It is absolutely true and it was with any chicken feed from the Tractor Supply stores. That's the feed I give my own chickens and they stopped laying eggs around October and not a single egg for 2 months which has never happened before. When I checked with the backyard flock communities and farmers, all of them were having the same issues and they told us to stop the feed and low and behold, our chickens started laying again. Somebody online who did some digging did say that the date of the new board appointments coincided with the dates of when all the chickens stopped laying eggs, so that part is suspicious but if you ask anybody who used that feed, they will tell you the same thing, so those of us in the chicken community know for a fact what it was.
Do you have chickens for personal production only, in your backyard? Do you think bad feed from Tractor Supply would affect national supply? If so, wouldn't egg producers whose livelihoods depend on it be more vocal about it?
I'm willing to accept that bad feed made it to the market for hobbyists and small farms, but I'm not seeing it as orders coming down from an investment management board to double the price of eggs, or depopulate the earth, or whatever other theories are out there.
Also, forgive my ignorance but does production usually go down in October as winter sets in? Though I do acknowledge you mentioning it never fully stopped like this before.
Good questions! Yes, I do have chickens for personal production but it wasn't just backyard flocks, it was farmers everywhere and they were very vocal about it in the communities I follow, which is why I stopped the feed from the tractor supply store (it's not just 1 brand either) because they had already seemed to figure it out.
When the deep state predicts a food supply shortage and then food plants start going down in flames 1 right after the other in such a short period of time, then you start to connect the dots. During an egg shortage, chickens across the entire country just stopped laying eggs and what proved to be responsible was all the chicken feed from 1 huge supply chain that practically all chicken farmers use, seems to be a huge coincidence that can't just be considered an accident. It's this reason that some farmers started looking into the Tractor Supply Stores in general to see what changed starting in Sept.
You are correct in saying that chickens lay less eggs during the winter, which is why egg prices tend to go up slightly in the winter, but never have we ever seen them not lay a single egg for weeks! When a chicken doesn't lay an egg after 3 days, there are a series of things to check to make sure the chicken isn't egg bound and dies...the fact that they were able to stave them off for months just blows my mind! It just...doesn't happen! Check this out...
https://original.newsbreak.com/@msbirgith-561347/2912999310303-egg-shortage-in-united-states-but-listen-what-farmers-say
I've read enough people/farms saying they changed their feed and the egg laying improved. When I read dogs are dying from eating a brand of dog food, it is enough proof for me not to use it. I'm not going to court. I'm just feeding my dog.
But does some dude on Twitter saying "many have found ..." meet your bar for evidence?
It is absolutely true and it was with any chicken feed from the Tractor Supply stores. That's the feed I give my own chickens and they stopped laying eggs around October and not a single egg for 2 months which has never happened before. When I checked with the backyard flock communities and farmers, all of them were having the same issues and they told us to stop the feed and low and behold, our chickens started laying again. Somebody online who did some digging did say that the date of the new board appointments coincided with the dates of when all the chickens stopped laying eggs, so that part is suspicious but if you ask anybody who used that feed, they will tell you the same thing, so those of us in the chicken community know for a fact what it was.
Do you have chickens for personal production only, in your backyard? Do you think bad feed from Tractor Supply would affect national supply? If so, wouldn't egg producers whose livelihoods depend on it be more vocal about it?
I'm willing to accept that bad feed made it to the market for hobbyists and small farms, but I'm not seeing it as orders coming down from an investment management board to double the price of eggs, or depopulate the earth, or whatever other theories are out there.
Also, forgive my ignorance but does production usually go down in October as winter sets in? Though I do acknowledge you mentioning it never fully stopped like this before.
Good questions! Yes, I do have chickens for personal production but it wasn't just backyard flocks, it was farmers everywhere and they were very vocal about it in the communities I follow, which is why I stopped the feed from the tractor supply store (it's not just 1 brand either) because they had already seemed to figure it out.
When the deep state predicts a food supply shortage and then food plants start going down in flames 1 right after the other in such a short period of time, then you start to connect the dots. During an egg shortage, chickens across the entire country just stopped laying eggs and what proved to be responsible was all the chicken feed from 1 huge supply chain that practically all chicken farmers use, seems to be a huge coincidence that can't just be considered an accident. It's this reason that some farmers started looking into the Tractor Supply Stores in general to see what changed starting in Sept.
You are correct in saying that chickens lay less eggs during the winter, which is why egg prices tend to go up slightly in the winter, but never have we ever seen them not lay a single egg for weeks! When a chicken doesn't lay an egg after 3 days, there are a series of things to check to make sure the chicken isn't egg bound and dies...the fact that they were able to stave them off for months just blows my mind! It just...doesn't happen! Check this out... https://original.newsbreak.com/@msbirgith-561347/2912999310303-egg-shortage-in-united-states-but-listen-what-farmers-say
All great info, thanks, appreciate it
I've read enough people/farms saying they changed their feed and the egg laying improved. When I read dogs are dying from eating a brand of dog food, it is enough proof for me not to use it. I'm not going to court. I'm just feeding my dog.
Fair enough, I guess it comes down to whether it was intentional, and what their goals could be. I made another reply to that effect.