Organic Certified Whole Grain fermented chicken feed No Methionine Lysine Synthetic amino acids
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Redland.Farm new Beyond Organic feeding system for poultry & swine using organic certified fermented whole grains: peas, oats, barley & oats.
All of our poultry are pastured in mobile pens their first 8-12 months, until they are full size, to minimize predation from birds of prey.
We are not concerned about a few less eggs and think loss will be minimal as our poultry get plenty of bugs and forage from pasture that the factory farmed "Organic" poultry lack. Not to mention "Vegetarian only feed" is unnatural for poultry.
"The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) has determined that the loss of the use of Methionine, at this time, would disrupt the well-established organic poultry market and cause substantial economic harm to organic poultry operations. To prevent disruption to the market, while the organic feed sector creates sufficient supplies of wholly natural substitute products, the NOSB has recommended extending the allowed use of Methionine in poultry production until 2012 at the following maximum levels of synthetic methionine per ton in the feed ration: Laying chickens - 4 pounds per ton; Broiler chickens - 5 pounds per ton; and Turkeys and all other poultry - 6 pounds per ton."
https://www.federalregister.gov/regulations/0581-AD04/national-organic-program-amendments-to-the-national-list-methionine-nop-10-0051
http://articles.extension.org/pages/69042/synthetic-methionine-and-organic-poultry-diets
http://www.fertrell.com/poultrynutribalancer.htm