Dammit, I really like this store. The employees are always very friendly and were non nazi ish during covid. Never once questioned my not wearing a mask. They are even willing to special order Ivermectin.

Crap my daughter is an Area manager. I’ll have to ask about that ask I thought it was one of the good stores.

I am using a local supplier for my chickens this year and I have experienced more egg laying this winter than any previous winter. I have had them stop for months at a time before, but not this year. The local stuff is not fancy, and is really cheap. I wonder if there may be some truth to this story even though it sounds really far fetched.

I always fed my chickens cracked corn during the winter. During the other three seasons they practically fed themselves and kept my yard insect free.

When the days get shorter they will stop laying eggs. Don’t recall how much light they need per day to produce their egg laying hormones. I kept a light on in the barn and they layer all winter long.

I’ve got chickens, family has chickens. When the weather gets bad, chickens have a tendency to lay fewer or not at all for a few days or weeks. If a chicken starts to molt(sp?), basically you’ll see lots of feathers in the coop…they will also stop laying eggs during that process. So it may not be the food. My brother buys TSC food and his chickens stopped laying eggs for a month or so…but they were also molting. So it happens. She can also be a factor. New egg layers do better than chickens that are 4-5 yrs old. Eventually they’ll stop laying eggs. That’s when I introduce mine to the back 60. Be free little chicken!

Then nature takes it course.

Feed your chickens more table scraps. Make them less reliant on cabal chicken feed.

It's not just Tractor Supply and it's not just that brand. My chickens stopped laying and I haven't been inside TS for months. We changed their feed and within a day or two they were laying like crazy again and obviously feeling better. They were never vaccinated. They were never fed cheap feed. They were never fed anything with less protein. BTW, I've been seeing experienced chicken people talking about their hens not laying for a couple of months. I've seen at least three brands cited.

I regularly feed my hens producers pride layer pellets and scratch mix, I also free range and give table scraps. I also designed my coops for optimal sunlight with south facing windows and for the most part keep up on coop maintenance, aka regularly changing out bedding material. Slight decrease per usual for winter, but for my 19 laying age hens I'm averaging a dozen per day. Aside from daylight hours and temp, if you arent taking care of your girls they won't lay, also no ever talks about how old their hens are. Just like all living things, their production decreases as they age and also all breeds lay at different rates. There's a lot of newbies that have entered into the chicken world since 2020 who are clouding the information pool with misinformation.

I have two Friends in Wisconsin that experienced interruptions in regular egg laying...any of those stores up there?

I use Dumor pellets from TSC. My hens still lay. Not as much as summer, but enough. My ducks are doing just as well. No issues here.

They are demo cratic Americans. In 2020 we went to get Ivermectin and they said a lot of people coming here to take it for COVID, but it will make you really sick. She looked down on us. Never been back to them.

Never bought it, we have a good regional supplier Blue Seal, made in New England Good to know though, TS sells some Purina egg layer I have been looking at, but thanks for posting. I have gone there a few times but much prefer Menards or Agways.

Now they're sterilizing the chickens with the clot shot.

Any thoughts/experiences with Rural King? I know they’re not everywhere, but my local one plays christian music and has tons of USA made products.

Sterility chemical.