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Raising Gamebirds => Supplier Feedback => Topic started by: PSUQuailer on December 29, 2007, 04:56:27 PM
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I was thinking of switching my birds over to the Purina line of food. Does anybody else use it? Do you see a difference in the birds? Any replies you be greatly appreciated j44
Ryan S.
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Good feed like using the starter it does not need to be ground up for quail
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I too am pleased with it.
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Thank you for the replies i guess my birds are getting something new.
Ryan S.
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Ryan, If you check around with the purina sellers they may have the buy 2 get 1 free even though the feed is pricy but good feed. The guy here that just opened 1 up here in this little town we gotta be rich here to afford the $14.50 a bag but with the coupons saves a lot. He's giving them to me to get our business from the other feed store I get feed from is from Bryant Grain co. in Aledo, Tx. has great 28% gamebird crumbles starter too at about $11 a bag. might check it out too. Thanks, and GOD BLESS, Tommy
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Yeah it is a little more but only like a $1.50. If the feed is better for the birds then i don't have a problem feeding them this, since they will hopefully bring me in some money. The feed i buy right now is $10.25+tax a bag and the Purina food at the local mill is $11.25 for Maintenance and $11.75 for Breeder.
Ryan S.
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I havent tried their gamebird feeds, but the Trout Chow and other fish feeds are excellent. I dont buy the dogfoods because of all the stuff in it dogs shouldnt eat. Soy, corn etc.
My quail get a premium wild bird seed mix, very little corn in it and thats half ground, I feed it with greens, and starchy veggies, they love acorn squash nuked in the microwave for a few mins, will clean up a good sized chunk in several days, I am planting a lot more greens this year and probably also a deep tray in the house for winter greens for the breeders.
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purina has done the best for me .havnt lost but a very few.feathers them out really well.i use their layena on my breeders an starena on my babys
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I have to correct myself on the Purina dog feeds,
their Performance Dog is a quality dog food and I know a very good Lab kennel that now swears by it, I checked a label and it does have good ingredients with a minimum of filler crap.
FWIW.
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J.L.
Above post you mentioned a deep tray for indoor winter greens, What greens, Grow globe bulb? Just wondering as I would like to grow some greens. The local grocer (Safeway) has a NEW policy of not giving there out dated produce anymore, they tell me it is now composted, too many thefts. s176
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Hi Labman
they are trays for holding transplant seedlings in the spring, most greenhouses have a variation, I started both lettuce(leaf) and grass in them plus a sprinking of small seeds from the bird seed, put them on my deep window sills facing south, with one shoplite over them, the same shoplites work fine on my Orchids in the dining rm windows, when its about 6" high I take out portions and put in the cages, so far they clean it up in a couple days. Deep is a misnomer as its only about 3.5" deep, but enough to get a good root system for the seedlings. They clean up all the greens and some of the roots, the rest gets thrown on the compost pile. I've got two of the trays working, so far so good.
My IGA store is still saving for me but even if I cant use it I take it and put the excess out front for the doves and other wild birds, that spot will be well composted by spring. They dont have anyone else using it or I'd split it with them. Next winter chickens will be using a lot of it.
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well we use purina here and it has been great.we get feed in bulk.we just got a load of 19% flight conditioner and it was 276 a ton.we get 3 ton at once.we feed our dogs nothing but purina pro plan also.now that is expensive but worth it. but no complaints about purina they mix whatever we need whether it is medication for the quail or pheasants.
Lenny
Sugar Run Gamebirds
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Thanks Jake'
I have lettuce seeds and already have the trays from last years annuals, still looking for lemon grass. I have some of the Cat grass seed I will try that also. 006
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i will agree that they have really good feeds - almost a year ago i visited one of their research facilities and was really amazed at what they did and the time invested. what i was not so happy about though was when i got intouch with a man there in charge of the "gamebird feeds" told him i had about 300-400 birds and was interested in changing to their feed as i was anticipating on growing in size - so i gave him my number and he said he would get back with me in a week or so...... 6 months later i had my friend call the man and tell him he raised about 10,000 birds a year and was interested in changing to their feeds and asked for him to get him some prices and get back with him.... the man called him back 2 days later......
yes i raise ALOT more than 400 birds
my friend does not raise so many he is just gettin started
but the reason i did this was to see how they valued their customers no matter how large or small -- but seems to me they don't care so much about the small guys -
i informed my sales rep in my area of this and she was not to please about how the man had handled this
so i will continue to use a blend through ADM for my gamebirds
i say they have good feeds because we do feed some of out horses their feeds such as equine senior and junior and they work amazing
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It's a bit more expensive in my area but I use it anyway because it is very good quality feed.
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We have been using Purina for a couple moths now and really like what we are seeing in the birds. They seem to be gaining a little more weight and energy. We used to get ADM pen pal feed but like the Purina better. I will have to say that ADM has a good customer relations. We got two bags that was nothing but powder and they replaced them free of charge. j45
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HI
For those of you with a Land O'Lakes Co-Op near by. Purina Feed LLC makes the Land O'Lakes Honor Country Flock Turkey/Pheasant feeds. It is plus or minus a tenth or two of a percent of the straight Purina feed, works just as well and is only $9.95/bag for the 30% Starter and the 23% Starter/grower. I paid $8.95 for the 20% conditioner. They gave me a bit of a break on the 20% because it was a last fall left over they wanted to move.
I just stocked up yesterday. Tried to beat the preseason rush.
For those of you feeding the Pro Plan Dog foods. According to my vet the chicken & rice adult with the 26% protien & 16% fat has 2% less digestable protien because of less fillers. And at $5.00 bag less feeding 4 dogs that adds up quick.
Kind of interesting to talk with a vet and compare advertised crude protien to actual digestable protien.
Jerome
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I haven't tried Purina gamebird feed. we have blue seal in this area.and have no problems at all. great quality good price. as for dog food its Purina all the way. Purina 1 and Purina hi pro . and for the little ones its Purina puppy chow. is there another dog food company out there ? :grin: there must be because some one had some trouble last year. :evil:
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is there another dog food company out there ? there must be because some one had some trouble last year.
Careful Purina was in on that.. There canned foods and anything that made gravy when water was added were the major ones. They sent out 4 different recall notices to those of us registered thru the pro plan programs.
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chit lab. I did not know that. when the whole thing broke out. I checked the website with the lists. and I also checked Purina's website. the food we were using was not listed. the only thing I saw on the Purina site was as you stated some canned food and some of the snack type stuff. as for the pro plan I tried to register but I only have one breeding pair of dogs and the us site would not let me register.
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Bird Dog
It wasn't a big deal for Purina. If you looked it up you know it was only one production plant that makes food for multiple venders. Purinas known affecteds were limited most of the Purina recals were a cover thier own @$$ thing.
Since they had an issue with the canned foods and the dry that made gravy when you added water and the zipper bag treats they recalled everything that came from that plant.
The notices they kept sending were just updated batch numbers and production dates as the known affected imported grain usage dates expanded. From what I know it was the lower end foods with all the grain fillers that were affected.
I dont remember seeing a recall on Pro-Plan or Purina one. I fed Pro Plan Performance right threw the entire deal. I feed a bag a week to my small kennel full. I would think if Pro-Plan had an issue I would have found it.
Peace,
Jerome
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thats what i thought. I was not worried about the Purina food . I did worry about the treat stuff we were buying at the local Sam's club. but it turned out allright too.
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For those of you with a Land O'Lakes Co-Op near by. Purina Feed LLC makes the Land O'Lakes Honor Country Flock Turkey/Pheasant feeds. It is plus or minus a tenth or two of a percent of the straight Purina feed, works just as well and is only $9.95/bag for the 30%
I just got back from the feed store here (Hattiesburg, MS) and got some of the Honor Country Flock Turkey & Quail Starter 30% and it was $13.20 per bag. Sounds like you got a good deal.
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I like it because it is not a bunch of dust and power I bought 20 bags of the gambird breeder yesterday and it was 14.00 per bag . And I use there dog food because my dogs love it and you get a 50lb. bag.
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I bought some Purina Gamebird Layena for $12.50 a bag and some Startena for $13.50 plus some bags that had a tear or hole for $10 .
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I bought some Purina Gamebird Layena for $12.50 a bag and some Startena for $13.50 plus some bags that had a tear or hole for $10 .
That's great, as long as mice didn't cause the hole! I found droppings inside the range feeder at the bird dog club, yesterday.
Is the river coming back up? Did your buddy float home, yet?
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There is no mice holes. Just some tears from rough handling. Yes the rivers are still high and my buddy was able to get home.