Walmart , egg pricing

[peter lena 8,610]

being  a regular at  WALLY , typically notice pricing increases , lately many areas are dropping , like  18 eggs for $  3.18 !  my wife was telling another shopper about  Walmart egg prices , that were still close to $ 10 for 18 in that store ,  she immediately added that on her stop going home ,  shop around , pete 

[Pullstart 62,834]

Wow.  I have bought a dozen store eggs just a couple times this winter, otherwise our birds have laid just enough for us.  There sure is a quality about a farm egg over a store egg!  The yolk is different color, the egg tastes hearty, I’d prefer no other way.

[cafoose 3,354]

My neighbors were feeding their chickens Tractor Supply feed and they all but stopped laying over the winter. They knew they would slow down but almost nothing from over 15 chickens? They started mixing their own feed and now the eggs are plentiful. They believe something in the Tractor Supply feed caused it.

[Pullstart 62,834]

1 hour ago, cafoose said:

My neighbors were feeding their chickens Tractor Supply feed and they all but stopped laying over the winter. They knew they would slow down but almost nothing from over 15 chickens? They started mixing their own feed and now the eggs are plentiful. They believe something in the Tractor Supply feed caused it.

We offer scratch in unlimited supply, free range when there isn’t snow and have been cooking them kidney beans and macaroni.  All kinds of protein and some filler carbs.  It’s cheaper than feed and our production too increased virtually overnight!  The funny thing about the theory of food being funky, is that hens are born with a certain amount of egg embryos in their body.  I can’t imagine how food would alter that number… but changing from mass manufactured feed has improved their output anyway.

[Darb1964 1,042]

53 minutes ago, cafoose said:

My neighbors were feeding their chickens Tractor Supply feed and they all but stopped laying over the winter. They knew they would slow down but almost nothing from over 15 chickens? They started mixing their own feed and now the eggs are plentiful. They believe something in the Tractor Supply feed caused it.

I have heard the same thing from other people I know that use tractor supply feed. My wife and I have had laying hens for thirty five years. We allow our hens to slow down while molting in late fall as day's get shorter. Then around January first we use artificial light and warm water. In a few weeks they start laying good again depending on age. We get our feed from a local farmer that makes, grinds, feed and sells it to locals like us.

[953 nut 55,189]

Years back I got four laying hens from a friend who was moving and couldn't take them with him. They would eat anything you put in the coop, grass clippings, fish heads& guts and I also bought chicken feed.  After a few years they started producing less eggs so I got a dozen chicks and set them up in another coop and divided the run so they could get to know the old girls. Needless to say seven were boys so they became Sunday dinners when they got bigger. Once the pullets began laying eggs the old hens started producing again, guess they didn't want to become dinner.