet. The midwest state (texas up to North Dakota over to Minnesota and all the way down south is a major migratory bird route that is used to go north in spring and south in fall, Bird flu is carried mostly by waterfowl is what we were told here and how to protect our back yard flocks (impossible for me to do) but I have seen it all around but we have not been affected at all yet nor have a couple of neighbors who also have chickens. Most do not realize that chickens molt (shed their old feathers and replace with new) every year, when they molt they stop laying also. So I wonder how many are confusing an issue with a feed vrs not realizing their chickens are molting (one here blew all her feathers at once in Dec, the other two did it slowly over a 2 month period - yep no eggs for 3 months).
The fentanol appadenmic seems to be hitting everywhere. People to feed stores to animals to grocery stores...where does it end? Crazy people...take them out.
My neighbor just texted me yesterday asking if my chickens are laying. I told her they are laying close to a dozen a day. She told me that her chicken stopped laying and she had to buy store eggs. I let her know that the feed from Tractor Supply has been making chickens stop laying. She said she will be going to our local feed bin for their mix because that's where I told her I go and we don't have a problem. Thing is we were using Tractor sSupply feed until they started raising the price and we found our local feed store sells theirs cheaper.
When I was snotty nose brat we purchased laying mash at the local feed mill as well as grit and oyster shells. I love every minute that was spent on a forty acre farm.🇺🇸🐻
Glad you're reporting this. Just sent a home made food recipe to my son and daughter in law for their chickens. Just hoping whatever is in the particular feed isn't a permanent sterilization.
Since the days are becoming longer my chickens are beginning to lay more eggs. I was mixing corn, oats, black oil sunflower seeds, and commercial Purina feed, equal parts. The chickens were picking out everything else and leaving the commercial feed. Doug & Stacy had a video the other day. A woman did a buncha investigating & found that the largest supplier of eggs (that hasn't burned up), is now in partnership with Purina aka nestle, which is the largest supplier of animal feeds. Conspiracy???
Thanks for explaining all this. Our egg prices are up to $8.99 a dozen. We quit buying from the stores. We found farmers who wanted to give us better deals.
I didn't even realize at first that was the difference....I cant remember why I started buying from Tractor supply instead of my local feed store...but for MONTHS I had NO EGGS...not one egg and my flock has at least 25 hens. Then I started back with the feed from my local feed store and I am overrun with eggs. Hallelujah!
I heard about this through Doug and Stacys channel. My chickens haven't laid eggs since October (around when I bought more feed from Tractor supply). I haven't had one single egg since October! I wasn't sure why until I seen their videos. I stopped ALL tractor supply feed and within 48 hours I finally got an egg!!
I have never once fed my girls tractor supply because it’s too far away. I have fed Rural King‘s house brand, Farm and Fleet’s house brand, and for the last two months I have fed Kalmbach feeds. I have not had a single egg since December 3/2022. So I would like to know exactly what is going on with my girls…🤷🏻♀️
I'm glad I saw this and makes total sense! My chickens haven't laid a single egg in months and this explains it I'm changing feed to see what happens. Like he said I normally get and eggs here or there but none is weird. Thanks for this video!
Yup, happened to me. Mine stopped completely laying in October, I was feeding tractor supply feed. I finally took advice and switched to an all grain feed. Exactly one week later started getting eggs. 3 weeks in and I'm run over with eggs.
I’ve been thinking about this….have been blown away with all the (coincidental) issues I’ve been experiencing and noticing…had my flock up to 40 hens and 6 roosters…not only did my whole flock stop laying completely…even my younger chickens who always lay aren’t doing well..switched food and my flock of 20 is gaining weight as well as growing better and they are grown!! And also they are laying again…within a week of changing their diet….I have been noticing that they weren’t really healthy and they didn’t lay!! But now I’m blown away at this reality of this!! Crazy times!!! Going to go local and stay local….I can’t believe….but do that this is happening…my budget is already tapped out…it’s scary to think that people who make this feed aren’t getting sued!! I guess we know we can’t afford it!! Lol my chickens are under attack!!😢
This has crossed my mind in the last few months. I went from getting an egg a day from 12 chickens to only getting about five eggs a day before they started molting and before the days shortened. I still chopped it up to being just that time of year and maybe my chickens were getting old.
Dutch, I read approximately 57 million birds have been killed off because of the Avian bird flu. But it also said that's less than 10% of layers. So if that's only 10% of them, then why do we have a egg shortage?? I don't get it ! Love seeing the girls so young💕 How's PEARL doing ? Ok I hope. GODS Blessings on your Family & Farm Love 🌻 from NC 💜
My hens stopped laying in October. I saw a TH-cam video about the TS feed and switched them to a diff brand. They’ve been laying like crazy the past three weeks, since the switch.
We have been noticing this for at least the last 5 years. We had been using Dumor 5 years ago (Dumor and Producers Pride are made by Purina, which I recently heard Bill Gates has his hands into) our hens stopped laying during peak laying season. No eggs. Asked around in our 4H circles, tried those friend's suggestions, no luck. The feed store was out of Dumor so we switched feed simply due to what was in stock and the hens 'magically' started laying again. Heard buzz at the feed store from other shoppers at the time that they had the same problem, when we asked what feed they used, it was Dumor. We mostly have been using Producers Pride since with no problems. We actually use PP now, but mix in kitchen scraps, free range, various seeds, game bird (we also have ducks, guineas and quail). So our chickens are still laying what we would consider normal for winter...
This is why deregulating is bad if you don't have people inspecting these companies they will just give CEOs profit and don't care if they are mixing contaminated feed! I'm more inclined to think that the chemicals sprayed on the plants or a fungal problem like horses who can actually abort by being fed contaminated feed!
This is true about the feed. I noticed this last summer my chickens didn't lay eggs and I am here in Texas. In the summer my chickens stopped laying and I was giving them the Producers Pride feed from Tractor Supply! The 40 lb bag is easier to carry than the 50 lb bag. I couldn't figure out why they weren't laying. I came up with all kinds of excuses and NEVER once thought it was the feed. I am in south Texas so it doesn't get real cold for long. My egg producing has diminished by far. I will now change my feed. Thanks.
My mom has 47 hens and has only gotten 7 eggs in the last 2 1/2 months. The problem is the only feed store that is close is tractor supply. She is retired and has very minimal income and so she depends on the eggs to sell for a small income. This video was very informative. I'm hoping that i can find a DIY food mix that i can show her how to make
This was my experience and it had nothing to do with winter molting. I got my first six hens about two-and-a-half years ago. I started off feeding a brand from Walmart. Once they started laying, I was getting 4-6 eggs a day. Mind you, two of my hens are silky's which only lay 2-4 eggs a week. Over time, it became increasingly difficult to get what I was getting from Walmart because they were out of stock more often than not and finally settled on producers pride at TSC, sometimes DuMor. I made that switch early spring last year. For the rest of spring, the entirety of Summer, and moving into fall, I was only getting 1-3 eggs a day. At this point I had added two more hens so, now I have 8. Early fall, TSC was out of both of the brand's I had been buying, Producers Pride and, occasionally, DuMor so, I paid a little more for an organic brand, the name of which I don't recall at the moment. Literally within just a couple of days I went from getting 1-3 eggs a day to 5-8 a day and have remained consistent with that throughout fall and winter, even in temperatures below freezing.
The reason that your production spiked was the food. Layer need more than just that 16% pellets. They need a higher ratio of nutrition. When you took them to a higher grain amount they increased production. The pellet is a base feed, it's not the only source feed. If that sac of 16% is the only thing people are using, then 🙄 wow... yeah. There's the conspiracies right there. That's meant to be a base for their dietary needs. It's not the only feed they are to get. Changing the base feed formulary shouldn't effect production if they are getting a well balanced diet.
Mine stopped laying since November, saw Doug and Stacy and went for seed/grain today. I noticed the smell was off because I normally use a more expensive brand but chose to switch to TC in October because they were $12.99 a bag vs my $27. Usually they are $16.99. Learning the lesson.
I think its a coincidence because we have just turned the corner of increasing daylight which cause chickens to produce eggs more regular. Mine have always slowed down in the winter months so much so weeks would go by and not seeing one egg. This past winter was another slow egg winter. There have been days I only got one or two eggs and even no eggs. (over 15 hens) Ive been doing this for years and it has always been the same during this time of year. I dont use heat lamps or use supplemental lighting. I think they need a winter rest. Things have picked up in the last week or so now Im getting between 3-5 eggs a day now. Im not using the Tractor supply feed. Im using another brand. I have used the TSC pride brand 16-22% and havent seen any difference when Ive used it. I dont use it now because I can get another brand cheaper and bigger 50lb bag over the 40lb bags at TSC. I also mix my feed with cracked corn and or some scratch and they get table scraps.
@@matthewvalentine3549 Please do some research using reliable sources and communities, heat lamps are absolutely not needed and more often very dangerous for chickens. They have a high natural body heat and all they need to be fine is a dry, wind-sheltered location and good enough feed to maintain that body temp. You can test this for yourself in a way (not exact, but you'll get the idea). Eat a hot meal and go outside on a cold day. Then eat a cold less filling meal and go outside and stand next to a space heater. Option one will have you feeling much warmer longer guaranteed. Option two may warm part of you, but assuming you are wearing a coat (like having feathers) much of that surface heat will not reach your body. Please don't use the heat lamps and if you are in an extreme situation, go to a safer alternative like a warming pad (not needed even in -30 temps where even my bare-bottom hens have been fine).
@@Beachbear2012 Yes it could be . Ive been doing chickens over a decade there are a lot of factors that go into play when it comes to egg layers. For one, Stress factors such as crowding, too many roosters, time of the year, age of the chickens, molting etc... Mine have stopped laying for several months at one time but I attributed it to many factors especially during the winter months. Temperature fluctuations. I dont give mine any supplemental lighting or heat. Mine usually slow down in the winter months. Ive had hatchlings in mid summer and I dont expect them to start laying in the winter months although they have become of age. Also if they are in molt or coming out of molt during the winter months I cant expect them to lay right away. Too many roosters will also stress the hens and there will be fewer egg laying because of the stress. I dont provide any supplemental lighting or heat which have been proven to help egg laying. I think they should be given a rest period. I hear people say their chickens stop laying after so many years but mine continue to lay on a regular especially through spring and fall no matter their age. Like I said the only slow down I experience is the winter months. Through the spring and fall they are allowed to free forage from time to time. In the winter time there are less bugs for them to eat. Ive used several different feed manufactures from local to TSC pride (Purina). All with basically the same result. Over feeding also may play a part in less egg laying. Most people overfeed their chickens which cause them to put on a lot of fat which will cause their chickens to have all sort of issues. My chickens get fed 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of feed per day. They arent fat but they are healthy. They also get table scraps. Sometimes I think we expect too much from our hens and would like them to produce all the time like commercial producers.
Well, Dutch, you made me cry. That precious clip of the girls!!! My boys will soon be 27 and 25 and my BabyGirl is almost 21!! It flies by so quickly. I know that's exactly why you started this channel and it's wonderful to be able to look back at those special moments. The beautiful memories you are creating for your girls are recorded for posterity and you will never regret that. I haven't noticed any changes in my hen's laying and I generally use Producer's Pride but I also add a lot of veggies and other "treats" like black soldier fly larvae and grubs, etc.. We can't really free-range our girls due to predators and a really busy highway, but we try to give them the kind of variety they love. I am looking forward to seeing the results of some of the studies being done on the P.P. food. Like you, nothing surprises me anymore. You guys take care and God bless ❣️ LesaGail< in SC
I'm glad you enjoyed the clip Lesa! They grow up way too fast! We've enjoyed looking back at this cute clip of the girls many times over the last 10 years 😊
I use a different brand Called Blue Seal, but having the typical winter slow down. They quit for a while during their molting, but are back to winter laying amounts. I don't use artificial light and chose hens known to lay over winter since I live in the northeast. Snow on ground now, so no free ranging, but I do throw in mixed greens, whole kernal corn (to help keep their body heat during the winter) and mealworm treats with their grain scratch. Because they're confined to the coop and run during snow, I give them crumble to keep them busy scratching so they don't get bored. When we have a melt and grass shows I let them out to forage.
I started using the TS pride back in Jul-Aug, by end of Aug- first of September my hens stopped laying. I changed their food 2 weeks ago and I am getting eggs everyday now.
Our recent feed is from Farm And Fleet, and 2 weeks ago while we were out of town that is all our chickens got fed for 9 days. Their egg production went from 8-10 per day to 1 per week. It's slowly improving (3 yesterday) due (I believe) to all the kitchen scraps we give them daily. Consolidation of food producers (human and animal) is a very bad idea. Almost as bad as consolidated medicine or media. Mistakes or malevolence hit harder and wider. I hope we wake enough people up to the dangers so we can start to fix the mess our government is allowing.
FYI: I have never bought Producers Pride at Tractor Supply (TS). What I was feeding my hens from TS, starting in late Spring of 2022 was a combo of Dumor Non GMO pellets and Purina or Natures Best Organic Chicken Scratch one month and the next month an Organic pellet w the scratch listed above. My egg production diminished so much that I had to buy my first dozen eggs in late summer 2022, I thought it was the heatwave in TX, but I had not bought eggs since 2011 and it is always hot here in the summer. Mid Jan 2023, lost 2 hens w symptoms of swollen bellies while getting 2-3 eggs/day with a flock of 15 hens. Then last week I hear about this issue w TS, I switched feed and w/in 5 days my girls are producing again. So, it is NOT just Producers Pride, TS has permanently lost me as a customer. I also learned that our benevolent 'friends' at Blackrock are owners of >10% shares of TS. Coincidence? Think Not!
Me too. We never bought Producer's pride, we got the Dumor and organic scratch, and for the first time in 10 years my chickens stopped. I had to buy eggs. Something is up though.
I really enjoyed your post today. You seem so busy every day. With your animals and building your home and now the new property I often wonder if you ever just need to have a chill out day and just relax. Your girls are so lucky to live this way. They have experience and knowledge that most kids today will never have. Keep up the great videos coming
Our chickens stopped laying and were only being fed Purina. We switched to Producers Pride about 4 months ago and they started laying 👍HOWEVER..... we are now on our 10-12 bag of Pride and the laying has slowed down considerably.
I know you have a freeze dryer - freeze dry your extra eggs. I did this last summer and am so thankful I did. I use the eggs for every that I would an egg in the shell with the exception of hard boiled or over easy. 2 tablespoons of dried egg and 2 tablespoons of water equals one egg.
I bought my feed from tractor supply and now that you mention it for the past month they have not layed a single egg. I just figured it was because of the weather I live in Augusta Georgia the weather hasn’t been that bad but this is my first time raising chickens so I figured it was normal.
I bought 8 bags at TSC 2 weeks ago and my 20 birds are laying 8-10 per day, no change at all. Before that I'd bought 8 bags at Runnings. I have always bought these discount feeds as it is the best I can do economically, and I supplement with kitchen scraps and BOSS and cracked corn. My routine hasn't changed in years and neither has my egg production when looked at as a weekly average. Seems like less of a problem when considering all users of this feed across the country, maybe just some bad batches or some bad experiences.
@@mrsdutch8994 well mine had just started laying about September and October so they are not old chickens that’s not the problem. They were laying really good then I got them ts feed and now nothing
We have always used it and normally ours lay all the time in the winter (we don't generally get lower the 30 at night) and even in the summer (up to 120°+) but the last few months they haven't been laying like at all. So I'm experimenting bought Walmart this time for a couple months to see if it's that.
How interesting, we’re in the UK 🇬🇧 and we had the SAME issue. Along with friends who keep chickens. A couple of My chickens began to get sickly during the time they stopped laying eggs. So I stopped giving my chickens the layers pellets that they were on and gave them grains,sunflower seeds, lentils, mealworms, corn while I looked for another brand for pellets. And would you believe it, my hens started laying again within a 2 days during the coldest snap we had in the UK for a long time (mid December 2022) -6 degrees Celsius (21.2 degrees fahrenheit) lots of snow on the ground too! I did the switch before even knowing there was something wrong with the feed. Didn’t realise that everyone was experiencing the same. I’m suspicious of certain things since the last 2 years has come and gone.
Stacy on OFF GRID with DOUG & STACY, said the Amish raise pullets in the spring, they will be old enough to start laying come fall. They will lay the first winter, then get in their normal cycle afterwards. Sounds like a plan, either eat the older ones, or sell them off each fall...
The price of eggs has really gone up. I went to a supermarket that only had large eggs. I just didn't by eggs at all. Hopefully next time I can find the eggs I usually buy from a local farmer. Hopefully the supply store will look into that chicken feed. Thank you. 🙂
@@codyrussow170 bill gates became the largest farmland owner in the United States recently and now we are having controlled shortages of basic products. The free market is dead. You have no idea what you are talking about leave that nice lady alone
Mine quit laying. I added the new pullets and dumped in the remaining chic feed. Suddenly, the old hens started laying. Once that feed was up, I started with the same feed I have been using, and the eggs stopped. This was July and August, so it wasn't delayed egg laying from winter sun.
One other thing I do is any meat scraps and fat that I trim, I feed it to my hens and they go wild for it and it's good for them. I researched whether it was safe to feed it to them first though. Last week we had a bone in ham for dinner. After I trimmed what we wanted from the bone I gave it to my hens. I don't think I've ever seen a bone picked so clean. So there's lots you can do to supplement your chickens feed.
Doug and Stacey shared a video of a woman who did her homework on this and now we know how and why it was deliberately done - a huge corporation trying to buy out everyone being biggest egg producers and bought out feed company - conflict of interest. Changes in the feed while they need to sell more of their own eggs
That is EXACTLY what happened to my small flock of 14 two year old hens! I feed the 16% Producers Pride mini pellet exclusively as I was getting it for $10.99/bag, up from $7.99/bag 18 months ago. Once fall hit the eggs slowed down somewhat as several were molting. Finally around the middle of November they quit!! I had to buy eggs right when the eggs went to over $4/doz at Walmart. Anyway, I thought maybe something with more protein might jump start the hens so I went to whatever I could get that was 18, 20 and 22% protein. Within five days, right after Christmas I suddenly had three eggs in the layer boxes. Had not seen an egg in over six weeks. I have had chickens since the mid aughts, ‘05 or so and it had never been this bad ever in the winter. I’ve been getting back to layer pellets as it has more calcium as opposed to 20% flock fixer or 22% meat bird crumbles but never again Producers Pride. I’m now getting 6 to 10 eggs a day and am selling eggs again. It’s true people! I feed cheap fed long enough, the chickens deserve a bit better.
Aw man, I wish I could get it for $10.99 still! Here it's about $14.99 now used to be $10 ish when I got my first chickens 2018. I actually haven't been using it for the last six months, though my birds preferred it ( smaller pellets, easier to eat) , because I got a good deal on CAL ranch brand pellets from a grand opening last June. I am running out though, so now I have to decide what to do for food. I really wish I could get Henhouse reserve from Kalmbach around here, that was excellent feed. it would get pricey for my 57 chickens though... Many of mine are a bit over two years old, so I am not expecting them to be laying as much as the past years.
Not just Tractor Supply.... We have a local place for our Feed, and had the same issues. We shifted over to corn, oat and barley (Home Made) and fresh Vegetable (Scraps)... and BOOM... eggs.... Something is most certainly going on with mass produced feed. Thanks for the Video! Good Stuff!!!
This is so timely, one of my hens started laying again recently but then stopped after a week on the newest feed bag (others lasted the last 3 months) I recently decided to add layer feed as an ingredient in worm chow for my worm farm. I was literally a day or 2 away from trying this. I wouldnt want my worms to stop laying chicken eggs. But seriously, i dont think i want to introduce this feed into my worm bin. So timely!
I think there is more to it. I use Producers pride scratch and Dumor crumbles. I had an immediate stop of eggs in October. I have around 30 chickens. They ALL stopped what seemed over night. I figured they had a meeting and decided to molt together. No biggie winter is coming. But now its Tech feb and I get maybe 1- 3 eggs a day, which started about 2 weeks ago. Needless to say I will be changing my feed this week. Something is defiantly not right. Have been a chicken raiser for over 20 years. Im not new to this rodeo.
You do usually get less eggs in the winter but it doesn’t completely stop all together. The first winter my hens laid all winter because they didn’t molt, they were 9 months at the start of winter. But the second year when they molted in the fall they did slow down but we still got eggs.
I have had chickens since 2012 and have always bought from TSC to supplement the free range feeding. I have not and still have no issues with egg laying. I switch out my egg layers every 24 months after they start laying the first egg. Again never and still not an issue; very consistent for 13 years now.
For me started early last year. Had my hens on dumar producers pride all last year, I had only 2 dozen eggs at best all year from 4 hens. Couldn't figure it out why., now i know, had to switch to full organic, will stay with this feed. Thank you for sharing this. I agree with Doug and Stacy, might be what they are putting in it versus not.
From what I am gathering it's not what was or is left out it's something they added that stops the production so fast......just something to think about ✌️
So they could raise the prices in the stores? A lot of city folks were even getting their eggs from farmers, and when farmers don't have enough even for their own family let alone selling whatever they don't need , they waited a bit. Then people started figuring out what was going on. ?? Our township wanted to even stop people from having hens. Already can't have roosters. But folks nipped that in the bud! I hope Pearl is getting better! 🙏🙏❤️❤️. Take care and God bless always
Have the feed tested, period .
Dumour, Producers Pride are both manufactured by Purina Feeds. Why would they do as you're saying? Doesn't make sense at all.
I get my feed from farm and fleet, tractor supply is 45min away. My chickens are lying really good for winter. 🐓♥️😊
I bet new baby chicks wont be as cheep as they were.
@Lana K. from New Mexico hope enough of folks in your area will band together and put a stop to municipalities
Secretly voting to take rights away from people to have their own chickens for eggs and meat chickens.
Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, is getting ready to do an analysis of the TS feed to see if there is anything in there that is causing hens to stop laying. If anyone can find out, he can. He is a food scientist with a certified facility.
I don't trust him.
When he compared dog food to the clots found in vaccinated cadavers I unsubscribed.
That experiment was a scientific joke.
He is a journalist/blogger playing scientist. He has no scientific background, nor a degree in any of the sciences.
He should hire an actual lab. If he does not use gas chromatography and breaks out ph litmus sticks ... run
I just listened to Mike Adams AKA The Health Ranger and he said that he will find out what is going on with the feed if it was intentional or if it might be caused by the length of time that it takes for the ingredients to be shipped to the manufacturer or possibly how it is being stored ( moisture, mold) he is releasing the report no matter if it is in favor of TSC or not .
@timothyandsarahbreedlove2172 he will be going up against Purina then. Since they're connected.
I quit with any Purina products years ago. We used to feed several of their horse feeds. Horses had so many issues 1 year, I called and spent 2 hours on the phone with 1 of their so called specialists. In the end, they tried to blame my hay source must live far away from where the horses are kept,lol! Like it matters where good hay is grown 😆
She gave up when I let her know ours comes from our next door neighbor and is tested. Horses wormed and fecal done and only thing that helped? Changing off Purina feed!
Sorry, but he is what I call The Wallet Ranger. I don’t trust him. Would you trust chicken feed analysis to a guy who was selling $10,000 Ebola end of the world suits? He’s no scientist. His credentials are slim meaning no bona fide degrees.
Glad to hear that. I use Dumor. This winter eggs production dropped. Switched to n entirely different brand from a local feed store. No change in egg production. None! I am very interested in a chemical analysis of the feed.
we have had chicken about 15 yrs... we recently noticed our hens not laying and they got really skinny. We were using producers Pride for years... we switched feed last week. we are already getting double the eggs in just one week...
What brand you are using now?
Yes, what brand?
@@mattdooley6206 Dumor was also another brand reported. Hundreds, if not thousands of people all saying the same thing. Have seen 4 or 5 different videos on it & people are all reporting dumor & producers pride. Hopefully you’re in the clear in your area, but always stay vigilant.
There is a war going on people!!! A war against, WE THE PEOPLE and they need to stop. They're trying to starve to death, literally. WEF, WHO, USDA, etc. Follow the money!!!
@@iamKristyEscue Dumor is made by Cargill if I remember correctly so if that is the case there is a issue with an ingredient that both manufactures (Cargill and Purina) are using in their feed. Many have corn so could be the first thing I would look at to see if some of these are the cause (aflatoxin, acidosis, mycotoxins, etc). Second guess would be imported ingredient from china, they are known for tainted feed ingredients in the past (baby food, pet food, etc).
I can vouch for this as it happened to me. A fellow chicken keeper told me she was hearing that this was happening to people who fed any Purina brand feed or any feed from Purina subsidiaries. I thought I was safe because I didn’t use any of those brands of feed. Then one day my very young hens completely quit laying so I investigated and discovered my family members had bought a Purina flock block for my chickens without me knowing. I removed those two blocks and my hens started laying again. I hope this helps someone.
I have also heard it's Purina and any of their subsidiaries.
My chickens are 9 weeks old and I'm feeding them the Purina start and grow medicated feed. Obviously my girls aren't of laying age but should I get them off of this feed and use something else?
@@Gibjee13 likely should just in case.
Um yes stop using anything Purina. If they don't want you to have eggs they may sterilize your young chickens so they never lay eggs. This is so obvious that they want you depended on corporation like Gates food and produce. Or what ever their messed up plans. But since they are pushing for your children to be sterilizer by being transgender. Of course they go after your food. Trust in God not your government.
@@Gibjee13 I would myself. We know their dog food is garbage
This happened to me and my neighbors chickens. We switched and made our own feed with seeds not pellets and added fruit and veggies as well as table scraps. They are laying again and laying a lot of eggs. BTW I saw another homesteaders message from a friend of his that is Amish. The Amish gentleman said we do not buy commercial feed our chickens get table scraps and free range only and we have no problems. He also said the English (Us) have been trained that our chickens need the feed and we tend to feed too much. I’m guilty of that. Leaving too much in the feeder and then it gets wasted all over the floor. I’m going to be more careful from now on and listen to the Amish man. 😅
Yeah I can remember 40 years ago we fed them in the morning and again in the evening and didn't fill up the feeders for them to waste. We always had plenty of eggs.
My chickens won't eat table scraps! I think they'll eat leftover meat, but that goes to dogs & cats. Most fruit goes to an alpaca. But even when I give the chickens blueberries, strawberries, watermelon, they mostly ignore. Only one is a watermelonholic. They'll eat grapes, but only if I cut them up tiny. Spoiled. :/ They only like Walmart white bread, don't eat that anymore either. Not free range, soil bad, no worms. God knows what they live on because they hardly eat what I put out. They don't even eat the TSC dry grains for 2mths now, only when I soak them. I just realized the wild birds have been eating their feed, so maybe they're not reproducing either. Well, it's all going next wk. I hope I catch the Health Ranger's video.
@@user-gj8ms7jd8v you might want to see if they'd like something like mealworms, maybe they're wanting more protein and if they're free ranged they might prefer the vegetation they find. Put I haven't heard of chickens not wanting scraps, mine used to fight over scraps 😆
Best way to avoid wasted feed is to put it in a cattle mineral lick tub. Chickens go in and scratch around, grains hit the side and fall back in. Saves me a lot of feed over winter now. Every week I use a cat litter tool to pick out droppings, grains fall right through. I also feed grit and oyster shells this way in another tub.
I had chickens in Iowa 200 and never bought feed. I didn't know anyone did... LOL
I'm in Australia and for the last 9 months of using Barastock layer pellets I've not had one egg. I tried "25 things that stop chickens laying" that Justin Rhodes did and still nothing. I finally changed to a different brand layer mash. And they were laying within the next week. 🙂
I'm glad you changed feed. I'm finding a lot of chicken YTubers are acting like we are ignorant. I'm glad that everyone decided to speak up. They helped us enormously.
It's intended. Controlling feed and you will control the people it's WEF plan to reduce the population.
I hadn't gotten eggs since August, recently changed my feed to goat feed, and added split peas and lentils and finally have started getting eggs
Wow, I didn't realize it was all over. Thought it was just the state's. Thank you for your input
It took awhile after changing to goat feed to finally get eggs again...
Saw this on Off Grid with Doug and Stacy's channel and I'm glad you're speaking up about it as well, Dutch.
Not a Tractor Supply customer myself but for those that are unable to support their own local feed/ farm supply stores, knowing this information is important.
Thanks for all you and your beautiful family do for the homesteading community. ✌️
our local feed mill sold the property. I feed that brand and mine are laying.
Same here, I saw his video yesterday
Sadly my local feed mill has Purina as the base.
China supply not tractor supply. CEOs are WEF Globalists depopulation
🐔🐔🐔🐔I am a back yard chicken guy with 24 chickens and can tell you this is TRUE! For 4 years I've used TS Feed with great results! 4 months ago I noticed a serious drop in Egg production form my girls! Yes, winter comes and there are normally a slight reduction. "I'm in central AZ, so not too cold". It was really baffling me, went from 12-16 eggs a day down to just 4-6 eggs a day! Then I heard the report on TS Feed, I went to my local feed store and bought PURINA brand and switched feed, eggs came back up to 11-13 eggs daily which is normal! Had one bag of TS Feed Pride brand left and switched BACK when the Purina ran out, two days later, only 4 eggs that day! I can verify that this report IS TRUE! No more Tractor Supply!
Producers Pride and Dumor are both Purina products, as well as some feeds under the Nutrena name.
@@cherimitchell7973 no, Tractor Supply owns their own formulas for Dumor and Producers Pride and they have Purina manufacture the feed for them because they don’t own a feed mill themselves. “Purina Mills owns all its own feed plants. In addition to manufacturing their own brand line they also mill feed for other companies (such as Tractor Supply's DuMOR brand) as well as doing custom formulations for other large customers.”
@@mattdooley6206 what is chicken mash? Where do you buy it?
@@mattdooley6206 who is the manufacturer please?
Happened to us as well. Switched back to nature wise a mo th ago and still no eggs..
My understanding with what they've already been doing to our food, is that it's intentional... Glad farmers stick together and Converse on these downfalls they keep throwing at us!!!! Keep on keeping on!!! God wins!!! God bless our farmers
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Amen! Yep it's just the devil attacking
That happened to me about 4 months ago. When I switched back to my local feed store feed, my hens started laying again. I never knew there was a problem until I started hearing others having the same issue.
I have 47 hens on my place. All of a sudden they stopped laying...ALL of them! I haven't used TS feed, but bought from a more local feed store in the same town as TS. I switched to a local store in my town and within 2 days they are laying well again.
I'm started laying again too
@@rrwl6696 that settles that in my mind! Now for Rover #3 and his untimely death from made in China dog food.
Doug and Stacy reporting this too. Everyone that’s raising chickens and has this information needs to make sure to share.
Doug is a fear monger Now
It happened to us. Our hens all of a sudden stopped laying in October and didn't start again until we changed their feed last week. We've been raising chickens for 13 years, so we know a lot about chickens.
what did you change their feed to?
@@user-oq9fl6sn2n she didn’t. This is an obvious lie. All of her hens stopped laying eggs 5 months ago and she is only now considering changing their feed and they miraculously started laying again? This is an example of a social media disinformation group feeding off of each other.
@@user-oq9fl6sn2n Luckily we have a local feed store that we were able to find and we are using their brand now. I don't think it's sold everywhere.
Thanks for speaking. Experienced chicken owners know the difference and we appreciate your experience.
Chickens typically molt in fall and when they do so they stop laying eggs and then when winter hits the light levels go down and they stop laying all together until the length of daylight changes.
I was buying 5 dozen at Walmart for $3.29 just a few months ago and now those same boxes are around $16.00 here in the Midwest . My brother has about 50 chickens and he was bringing us about 5 dozen eggs a week and also supplying other friends and family with eggs and now he is down to having to buy eggs himself . Doesn't sound like a mistake .
Here in Modesto Ca , 60 eggs $22 @ Walmart neighborhood store, one time in Dec it was $27 !
$32 here in Colo!
@@Oboy806 😱
$32 last week in Red Bluff, Ca.
Down to $27 yesterday.
Look up water-glassing the eggs. If you're going through that many, putting some aside for troubled times would certainly be to your benefit. Glassing eggs keeps them fresh as the day they were laid, for up to a year. No idea what the science is, but it's what folks used to do before there was electricity and is proven to work by hundreds of years of practice.
Off grid with Doug and Stacy is the first to break the story to our family, just found your channel tonight. Just got home from my daughter's wedding.
Congratulations! ❤
Congratulations!❤
@@davidhopkins1752 Woah. Bite your tongue mate. They are the real deal.
@@Rizik1986 ROFL!!
WELLLL........good for Doug and Stacey.😉 Many farmers were warned about this happening through the co-ops last year.
DON'T GIVE THAT MASH TO YER PIGS!!...........pigs 'll stop laying too!!😂
Congrats to you and Good luck to your Daughter and hope she gives ya lots of Grandkids!!
It happened to me too! I’ve been raising chickens for 15+ years, so I’m not a novice. All of my young hens should’ve been laying like crazy all last summer, but I got ZERO EGGS for months on end while feeding them Dumor layer pellets. I thought I might have an egg eater in the flock, but never found any evidence of it. I finally stopped using the Dumor pellets and my girls started laying like crazy!
I’ve heard this from several chicken people. Think about what ingredients not available from drought, fertilizer and so on makes sense something changed. One gal started feeding her hens goat feed and almost immediately started getting eggs.
Absolutely done on purpose to cause the price of eggs going up. A shortage of things including oil and wheat and just about everything else to go up. I believe the baby formula shortage was done on purpose too.
Thank you Mr. Dutch for sharing.
Yep
100% correct!
On purpose by the elite 1% want control. Burned factory the process eggs. Same on cattle stock yard killing off cattle. Destory wheat farms. Biden evil want to be president which he's not. Trump I'd CIC = COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF MILITARY
The agenda 2030 goal says we will own nothing and be happy. They know what they’re doing. Another reminder to prepare all you can because it’s only downhill from here
@Tmm176
Well man cant stop what is coming. GOD wins and God way is coming
We mainly free range our chickens and have have this for the last 8 years. This past fall two things happened 1. Our new puppy found out she loves the taste of free range chicken and 2. I got pregnant and quite sick (I have 3 other kids 6 and under). I couldn't keep up with my chicken chores. Our Girls suddenly had to be locked up. They completely stopped laying for months. I blamed myself. I blamed trauma from the dog. We were buying feed and really expensive eggs and I lost all of my egg customers! I GAVE AWAY MY WHOLE FLOCK! I could afford to keep them and to buy eggs let alone the puppy frustration. For the first time in 8 years I have no chickens. Thank you tractor supply. You've done me dirty. My husband actually wants to sue them.
Well, I have to say, I believe that it's not only TS but it could have started there. I tried several different places and types, because mine had stopped in August laying. So recently changed to goat feed and Alpaca grains, gmo free from online source..I recently in beginning of February 1 hen started laying and now my others are laying too.
I can say I switched to my local feed store and my girls started laying after 1 1/2-2 months of almost no eggs. I had 26 hens at the time. I lost 4 hens and now been getting an easy 8 eggs daily.
Good for you supporting your local feed store.
My wife & I buy whole grains in bulk, store in separate bins/containers until ready for mixing. My wife came up with a good protein carb mix (winter or summer mix) doing research on the internet. Our hens lay throughout winter every year we've been raising them (20-40 chickens). We don't light up the henhouses with big lights either only using night lights for them to see at dusk to perch only. I like seeing the actual grains we feed them & not trusting someone else to say on the ingredients what's in the bag, not saying pellets are bad, just our choice, of course. We also mix diatomaceous earth in with the grains for help deworming. Hope this helps.
We live in upper Michigan, so it's pretty cold here, too.
Could you share your recipe ? I like that idea . I used to think Purina was trust worthy ,go figure ,they put saw dust in their dog food ...
I have considered mixing my own feed for a while now. I used to be able to sell my fresh eggs for five dollars a dozen and I delivered them to people. But after losing a bunch of hens, I didn’t have enough eggs for family let alone to sell. So having to start off buying five or six different types of feed to mix them up, has been cost prohibitive right now. I am down to four girls after losing the rest of my 16! I had to move the girls a couple years ago and two of them died over the winter because the new metal barn was not warm for them at all. Then this past summer I lost 10 of my hens to some foxes! When I had my full amount of girls, I would get one egg every three or four days through the whole winter from each of the girls. I am sure only having four vs 16 has made a difference. But I have not had one single solitary egg laid by them since December 3rd!!! I am so annoyed by this, because I am currently paying out a few more dollars for Kalmbach chicken feed. Still no eggs. I also have used Farm & Fleet‘s brand as well as Rural King‘s brand throughout this winter. Like I stated, not one darn egg from anyone no matter what feed they are on.😤😤😭😭
Can you share your grain mixture recipe and where you get your grains? Thanks!
@@Marie-st3pi I changed my feed to goat and Llamma feed.
We have 30 hens and had the same problem for about 6 months. We switched their feed from the Tractor Supply feed noted above, to a natural black oil sunflower, oats & whole corn mix with a small amount of diatomaceous earth for worming. After about 7 days of feeding this, we were getting about a dozen eggs a day after not getting a single egg in six months!. Bigger, cleaner eggs!
Did you make the feed yourself?
Very useful information to chew on, literally. It's amazing what happens these days, whether on purpose or not, there's always a viable reason for it. There should be independent analysis of the feeds, because you'll never get anyone to fess up to a conspiracy. Love ya'll ❤️
The weather was bad over the weekend, and I nearly ran into Tractor Supply to pick up chicken feed. I am SO glad my husband made the trip to our regular feed store.
I was a manager for them and i wish i could get over my hate for them. After 20 years managing for Borders, it was appalling how people could be treated. I quit one day after a beautiful trail ride when my team was mocked for being loyal to me and also getting the extremely demanding work done. This conpany has totally perfected exploiting real peoole who do love the farm life.
This is true. We buy our feed from a local tractor supply and our chickens had almost stopped with this brand. We switched brands and the egg production has almost tripled. We are used to the decreased production in the winter months but this has been drastic for the past few months.
We have raised laying hens for about 10 years now and have never had this happen even in the winter. We have always used Producer’s Pride “layer pellets” and I noticed a change on the bags of feed going from “layer pellets” to “mini pellets”. 20 hens and we just got 5 eggs this week with nothing over the last 2 months. I will be switching feed tomorrow! SO glad I happened upon this video. Thanks for sharing!
I suspect China.
This year was the first time my chickens quit laying, we were lucky to get 1 egg a day from 24 chickens. Thought is was because they just finished molting and then it became very cold. The last 2 weeks they have been back to normal, but our neighbor brought us some chicken feed to repay my husband for plowing, he bought a different brand so I’m going with the feed theory. I think this feed issue was planned! Thanks for the information Dutch.
We had the same problem with CAL Ranch. Added more corn in the morning to eat, then mealworms and black oil sunflower seeds in the afternoon around 3:30 pm. Went from one a day to six!
Exactly same here. Also take a look at your birds, not just the eggs. Are they getting skinny and losing feathers? They're NOT MOLTING. they're poisoned
@Elizabeth Elliott we did lose three. Yes, they lost weight.
Thanks for this bro, we have chickens and only 3 have been keeping up with the laying, the other 11 just stopped and I didn't even think it must be due to the feed, I purchased 2 bags of Producers Pride from the local tractor supply as they no longer had the other brand I purchased before, going to be going to Carmine Feed & Fertilizer from now on, because I am supplying friends and family with eggs, mostly due to lots of the older folks not able to keep up with $6 to $8 dollar eggs at the store, almost makes me think they are doing this on purpose to try to stop local communities from living without big brothers products and influence.
Let your chickens continue to free range if possible. If you know any organic farmers try to buy corn and crack it for them. Your chickens will have an almost orange yolk it will be so rich and more tasty. Also I learned from a County Sheep meeting this week that the FDA is not going to let farm stores sell basic medicines or antibiotics (like penicillin, oxytocin) after mid June. This was confirmed by the vet who was guest speaker. She said you'll have to get it all from the vet and the vet will have had to be on the farm at least once in a 12 months period. So bottom line establish a vet relationship. She also reiterated it was out of their control and even they had trouble getting penicillin right after it was announced. Not sure how we can stop more government overreach but here it is again.
Means animals will end up going without needed assistance in a timely manner or at all. Vets that make farm visits are few and far between these days. Going back to the days the only first aid for livestock was liniment, bag balm, gentian violet, coal tar, sugar wraps (still used by some vets) and mustard plasters... maybe some flowers of sulphur if you can find it, oh and don't forget styptic powder, there's your old timey critter first aid kit.
Haven't been able to get penicillin since 2020.
@@terramarini6880 All the items you mentioned still work and are less expensive than prescriptions. Thanks for the list.
Farmers that raise livestock organically use oil of oregano to treat illnesses that were previously treated with penicillin or other antibiotics.
It works. Some farmers add oregano to their feed.
@@pamwaldron2566 where can I get oil of oregano?
Thx Dutch for the info , your right nothing surprises us anymore , sadly 💕
Just found your channel and subbed and liked. This is the second channel I've run across this morning talking about this very thing. And as someone who has a big mountain farm in NM and buys chicken food at Tractor Supply I can absolutely confirm this. I stopped feeding them that Pride chicken food and switched to a different brand and they started laying again. And the feed has almost doubled in price to. They're trying hard to keep us from being able to produce our own food.
Around me in Illinois, every house brand of chicken feed has gone up between two and five dollars. I, myself have tried three different brands, including the so-called premium food by Kalmbach. But I have not had one single egg laid since December 3 buy any chicken! The month before that I was really only seeing one egg or two per week from each hen. So yes, I sincerely believe something is up with the feed. After the way, the governments around the world, treated us with Covid, you can bet your bottom dollar they’re trying to keep people from producing their own food (during lockdown the state of Michigan wouldn’t even let people purchase vegetable seeds!!!) & making it as hard and costly, as they possibly can!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'm spreading the word and depending on farmers like you to get the truth out there. If they are in fact doing something deliberately to affect people's food supply I think that's criminal, whether the law would do anything or not. You don't mess with people's food. Thanks again, appreciate you!
Wouldn’t surprise me at all,it’s getting insane how much of our food is being tampered with.
Years ago, we had a few chickens that we turned loose when we couldn't afford feed. They free ranged but also learned to steal food from the dogs. So funny to see them run a German Shepard off the food. The eggs they laid were huge and had great shells.
you are truly blessed with those darling chicken farmers.With what you teach them,they will never go hungry.God Bless
My parents were telling me a story today about someone's chickens that only started laying eggs again after they started feeding them table scraps.
feeding them that good GMO and pesticide scraps!!
We were using Producer's Pride. Our girls stopped laying in September. The did not molt. The whole flock is about a year old now. We tried everything to get them to lay. The first of December, I went to our local feed store to check the prices of their feed. Kalmbach 16% cost less so I bought it. Six days later they started laying. The days were not getting longer at the beginning of December. They even laid 10-11 eggs per day during the crazy cold at Christmas when they were locked in the barn for 3-4 days. We do have a single light bulb in the barn because the barn has no windows at all. It's a small barn, not a coop. It's completely dark in there when the doors are shut. Well, except for the little chicken door.
Go buy form a mom
And pop shop….
Same! Not a single egg from my ducks or chickens since early October…
Same. Not a single egg for about 6 weeks between October and December!! Switched from PP to Dumor... And even once they did start laying again... just 1 to 6 eggs per day. Wr have over 20 laying hens. The past 2 days we made a mix of goat feed, rolled oats, and black sunflower seed. Day 1 of this new mixture resulted in 5 eggs. Day 2, today (20 degrees and sleeting all day) also 5 eggs. I'm hopefully in time they'll go back to normal. Sure, production slows in winter but NOT LIKE THIS!!
I remember hearing a few years ago that there was an issue of Cattle Deaths that were being linked to Producer's Pride feed, I think it was mainly in Florida but not sure, so nothing would surprise me.
Happened to me. I usually buy the cheapest feed that is readily available, which happens to be Producers Pride at my current location. My small flock basically stopped laying during the winter, which I assumed was due to the weather. One hen seemed unhealthy a few weeks ago; in an effort to help her get well, I switched to DuMOR and added an electrolyte supplement to their water. Within days, egg production significantly increased and the hen quickly got well. I'm not sure if I'm ready to point the finger at Producers Pride, but results are results.. They're laying better than ever now.
It's unusual that food quality can impede the natural egg production cycle ( in so far as how climate, exercise and sunlight will influence this). It's almost like the food is lacking nutrient triggers or even blocking the normal egg production hormones. This is shocking, and I hope researchers study this to understand why. Is it something missing (malnutrition), or was something contaminated in the recent batches of food?
We were feeding DuMor and Producers Pride, and ours stopped. We bought some from runnings and they started back up.
A different feed not DuMor or Producers Pride. Sorry it wasn’t clear.
We switched from pride to dumor and they started laying again. Then we switched to a locally made feed and they’re laying really good.
My birds are laying fantastic right now too!
We have 14 hens and are still getting 9-11 eggs a day in January while using TS Pride feed. We do include extra Black Oil Sunflower seeds and a good scratch daily during the winter for extra protein. The hens are free range on 10 acres so the feed is secondary too bugs and grass which keeps the amount of feed really low.
Hi I'm in semi country area of Melbourne Australia and I have had chickens for years we are just small backyard run and just wanted to share my experience on this as well I've been using golden yolk layer pellets for many years without problems but in the last few months have virtually stop laying Lucy to get one egg in a couple of days on top of that we have just started or summer February and for this to happen at this time of year is extremely rare chickens are 2 years old I have never seen this happen before but after seeing your video I will definitely try changing my feed will let you know how it goes thanks for sharing your information 👍😉
Thank you Dutch for sharing this information. I feed Prouder’s Pride chicken feed & my year old hens have just about quit laying. I’m going to buy from the feed store that I get my horse feed & scratch from.
I Buy producers Pride and My Chickens lay just fine...The days are getting longer and I'm getting almost a Dozen Every day..Length of Day Affects Chickens No matter what you Feed them
@@connielewis604 that is awesome for you, but I did also have the same problem with TS Pride. I live in deep, deep South Texas(4 hrs south of San Antonio) our days don't get much shorter, our production tends to stay the same if not go up a little in winter because is not as hot. I switch brands and like magic a couple of weeks my young hens started laying. I dont know if is conspiracy or not, it was just my experience.
Hmm. Maybe there are good batches and bad ones? Our hens laying decreased dramatically way back in July! Then for about 6 weeks between October and December we got 0 eggs per day each day!!! Not normal!!! Since they started laying again in December we only get between 1 and 6 per day. We have over 20 laying hens. Yesterday we switched to goat feed mixed with black sunflower seed and rolled oats. So far day 1 was 5 eggs and day 2 (today which never got above freezing) also 5 eggs. It isn't the cold!!! We have had a pretty mild winter with many days over 40 or even 50 degrees this winter. We don't use a light or heat source in the coop.
Doug and Stacy justed article on that too they teach you how to make your own chicken feed which is great
From another homesteader in Oklahoma with free-range chickens
Thank You for this info cuz I definitely noticed the difference and yeah they make up excuses for their Greed but Thank God that Jesus is Coming Sooner than Later Amen
Dutch, The jump in egg prices in the stores as I have read.. is that there have been huge egg layer loses,
mysteriously due to several fires at commercial hen houses, also multiple millions of chickens lost due to
some kind of virus where those chickens had to be destroyed.
So less chickens laying eggs higher cost in the stores!!
5 million chickens lost in 1 fire in Minnesota last year. The list is huge of losses in food suppliers
In Iowa, many hatcheries got hit hard by the bird flu, all their stock destroyed, they took what eggs they had on hand filled some if the immediate orders and hatched the rest out to replenish their own breeding stock, guess what, when those hens were about to start laying again and they got hit again by the bird flu and lost thousands of birds. Many of them had rare/endangered breeds too yet. The midwest state (texas up to North Dakota over to Minnesota and all the way down south is a major migratory bird route that is used to go north in spring and south in fall, Bird flu is carried mostly by waterfowl is what we were told here and how to protect our back yard flocks (impossible for me to do) but I have seen it all around but we have not been affected at all yet nor have a couple of neighbors who also have chickens. Most do not realize that chickens molt (shed their old feathers and replace with new) every year, when they molt they stop laying also. So I wonder how many are confusing an issue with a feed vrs not realizing their chickens are molting (one here blew all her feathers at once in Dec, the other two did it slowly over a 2 month period - yep no eggs for 3 months).
Something like 50 million birds have been killed because of avian flu.
The fentanol appadenmic seems to be hitting everywhere. People to feed stores to animals to grocery stores...where does it end? Crazy people...take them out.
Another egg barn burnt yesterday in Connecticut
My neighbor just texted me yesterday asking if my chickens are laying. I told her they are laying close to a dozen a day. She told me that her chicken stopped laying and she had to buy store eggs. I let her know that the feed from Tractor Supply has been making chickens stop laying. She said she will be going to our local feed bin for their mix because that's where I told her I go and we don't have a problem. Thing is we were using Tractor sSupply feed until they started raising the price and we found our local feed store sells theirs cheaper.
When I was snotty nose brat we purchased laying mash at the local feed mill as well as grit and oyster shells. I love every minute that was spent on a forty acre farm.🇺🇸🐻
Glad you're reporting this. Just sent a home made food recipe to my son and daughter in law for their chickens. Just hoping whatever is in the particular feed isn't a permanent sterilization.
Since the days are becoming longer my chickens are beginning to lay more eggs. I was mixing corn, oats, black oil sunflower seeds, and commercial Purina feed, equal parts. The chickens were picking out everything else and leaving the commercial feed.
Doug & Stacy had a video the other day. A woman did a buncha investigating & found that the largest supplier of eggs (that hasn't burned up), is now in partnership with Purina aka nestle, which is the largest supplier of animal feeds. Conspiracy???
@@jeffd1919 I watch Doug and Stacy all the time. Very accurate info. Conspiracy...looks very suspicious!!
Thanks for explaining all this. Our egg prices are up to $8.99 a dozen. We quit buying from the stores. We found farmers who wanted to give us better deals.
I didn't even realize at first that was the difference....I cant remember why I started buying from Tractor supply instead of my local feed store...but for MONTHS I had NO EGGS...not one egg and my flock has at least 25 hens. Then I started back with the feed from my local feed store and I am overrun with eggs. Hallelujah!
I heard about this through Doug and Stacys channel. My chickens haven't laid eggs since October (around when I bought more feed from Tractor supply). I haven't had one single egg since October! I wasn't sure why until I seen their videos. I stopped ALL tractor supply feed and within 48 hours I finally got an egg!!
I was using pride scratch grains and Dumor layer feed.
I have never once fed my girls tractor supply because it’s too far away. I have fed Rural King‘s house brand, Farm and Fleet’s house brand, and for the last two months I have fed Kalmbach feeds. I have not had a single egg since December 3/2022.
So I would like to know exactly what is going on with my girls…🤷🏻♀️
@@Marie-st3pi how old are they? They usually stop for the winter at about age 3.
I'm glad I saw this and makes total sense! My chickens haven't laid a single egg in months and this explains it I'm changing feed to see what happens. Like he said I normally get and eggs here or there but none is weird. Thanks for this video!
Also buy cheap cat food it's 30% protein and feed growing feed I don't buy layer plus it helps molting
This is so strange because my chickens stopped laying also and only recently started laying again. I will be changing my feed.
My chickens too
@@elizabethblackwell3757 I give my chickens cheap cat food about once a week during the winter. They love it and choose it first over everything else.
Mine stopped in early October and also my ducks! This is definitely not normal….
Yup, happened to me. Mine stopped completely laying in October, I was feeding tractor supply feed. I finally took advice and switched to an all grain feed. Exactly one week later started getting eggs. 3 weeks in and I'm run over with eggs.
Happened to us. I’m new to chickens so I had no idea what was going on. 😠 thankful for those speaking out
I’ve been thinking about this….have been blown away with all the (coincidental) issues I’ve been experiencing and noticing…had my flock up to 40 hens and 6 roosters…not only did my whole flock stop laying completely…even my younger chickens who always lay aren’t doing well..switched food and my flock of 20 is gaining weight as well as growing better and they are grown!! And also they are laying again…within a week of changing their diet….I have been noticing that they weren’t really healthy and they didn’t lay!! But now I’m blown away at this reality of this!! Crazy times!!! Going to go local and stay local….I can’t believe….but do that this is happening…my budget is already tapped out…it’s scary to think that people who make this feed aren’t getting sued!! I guess we know we can’t afford it!! Lol my chickens are under attack!!😢
This has crossed my mind in the last few months. I went from getting an egg a day from 12 chickens to only getting about five eggs a day before they started molting and before the days shortened. I still chopped it up to being just that time of year and maybe my chickens were getting old.
Dutch, I read approximately 57 million birds have been killed off because of the Avian bird flu.
But it also said that's less than 10% of layers. So if that's only 10% of them, then why do we have a egg shortage?? I don't get it !
Love seeing the girls so young💕
How's PEARL doing ? Ok I hope.
GODS Blessings on your Family & Farm
Love 🌻 from NC 💜
I heard on the news that the egg producing place in Connecticut that burned 2 days ago lost about 100,000 laying hens.
My hens stopped laying in October. I saw a TH-cam video about the TS feed and switched them to a diff brand. They’ve been laying like crazy the past three weeks, since the switch.
I also wondered why my chickens stopped laying in going to change feed. Thank you for the input.
We have been noticing this for at least the last 5 years. We had been using Dumor 5 years ago (Dumor and Producers Pride are made by Purina, which I recently heard Bill Gates has his hands into) our hens stopped laying during peak laying season. No eggs. Asked around in our 4H circles, tried those friend's suggestions, no luck. The feed store was out of Dumor so we switched feed simply due to what was in stock and the hens 'magically' started laying again. Heard buzz at the feed store from other shoppers at the time that they had the same problem, when we asked what feed they used, it was Dumor. We mostly have been using Producers Pride since with no problems. We actually use PP now, but mix in kitchen scraps, free range, various seeds, game bird (we also have ducks, guineas and quail). So our chickens are still laying what we would consider normal for winter...
WEF (Klause Schwab) also has a hand in this.
This is why deregulating is bad if you don't have people inspecting these companies they will just give CEOs profit and don't care if they are mixing contaminated feed! I'm more inclined to think that the chemicals sprayed on the plants or a fungal problem like horses who can actually abort by being fed contaminated feed!
Good luck with your egg layers. Enjoyed the clip of the girls when they were younger. Hope your info helps someone. GOD BLESS Y'ALL.
Yes...so adorable, such beautiful blonde hair, and cute little dolls!!! We'd love to c more younger photo, please!
This is true about the feed. I noticed this last summer my chickens didn't lay eggs and I am here in Texas. In the summer my chickens stopped laying and I was giving them the Producers Pride feed from Tractor Supply! The 40 lb bag is easier to carry than the 50 lb bag. I couldn't figure out why they weren't laying. I came up with all kinds of excuses and NEVER once thought it was the feed. I am in south Texas so it doesn't get real cold for long. My egg producing has diminished by far. I will now change my feed. Thanks.
My mom has 47 hens and has only gotten 7 eggs in the last 2 1/2 months. The problem is the only feed store that is close is tractor supply. She is retired and has very minimal income and so she depends on the eggs to sell for a small income. This video was very informative. I'm hoping that i can find a DIY food mix that i can show her how to make
There should be several channels with that info. If not, a simple google search will find a ton.
Tell her to try goat feed
Chickens don't have to be fed store-bought food. They forage
Interesting to know! I don't personally have chickens so I live vicariously through all y'all! Thanks for sharing 👍🤗❤ hope Pearl is ok~
This was my experience and it had nothing to do with winter molting. I got my first six hens about two-and-a-half years ago. I started off feeding a brand from Walmart. Once they started laying, I was getting 4-6 eggs a day. Mind you, two of my hens are silky's which only lay 2-4 eggs a week. Over time, it became increasingly difficult to get what I was getting from Walmart because they were out of stock more often than not and finally settled on producers pride at TSC, sometimes DuMor. I made that switch early spring last year. For the rest of spring, the entirety of Summer, and moving into fall, I was only getting 1-3 eggs a day. At this point I had added two more hens so, now I have 8. Early fall, TSC was out of both of the brand's I had been buying, Producers Pride and, occasionally, DuMor so, I paid a little more for an organic brand, the name of which I don't recall at the moment. Literally within just a couple of days I went from getting 1-3 eggs a day to 5-8 a day and have remained consistent with that throughout fall and winter, even in temperatures below freezing.
The reason that your production spiked was the food. Layer need more than just that 16% pellets. They need a higher ratio of nutrition. When you took them to a higher grain amount they increased production. The pellet is a base feed, it's not the only source feed. If that sac of 16% is the only thing people are using, then 🙄 wow... yeah. There's the conspiracies right there. That's meant to be a base for their dietary needs. It's not the only feed they are to get. Changing the base feed formulary shouldn't effect production if they are getting a well balanced diet.
Mine stopped laying since November, saw Doug and Stacy and went for seed/grain today. I noticed the smell was off because I normally use a more expensive brand but chose to switch to TC in October because they were $12.99 a bag vs my $27. Usually they are $16.99. Learning the lesson.
I think its a coincidence because we have just turned the corner of increasing daylight which cause chickens to produce eggs more regular. Mine have always slowed down in the winter months so much so weeks would go by and not seeing one egg. This past winter was another slow egg winter. There have been days I only got one or two eggs and even no eggs. (over 15 hens) Ive been doing this for years and it has always been the same during this time of year. I dont use heat lamps or use supplemental lighting. I think they need a winter rest. Things have picked up in the last week or so now Im getting between 3-5 eggs a day now. Im not using the Tractor supply feed. Im using another brand. I have used the TSC pride brand 16-22% and havent seen any difference when Ive used it. I dont use it now because I can get another brand cheaper and bigger 50lb bag over the 40lb bags at TSC. I also mix my feed with cracked corn and or some scratch and they get table scraps.
Heat lamps and 4 hours more light will help once you get a good feed
Are you a Government employ????
"think it's a coincidence"
@@matthewvalentine3549 Please do some research using reliable sources and communities, heat lamps are absolutely not needed and more often very dangerous for chickens. They have a high natural body heat and all they need to be fine is a dry, wind-sheltered location and good enough feed to maintain that body temp. You can test this for yourself in a way (not exact, but you'll get the idea). Eat a hot meal and go outside on a cold day. Then eat a cold less filling meal and go outside and stand next to a space heater. Option one will have you feeling much warmer longer guaranteed. Option two may warm part of you, but assuming you are wearing a coat (like having feathers) much of that surface heat will not reach your body. Please don't use the heat lamps and if you are in an extreme situation, go to a safer alternative like a warming pad (not needed even in -30 temps where even my bare-bottom hens have been fine).
@@Beachbear2012 Yes it could be . Ive been doing chickens over a decade there are a lot of factors that go into play when it comes to egg layers. For one, Stress factors such as crowding, too many roosters, time of the year, age of the chickens, molting etc... Mine have stopped laying for several months at one time but I attributed it to many factors especially during the winter months. Temperature fluctuations. I dont give mine any supplemental lighting or heat. Mine usually slow down in the winter months. Ive had hatchlings in mid summer and I dont expect them to start laying in the winter months although they have become of age. Also if they are in molt or coming out of molt during the winter months I cant expect them to lay right away. Too many roosters will also stress the hens and there will be fewer egg laying because of the stress. I dont provide any supplemental lighting or heat which have been proven to help egg laying. I think they should be given a rest period. I hear people say their chickens stop laying after so many years but mine continue to lay on a regular especially through spring and fall no matter their age. Like I said the only slow down I experience is the winter months. Through the spring and fall they are allowed to free forage from time to time. In the winter time there are less bugs for them to eat. Ive used several different feed manufactures from local to TSC pride (Purina). All with basically the same result. Over feeding also may play a part in less egg laying. Most people overfeed their chickens which cause them to put on a lot of fat which will cause their chickens to have all sort of issues. My chickens get fed 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of feed per day. They arent fat but they are healthy. They also get table scraps. Sometimes I think we expect too much from our hens and would like them to produce all the time like commercial producers.
This is also what a friend of mine experienced with his chickens.
Well, Dutch, you made me cry. That precious clip of the girls!!! My boys will soon be 27 and 25 and my BabyGirl is almost 21!! It flies by so quickly. I know that's exactly why you started this channel and it's wonderful to be able to look back at those special moments. The beautiful memories you are creating for your girls are recorded for posterity and you will never regret that.
I haven't noticed any changes in my hen's laying and I generally use Producer's Pride but I also add a lot of veggies and other "treats" like black soldier fly larvae and grubs, etc.. We can't really free-range our girls due to predators and a really busy highway, but we try to give them the kind of variety they love. I am looking forward to seeing the results of some of the studies being done on the P.P. food. Like you, nothing surprises me anymore.
You guys take care and God bless ❣️
LesaGail< in SC
I'm glad you enjoyed the clip Lesa! They grow up way too fast! We've enjoyed looking back at this cute clip of the girls many times over the last 10 years 😊
I use a different brand
Called Blue Seal, but having the typical winter slow down. They quit for a while during their molting, but are back to winter laying amounts. I don't use artificial light and chose hens known to lay over winter since I live in the northeast. Snow on ground now, so no free ranging, but I do throw in mixed greens, whole kernal corn (to help keep their body heat during the winter) and mealworm treats with their grain scratch. Because they're confined to the coop and run during snow, I give them crumble to keep them busy scratching so they don't get bored. When we have a melt and grass shows I let them out to forage.
I agree we changed feed was using tractor supply feed because our chickens stopped laying three weeks ago and now egg production has resumed!
I started using the TS pride back in Jul-Aug, by end of Aug- first of September my hens stopped laying. I changed their food 2 weeks ago and I am getting eggs everyday now.
same here
Our recent feed is from Farm And Fleet, and 2 weeks ago while we were out of town that is all our chickens got fed for 9 days. Their egg production went from 8-10 per day to 1 per week. It's slowly improving (3 yesterday) due (I believe) to all the kitchen scraps we give them daily. Consolidation of food producers (human and animal) is a very bad idea. Almost as bad as consolidated medicine or media. Mistakes or malevolence hit harder and wider. I hope we wake enough people up to the dangers so we can start to fix the mess our government is allowing.
FYI: I have never bought Producers Pride at Tractor Supply (TS). What I was feeding my hens from TS, starting in late Spring of 2022 was a combo of Dumor Non GMO pellets and Purina or Natures Best Organic Chicken Scratch one month and the next month an Organic pellet w the scratch listed above. My egg production diminished so much that I had to buy my first dozen eggs in late summer 2022, I thought it was the heatwave in TX, but I had not bought eggs since 2011 and it is always hot here in the summer. Mid Jan 2023, lost 2 hens w symptoms of swollen bellies while getting 2-3 eggs/day with a flock of 15 hens. Then last week I hear about this issue w TS, I switched feed and w/in 5 days my girls are producing again. So, it is NOT just Producers Pride, TS has permanently lost me as a customer. I also learned that our benevolent 'friends' at Blackrock are owners of >10% shares of TS. Coincidence? Think Not!
WEF also!
Me too. We never bought Producer's pride, we got the Dumor and organic scratch, and for the first time in 10 years my chickens stopped. I had to buy eggs. Something is up though.
I really enjoyed your post today.
You seem so busy every day. With your animals and building your home and now the new property I often wonder if you ever just need to have a chill out day and just relax.
Your girls are so lucky to live this way. They have experience and knowledge that most kids today will never have.
Keep up the great videos coming
Our chickens stopped laying and were only being fed Purina. We switched to Producers Pride about 4 months ago and they started laying 👍HOWEVER..... we are now on our 10-12 bag of Pride and the laying has slowed down considerably.
Thank you very much forTellingTheTruth.!!!!😁👍👌👏👏👏👏👏💖
I know you have a freeze dryer - freeze dry your extra eggs. I did this last summer and am so thankful I did. I use the eggs for every that I would an egg in the shell with the exception of hard boiled or over easy. 2 tablespoons of dried egg and 2 tablespoons of water equals one egg.
I bought my feed from tractor supply and now that you mention it for the past month they have not layed a single egg. I just figured it was because of the weather I live in Augusta Georgia the weather hasn’t been that bad but this is my first time raising chickens so I figured it was normal.
That's crazy Lisa! We've been hearing that from a ton of people
I bought 8 bags at TSC 2 weeks ago and my 20 birds are laying 8-10 per day, no change at all. Before that I'd bought 8 bags at Runnings. I have always bought these discount feeds as it is the best I can do economically, and I supplement with kitchen scraps and BOSS and cracked corn. My routine hasn't changed in years and neither has my egg production when looked at as a weekly average. Seems like less of a problem when considering all users of this feed across the country, maybe just some bad batches or some bad experiences.
@@mrsdutch8994 well mine had just started laying about September and October so they are not old chickens that’s not the problem. They were laying really good then I got them ts feed and now nothing
@@GreenMachine1365 just saying mine was doing great until I bought ts feed this last time then nothing haven’t got a single egg
This absolutely happened to us. We’ve never had our chickens lay ZERO eggs in 4 years. Switching today!
Update…switched to the all livestock feed…got 4 eggs today
We have always used it and normally ours lay all the time in the winter (we don't generally get lower the 30 at night) and even in the summer (up to 120°+) but the last few months they haven't been laying like at all. So I'm experimenting bought Walmart this time for a couple months to see if it's that.
Off grid with Doug and Stacy do a great job talking about all this.
How interesting, we’re in the UK 🇬🇧 and we had the SAME issue. Along with friends who keep chickens. A couple of My chickens began to get sickly during the time they stopped laying eggs. So I stopped giving my chickens the layers pellets that they were on and gave them grains,sunflower seeds, lentils, mealworms, corn while I looked for another brand for pellets. And would you believe it, my hens started laying again within a 2 days during the coldest snap we had in the UK for a long time (mid December 2022) -6 degrees Celsius (21.2 degrees fahrenheit) lots of snow on the ground too! I did the switch before even knowing there was something wrong with the feed. Didn’t realise that everyone was experiencing the same. I’m suspicious of certain things since the last 2 years has come and gone.
Scary world we are living in. Unbelievable
Stacy on OFF GRID with DOUG & STACY, said the Amish raise pullets in the spring, they will be old enough to start laying come fall. They will lay the first winter, then get in their normal cycle afterwards. Sounds like a plan, either eat the older ones, or sell them off each fall...
I used Doug & Stacy’s recipe & got 3 eggs today!!! Finally!
The price of eggs has really gone up. I went to a supermarket that only had large eggs. I just didn't by eggs at all. Hopefully next time I can find the eggs I usually buy from a local farmer. Hopefully the supply store will look into that chicken feed. Thank you. 🙂
@@codyrussow170 bill gates became the largest farmland owner in the United States recently and now we are having controlled shortages of basic products. The free market is dead. You have no idea what you are talking about leave that nice lady alone
$5-6 dozen here
Feed can make a difference. I have seen this in all feeds even dog feeds.
Mine quit laying. I added the new pullets and dumped in the remaining chic feed. Suddenly, the old hens started laying. Once that feed was up, I started with the same feed I have been using, and the eggs stopped. This was July and August, so it wasn't delayed egg laying from winter sun.
One other thing I do is any meat scraps and fat that I trim, I feed it to my hens and they go wild for it and it's good for them. I researched whether it was safe to feed it to them first though. Last week we had a bone in ham for dinner. After I trimmed what we wanted from the bone I gave it to my hens. I don't think I've ever seen a bone picked so clean. So there's lots you can do to supplement your chickens feed.
Hi Dutch Great video Always have a helpful answer for people. How is Pearl. Praying she's getting better. God bless and love yall
Doug and Stacey shared a video of a woman who did her homework on this and now we know how and why it was deliberately done - a huge corporation trying to buy out everyone being biggest egg producers and bought out feed company - conflict of interest. Changes in the feed while they need to sell more of their own eggs
That is EXACTLY what happened to my small flock of 14 two year old hens! I feed the 16% Producers Pride mini pellet exclusively as I was getting it for $10.99/bag, up from $7.99/bag 18 months ago. Once fall hit the eggs slowed down somewhat as several were molting. Finally around the middle of November they quit!! I had to buy eggs right when the eggs went to over $4/doz at Walmart. Anyway, I thought maybe something with more protein might jump start the hens so I went to whatever I could get that was 18, 20 and 22% protein. Within five days, right after Christmas I suddenly had three eggs in the layer boxes. Had not seen an egg in over six weeks. I have had chickens since the mid aughts, ‘05 or so and it had never been this bad ever in the winter. I’ve been getting back to layer pellets as it has more calcium as opposed to 20% flock fixer or 22% meat bird crumbles but never again Producers Pride. I’m now getting 6 to 10 eggs a day and am selling eggs again. It’s true people! I feed cheap fed long enough, the chickens deserve a bit better.
Aw man, I wish I could get it for $10.99 still! Here it's about $14.99 now used to be $10 ish when I got my first chickens 2018. I actually haven't been using it for the last six months, though my birds preferred it ( smaller pellets, easier to eat) , because I got a good deal on CAL ranch brand pellets from a grand opening last June. I am running out though, so now I have to decide what to do for food. I really wish I could get Henhouse reserve from Kalmbach around here, that was excellent feed. it would get pricey for my 57 chickens though...
Many of mine are a bit over two years old, so I am not expecting them to be laying as much as the past years.
I used that pellet and never had problems with it but it’s concerning because the price of eggs sky rocketed
Not just Tractor Supply.... We have a local place for our Feed, and had the same issues. We shifted over to corn, oat and barley (Home Made) and fresh Vegetable (Scraps)... and BOOM... eggs.... Something is most certainly going on with mass produced feed. Thanks for the Video! Good Stuff!!!
This is so timely, one of my hens started laying again recently but then stopped after a week on the newest feed bag (others lasted the last 3 months)
I recently decided to add layer feed as an ingredient in worm chow for my worm farm. I was literally a day or 2 away from trying this. I wouldnt want my worms to stop laying chicken eggs. But seriously, i dont think i want to introduce this feed into my worm bin.
So timely!
I think there is more to it. I use Producers pride scratch and Dumor crumbles. I had an immediate stop of eggs in October. I have around 30 chickens. They ALL stopped what seemed over night. I figured they had a meeting and decided to molt together. No biggie winter is coming. But now its Tech feb and I get maybe 1- 3 eggs a day, which started about 2 weeks ago. Needless to say I will be changing my feed this week. Something is defiantly not right. Have been a chicken raiser for over 20 years. Im not new to this rodeo.
I’m so glad I have stayed with the same feed from a tiny town feed store!!!
I really like the Stillwater milling feed. I ferment my feed and am using 30% less.
I was under the impression that chickens always slowed down and sometimes even stopped egg production in winter!
You do usually get less eggs in the winter but it doesn’t completely stop all together. The first winter my hens laid all winter because they didn’t molt, they were 9 months at the start of winter. But the second year when they molted in the fall they did slow down but we still got eggs.
No I use lights
Alot of people were having problems way before winter got here
Yes, yes they do
@@karenbarnes5517 Using lights to mimic extra daylight is NOT being a good steward of your animals. EVERYTHING needs a break !
I have had chickens since 2012 and have always bought from TSC to supplement the free range feeding. I have not and still have no issues with egg laying. I switch out my egg layers every 24 months after they start laying the first egg. Again never and still not an issue; very consistent for 13 years now.
For me started early last year. Had my hens on dumar producers pride all last year, I had only 2 dozen eggs at best all year from 4 hens. Couldn't figure it out why., now i know, had to switch to full organic, will stay with this feed. Thank you for sharing this. I agree with Doug and Stacy, might be what they are putting in it versus not.