EXCLUSIVE: Natural News releases lab test results of Tractor Supply "Producer's Pride" chicken feed (and five other chicken feed...
Following widely circulated anecdotal reports of people claiming that Tractor Supply's "Producer's Pride" brand of chicken feed was causing their chickens to stop laying eggs, we purchased six chicken feed products (of various brands) from Tractor Supply f...
They tested for contaminants, not nutrient values.
All of the problems I've read about stem from these products having low protein count, not toxins or heavy metals.
For a while glyphosate was the speculation. Otherwise correct yes.
buy the fake bug-meat, feed it to chickens mixed with seeds/grains ?
The toxicity in these ingredient lists read similar to the amount of toxins in our packaged food. This doesn't surprise me.
TLDR: They didn't find anything.
Interesting, but, if the goal is to isolate the cause of chickens not laying eggs, it's irresponsible to publish this article with no conclusion. The biggest TLDR?
They need to show the journalistic tenacity to pursue this and ultimately nail down a cause, otherwise, this is just a fart in the wind. The absence of them nailing down the DS "deep food" players connected to these feeds, as well as anecdotal evidence that there's one feed in particular that causes this, makes this really weak stuff.
They should solicit samples from the people whos chickens stopped laying.
Exactly!
Just like the shots. Batches vary.
Yep. About 5% of lot #'s (1 in 20) are the cause of most of the deaths / hospitalizations. It's tuned in and consistently spaced out to be anything other than design.
It's so easy for someone to dismiss this large amount of work as useless because it doesn't conclusively provide the answer they're looking for.
Mike Adams experimentally eliminated, at least as far as this small sample can provide, the likelihood that these problems are caused by heavy metals, glyphosate, aflatoxins and other microbiology.
That narrows down the possibilities, and that is very useful.
Some are suggesting the type of protein in the feed may have been changed. That remains to be tested for, and was not a part of this set of experiments.
Thank you for saying this. Sampling these products, taking them to labs, knowing what to ask for all takes time and the tests are certainly not free. This was a noble effort on all our behalf and the information is useful.
There were plenty of posts here about how it could be glyphosate causing this. This shows that's not the case. It's a step. Nothing more. I'm just happy that somebody out there put effort into attempting to figuring it out.
Hopefully the people who’s hens stopped laying know that hens lay based on sunlight cycles and stop laying during solar minimums. Not during winter per say…
That is one of the most obvious answers, well for chicken keepers anyway. Seemed as though it affected those feeding TSC food more than other brands.