What is an "organic" chicken?

[quadcam79]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

Your story could be as easy as this:

Our hens are rasied in a free range environment and feed quality rations designed for laying hens. We don't use antibiotics in our feeds unless our birds are sick, which rarely occurs. Our eggs are collected daily by all members of our family and lovingly cleaned a packeaged for the enjoyment of your family.


Good luck,

Jim

I like that...now all you need a bartles and james on the old wrap around porch whittlin some wood, drinkin lemonade and talking about how things were back in the day.

I guess when we start selling eggs and meat chicken. I'll self certify it "Farm Fresh" the grocery store aint got nothin on that.​

 

[NS2A]

My chickens are fed the corn feed from the feed mill, table scraps and whatever else they can find around my place that hasn't been sprayed or fertilized for over 3 years. Yeah I have some pressure treated posts, but it's mostly metal.

I'd trust my eggs and meat chickens (and quite frankly most everyone on this boards chickens) over "organic" stuff in the big chain stores.

Hey, now even Johnson and johnson is claiming their cleaning products have always been organic, oh wait, I mean "green".

Green. Organic. What's the difference?

Ah, the confusion...

 

[eggchicken master]

you dont really have to buy certified organic feed you just have to make sure that you dont use chemicals.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

it's all a bunch of hype.

 

[schmism]

I say i feed standard laying scratch. They get to free range the property and durring the summer they eat about 1/4 the bagged scratch as they do in the winter because they scratch up and eat so many natural bugs/grass in the yard. I recycle there own egg shells back to them for calcium (which they love).

I feel comfortable saying mine are as much "organic" as "organic" ones you would buy in the store.

(i admit to not reading all the responses)

do the store bought organic eggs, are they required to be washed?

 

[NS2A]

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I am pretty sure they are. See, the only "green" the companies care about is the money...

 

[ZykloniaDark-GothikRanchr]

I have also noticed that the "organic" egg producers make a big deal about their chickens being 100% VEGETARIAN. I don't know about you, but my chickens would be one ticked off bunch of cluckers if they couldn't eat their daily intake of bugs...sorry to say, but bugs are protein, and living creatures, therefore, NOT vegetarian!! Can you imagine how miserable these vegetarian chickens would have to be??un