Last summer (2017) we trialed standard organic soy feed vs. standard organic soy-free vs. ‘new’ Fertrell soy-free blend. The soy-free chickens, both the standard organic soy-free, and the ‘new’ Fertrell soy-free blend were pretty disappointing. You can read more about that 2017 trial. So we did it again. This time with just two different types […]
Feed Trial : Soy vs. Soy-free
Part of the set-up we have at Fertrell (the company who’s land we’re renting) is that they’re interested is running various trials on their products, to show how they improve performance. Every farmer should be running side-by-side, small scale trials on their own farms, to compare how different equipment, breeds, feeds, minerals/additives, animal spacing, (you […]
Soy Free Pigs
We’re going to start feeding our pigs grain with roasted soy in it. For the last 3 summers we’ve been supplementing our pastured pigs with soy-free grains. There’s some research that indicates soy increases phyto-estrogens, which can mess-up the animal and even human hormones. So why are we going to start feeding it to our […]