{"id":134,"date":"2009-03-21T15:24:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T22:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-04-06T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T19:31:03","slug":"poultry-ration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/poultry-ration\/","title":{"rendered":"Poultry Ration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took some time to get everything right; however, we are pleased as can be that we will receive our first shipment of our custom mixed poultry ration next week. \u00a0We had high hopes of coming out a bit cheaper; however, it was not to be. \u00a0Giant feed companies can still buy ingredients from around the world, mix in Minneapolis (soybean capital) send it through national distribution channels, place on the shelves at your favorite feed store and still come out cheaper than we can make it locally with as many local ingredients as possible. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So it goes&#8230;as we felt the cost:benefit ratio still came out in our favor. \u00a0For one primary reason &#8211; we know what is in it!! \u00a0Commercial feed ingredients sound identical\u00a0to the chemical tongue twisters on the back of a pack of Twinkies. \u00a0In addition, pasture raised poultry doesn&#8217;t require every little mineral or vitamin feed to them through the trough. \u00a0They get lots of goodies from the bugs, dirt and grass.<\/p>\n<p>Our ration is pretty straight forward:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Corn<\/li>\n<li>Soybeans<\/li>\n<li>Oats<\/li>\n<li>Alfalfa<\/li>\n<li>Fish Meal<\/li>\n<li>Oyster shells<\/li>\n<li>Organic minerals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We try to keep everything &#8216;chunky&#8217; rather than ground up and then reassembled into pellets or crumble. \u00a0We cannot wait &#8211; this is a critical component of the farm and we were concerned that we wouldn&#8217;t be able to get this done locally. \u00a0I&#8217;ll post more as we transition the flock to this new common sense ration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img00218.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-144\" title=\"img00218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img00218-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img00218\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img00218-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img00218-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img00218.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took some time to get everything right; however, we are pleased as can be that we will receive our first shipment of our custom mixed poultry ration next week. \u00a0We had high hopes of coming out a bit cheaper; however, it was not to be. \u00a0Giant feed companies can still buy ingredients from around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}