An increasing number of chicken farmers have published video testimonies wherein they state that their flock of chickens have produced little to no eggs in several months, with several of the farmers stating that commercial chicken feed is to blame.
Is there something new in the chicken feed?
"Y'all saw my video that kind of blew up about is it the chicken feed causing hens not to lay? I got an intense amount of hate on that feed. Intense. And it was worth it. You know why? Because it worked," a woman chicken farmer stated.
"[I] switched from commercial feed into local chicken feed. More eggs immediately. More than I've had in 6+ months," the woman said. "This has been literally six-plus months, since June, that I've had little-to-no eggs. With 100 chickens, At least 50 of them were laying age."
Who is heart of the problem with people not getting their chickens to lay eggs? #EggShortage pic.twitter.com/Kg8bhrMwTl
— Tom Warner (@haveuconsidered) January 26, 2023
"I was getting at least a couple dozen a day and that was before I had as many laying as I do now and then in June something just flipped and they stopped laying," she said. "I contributed it to heat and then fall came around and then I was like maybe t's shorter daylight hours? I did lights. I did everything. I tried everything."
"I stopped free-ranging them to see if they were hiding them," she added. "Then I saw so many posts about the Producers Pride feed, which is what I had switched to, and DuMOR feed in general."
"I went from getting just a couple eggs a day--stopped using Producers Pride and stated using a different DuMOR feed," the woman said. "I know they're both owned by Purina but I know for a fact that Producers Pride specifically, everybody was having problems with."
"Come to find out Purina had outsourced people in different companies to make the feed for them to supplement, which explains why some people had problems with Producers Pride and some people didn't," she added.
"You know how many eggs I got today? I got 17 eggs and I literally just switched the feed yesterday," she declared. "So yesterday and today they had a local feed mill feed which was assuming way better quality. It's a locally-sourced feed and I literally jumped to 17 eggs a day. It has been six months. I have not had 17 eggs since June."
"In nearly thirty-something years of raising chickens I have never gone without eggs, not even just one and since before Halloween I have not gotten a single egg until about a week ago and I switched the feed that I was giving. I am no longer am feeding chicken feed. I have switched my girls to goat feed. Steel cut oats. Black sunflower seeds and goat feed."
This is the second person I've seen who said their chickens stopped laying eggs. pic.twitter.com/ZtnffUkWYT
— D. Scott @eclipsethis2003 (@eclipsethis2003) January 26, 2023
"Chicken feed potentially tainted. I'm going to try this. I have seen a huge drop in egg lays over the last six months and my coop gets a mix of garden scraps, table scraps, and chicken feed. Will try to update in a few weeks," another chicken farm said in video shared on Twitter.
She too asserted that the feed was the cause of the lack of egg production by her hens.
Interesting take on the egg situation in the country.
This woman posits that it is the feed causing chickens to not lay eggs. And I don’t think she is wrong. 👀 pic.twitter.com/pXoQ6LiX43
— neil by mouth (@nbreavington) January 26, 2023
Indeed, the number of chicken farmers who testified to problems with egg production recently seems to indicate a trend.
"Something's wrong with the chicken food we're buying. My chickens have not laid an egg since July and nothing's changed," the man said. "According to a lot of people on TikTok, they are having the same problem."
Anyone Else Having Issues With Their Chickens Laying Eggs?
A comment mentioned goat feed being the solution.
If they’re doing something to chicken feed, imagine what they’re doing to our food!#CrimesAgainstHumanity #BillGatesBioTerrorist #farmers #eggflation #EggShortage pic.twitter.com/NWlxZIyBOZ
— Health Info (@Healthy4life000) January 23, 2023