on Lonira
From Whitecourt
East on Hwy 43 15km
Turn Left on lonira Rd
3.4 km turn right on Township 592
1.6 km turn left on RR 103
Go to second approach to the left
Continue to shop!! From Mayerthorpe
Drive west on 43 24 km turn right on Lonira RD
3.4 km turn right on township 592
1.6 km turn left on RR 103
2nd approach on left and continue to shop!!
This is another of the horse feed I carry at the feed store….it is amazing feed!!!
CLIENT TESTIMONIAL!! This one blows my mind, only 4 days after starting on the PERFECT PERFORMANCE equine feed, FLAX OIL, and ALOE VERA JUICE this guy is already looking fabulous. We can’t wait to see what the rest of the two weeks brings him. Truly amazing what the proper nutrition can do for our horses ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aurora Ag
Farmstead Life
Had people ask what the Calcium-Grit looked like. $20 a 22 kg bag. I put some in my coop and my girls like it! Use it to keep your shells hard.
Copies from another supplier of our feed at the feed store
“I have seen the Perfect Performance do so many great things for my horses. It’s milled feed, and so my horses are able to absorb the nutrients more efficiently. It’s also soy free, and I can feed it alone or with any of our supplements. I really love to watch how my horses thrive on it.”
Caitlyn Potts
Another happy customer. This handsome man had his mom pick up a few hens so they could have their eggs in the morning! Well he got his 1st eggs! Less than 24 hours later!
He was EGG-STATIC!
Only 4 ladies left for 2022. Let me know if you are interested in young layers.
Another happy hen purchaser. Genevieve 7 is loving that she can finally collect eggs for her family. Congratulations!
Last POL hen order. Picking up this Saturday. If you want some POL hens let me know my messanger or post below so I don’t miss you. $18 a hen unless I deliver then $20. These are the last hens of 2022. This is the same group of ladies as before.
The company is coming thru spruce so anyone in that area can have delivery…or drayton Valley area as well.
🐓 🥚 = 🍳 yummy! 
BACK IN STOCK
Looking for Poultry Shrink bags. I have 3 left of the each pack.
50 package of XL $55
25 package of XL $29
Copies from another post Heather Z posted but I would like to try this….any of my friends on this page do this? How was it?
Fermented feed
It’s no secret that our chickens are darn spoiled. As beloved pets that also happen to provide us fresh eggs to eat, giving them top-notch nutrition and care is high on our priority list! One of the many special things we do for them is ferment their chicken feed. If you know us, that shouldn’t come as a surprise either! Just like human food, fermented chicken feed packs a long list of health benefits.
Lacto-fermentation occurs when beneficial bacteria (lactobacillus) that is naturally found in the environment (like in soil, on vegetables, or your chicken feed grains) interacts with food in the right controlled environment. To ferment chicken feed, that controlled environment is as simple as a mason jar, bucket, or large glass bowl with water. The lactobacillus converts starch and sugar in the food into lactic acid bacteria (LAB). This encourages the formation of natural probiotics, lowers pH, and prevents growth of harmful bacteria in the feed. Healthy yeasts are also present in “wet mash” grain mixtures such as a fermented chicken feed.
Why ferment chicken feed?
There are a number of reasons to feed your flock fermented chicken feed, either regularly or at least on occasion. In a nutshell (uh… I mean eggshell) it can help improve their digestion, absorption of nutrients, and overall health by adding probiotics to their diet. Even more, it is a very efficient way to feed your flock! Fermenting chicken feed can reduce the amount of grains needed to keep your flock full – cutting costs for you. Last but not least, it can even lead to better egg quality!
HEALTH BENEFITS OF FERMENTED CHICKEN FEED
1) Increased Digestion and Nutrient Absorption
The process of soaking chicken feed grains makes them easier to digest. In the most obvious way, the softened feed is more gentle on the stomach – or in a chicken’s case, their crop and gizzard. Yet there’s more to it than that! All grains, seeds, nuts, beans and other legumes contain something called phytic acid and other enzyme inhibitors. Phytic acid can impair the absorption of certain nutrients and minerals, and is therefore often referred to as an “anti-nutrient”.
However, the process of soaking, sprouting, and/or fermenting grains and legumes vastly reduces the phytic acid content – thus makes it easier for chickens to utilize all the good nutrients they’re consuming! That is one reason we love to sprout seeds grains for our chickens too, including alfalfa, barley, corn, sunflower seeds and more. Last but not least, fermentation has also been shown to enhance the content of certain vitamins in foods, such as Vitamin B.
2) Added Probiotics and Immune Health
As lactic acid bacteria work to ferment chicken feed, beneficial bacteria populations bloom! The resulting probiotics are stellar for digestion, immunity, and improved gut health. Guy health is directly related to total body health.
Studies that animals who receive a steady intake of probiotics through fermented feed have a more robust immune system than those on a standard dry feed diet. Studies also found that the levels of lactic acid bacteria in fermented chicken feeds lowers the pH of chickens intestines enough to ward off acid-sensitive bacteria like E.Coli and Salmonella. Meaning, chickens consuming fermented feed are less likely to develop infections and other diseases, and live longer, less complicated lives. For you, that means less stress, vet bills, and also healthier eggs!
3) Better Quality Eggs
Chickens that were fed fermented chicken feed showed increased egg weight, shell thickness, and shell stiffness over chickens on dry food. When chickens have nice firm eggshells, they’re far less likely to have issues with laying soft-shell eggs or becoming egg-bound; both of which can be life-threatening!
Also, keep in mind that what goes into your hens also goes into their eggs. If they receive superior nourishment (including eating fermented feed), the eggs laid for you will be supremely nutritious in return. That is why pasture-raised and backyard chicken egg yolks are so deeply golden compared to their factory farm counterparts.
(4) More Bang For Your Buck
Okay, this isn’t exactly a ‘health benefit’ per se… but valuable nonetheless! As chicken feed grain soaks in water to ferment, it also expands in volume – so your birds will get full faster. They aren’t being cheated out of anything in the process though, like filling up on junk food. On the other hand, they’re getting more nutrients than ever! That said, fermenting chicken feed is an inexpensive way to improve the nutritional value of basic dry feed while also consuming less of it.
When and How Much to Feed Chickens Fermented Food
How often you decide to feed your flock fermented chicken feed is totally up to you! while others do it only as a periodic treat. While it is very easy to do, fermenting feed admittedly takes a couple extra steps than simply leaving out a large feeder of dry grain for the week.
Depending on schedules, you can try to make a batch at least once or twice per week. one “batch” is two days worth of fermented feed – about four days per week. However, when chickens are moulting, stressed, or seem a little under the weather. They need all the extra nutritional support they can get during those times.
Offer about the same amount of fermented chicken feed as you would their normal food. Check the serving recommendation on your feed. Again, because fermented chicken feed may keep them more satiated and also expands slightly in volume after soaking, they may eat slightly less than usual. See what your flock will consume and adjust as needed.
HOW TO MAKE FERMENTED CHICKEN FEED
Step 1: Mix Feed & Water
Find a suitable container to ferment the feed in. Great examples include a large glass jar, bowl, or bucket. Because fermentation makes the feed slightly acidic, it is best to choose glass, ceramic, or BPA-free plastic. It should be large enough to hold a day or two worth of feed for your flock, plus extra room for water, stirring, and expansion.
Add enough chicken feed to the container for one or two daily servings for your flock. We usually ferment two cups of feed for the silkies and about 8 cups for the layers - enough for two days. You can ferment crumble, pellets, or whole grain chicken feed (though grain feed holds up the best; the others expand more and get a bit mushy). You can even ferment scratch as a treat, though it shouldn’t replace their layer feed.
Now, pour water over the top of the feed. Add enough so that the feed is fully submerged and has a couple inches of room to expand. Chlorinated water may inhibit healthy fermentation. If needed, simply leave a glass of city tap water out at room temperature overnight to allow the chlorine to dissipate.
Step 2: Let It Ferment
Cover the top of the container with a loose-fitting lid, plate, or other makeshift lid. It doesn’t need to be air tight! The idea is to prevent drifting mold spores from floating in, but also allow the fermentation gasses to escape.
Set the container in a location with moderate temperatures for three to four days to ferment. We leave ours on the counter. Check and stir it each day. Add additional water if the feed has absorbed it all.
By day or two or three, you should see small bubbles on the surface and/or within the feed mixture. That is a sign that lactobacillus is hard at work! It should smell slightly tangy, sour, and sweet – similar to yogurt or yeast. Ours smells a tad fishy too, only because the feed has kelp meal in it. The liquid will also get increasingly cloudy. If it develops mold or putrid odors, do not feed it to them!
While fermented chicken feed will be effectively preserved (due to the low pH) and safe to consume beyond day three or four, it gets more sour the longer it sits. Therefore, it can become less palatable for your spoiled chicken’s taste buds.
Step 3: Drain and Feed
Chow time! If the fermented chicken feed hasn’t absorbed all of the water, you can either drain it off into the bushes, or reserve the liquid to jump start a new batch! The lactic acid bacteria in the “brine” will be happy to feed on more fresh grains, and can actually put the next batch about a day ahead of schedule.
Speaking of schedules, you’ll need to figure out your own little fermented feed groove. Since it takes a few days to ferment, some folks start staggered batches every day or two (date the containers) in order to have fermented feed available at all times. Or, you could start one batch after another and not provide fermented feed every day.
Note that the feed will spoil faster when it is no longer submerged in its liquid “bath”. Therefore, if you ferment a hefty amount to feed a larger flock over the course of two days, simply scoop out half on day three and then drain/use the rest on day four. If they gobble it up on both days, that is great!
Look Everybody!!!! Hens for $18 because we are having a hen sale! Buy one …buy many! And do you know I have feed here as well.
These are beautiful Bovan Brown and amazing layers. Coops are easy and quick to build. Get them for the summer and eat them this fall….if your not 😍 in love.
You will have an egg a day and in no time a little hen pays her way.
Love my Hennifers!!!!
Sheep/Lamb Supplment. Super excited to have this in my feed store and in stock!
It has the chart on lamb grower, finisher and breeder/lactating ewe. An amazing product for anyone wanting to make some fabulous lambs or breeding ewes. All my feeds are locally sourced.
$35 a bag for 20 kg. Sale 3 bags for $90
Did you know my little feed store carries Black Soldier Fly Larvae. Tons of Protein and your Chickens will go crazy for them! I have 1 lb bags for $13.00 and 5 lb bags for $50. ❤️ your hens! 🥚❤️ 🐓
A Fabulous Day! Sam and I were able to attend a local horse show with some of our dearest friends. Hauled by my friend, lent a horse by my other friend, support for everyone and a SUPER day!
I donated a bag of horse feed to the silent auction and it was purchased by Janessa Underwood! Thank you. And for your horse!
Just stopped at my neighbour’s. She has peppers and tomatoes for your garden. If you come out for feed she is close. Cristy Altona. $5 a plant fill you garden and deck!!!!
Great information for all my new chicken families.
Did you know we stock Rabbit, Mini/Kune Pig feed, Hog Grower/Finisher and Goat Supplement! Today I will have Lamb Supplement as well for the store.
Well look what I found on sale at Princess Auto. A beautiful little coop for some family backyard hens! I still have 13 lovely hens looking for a home. Pm me if you are interested!
So many happy customers! ❤️ 🐓 and 🥚
Contest time! Post a photo of your new hens from the Funny Farm and get a chance to win a $20 credit to the store. I will do a draw from all qualified enteries. You must like my page and share it. Contest will close June 6th. Post photo below. I do have a few photos sent to me that I will add.
Jen are coming this Friday, May 27th!!!!
Anyone Interested in 20 week old Point of Lay Hens? I need pre-payment and pick up within a day once date is confirmed. You will need to bring your own crates to take your ladies home.
$22.00 a hen.
I would like approx 200 orders. I will do a few POL orders a year.
Information on the young POL hens:
Vaccination & Barn Practices Information:
We vaccinate for strains of Newcastle disease and Bronchitis virus, mixed together. We vaccinate for A.E. (Avian encephalomyelitis) also known as Tremors. And the chicks are vaccinated for Mareks disease at the hatchery. We also perform blood work testing to check antibodies in our pullets to ensure the healthiest birds possible. It is standard practice for the hatcher to laser beak trim all hens. This is a practice for hens going into a commercial setting, is painless for the hens, and does not impact their health or productivity. Our hens are also tested for salmonella prior to selling them, our barn tests multiple times a year as a standard practice.
100% Hen Guarantee
Farmstead Brown
~Pullets~
Meet our Famous, Top-Selling Lay Hens. The Farmstead Brown is known to be docile, hardy, and extremely easy to work with, making them an excellent first-time chicken owner breed of choice. They are known for their prolific laying and do well in backyard flocks, pastured, and egg operations. The Farmstead Brown lays an excellent quality, beautiful brown shelled eggs, with a lay rate upto 300/yr.
At pick-up hens are just starting to lay, after a brief adjustment period to your farm, with proper care and quality feed, they will lay your family or customers lots of beautiful brown eggs.
~ AGE AT PICK-UP: 18 to 22 Weeks
~ SHELL COLOR: MEDIUM BROWN
~ LAY RATE: 300/YR
~ SEXED: 100% HEN GUARANTEE
Not only do I have amazing feed for so many of your critters! I also have some fantastic items that make you feel like it’s spring! These were made by Pontiac Brown and I will be bring these to Mayerthorpe Ag. Society next week and the Fair and Rodeo.
Check-out our Vistors posts and you can get $5.00 off your next order if you ad one!
Copied from Shauna Cole the fabulous lady who has spearheaded the equine feed for our store. We love all the great feedback I have received on this feed!
This is a post to show appreciation to the whole team that helped get the Perfect Performance and Cool-Care feed to become reality.
This has been a mission of mine for 7 years, trying to assemble a team that has all the same values and care for detail was not an easy task! Having the whole crew on the same page with NO SOY, NO BEET PULP, NO CHEMICALS, NO CORN, PELLET FREE and a big one for me LOCALLY SOURCED was the most important thing in the first steps of this venture.
Farmstead Life - Aurora Ag assembled this rockstar team and made my vision happen. So what we are left with now is a feed that is not comparable too anything else anywhere! And the Mill that we have entrusted with this has the best quality control of anything I have seen ( more businesses should take note!)
We have entrusted only distributors that share the same high standards of loyalty and care for ensuring all horses have access too affordable top quality Nutrition.
Cool Care- 22 kg $40.00
1 Bag = 48/days/horse. 83 cents a day
Perfect Performance 22kg $37.00
1 bag = 48/days/horse 77 cents a day
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Welcome to “McNaughton Funny Farm Feed and Tack” with Aurora Ag. will be making a page and posting some fabulous information and all sorts of surprises for our newest feed store in Whitecourt/Mayerthope area. I have been looking for my newest adventure and here it is.
All Farmstead Feed is locally sourced, small batches and fresh milled. I have 100% Soy free feeds such as 17% Layer, chick Starter, and supplement so you can add your own grains. Scratch Mix, Calcium-Grit, Pullet Grower and an All Flock Feed.
Did I mention Rabbit, mini Pig, Hog Grower, Goat Supplement, and Horse Feed!
In stock the famous “Original” feeds I have Chick Starter/ Turkey and Gamebird starter/ and Original Layer.
Then a treat…Black Soldier Fly Larvae!
More to come!
I will also be bringing in POL young laying hens. Docile, Hardy and prolific layers. These girls have the beautiful brown shelled eggs!
Barry, Samantha, and Cara McNaughton
Welcome to “McNaughton Funny Farm Feeds” with Aurora Ag. will be making a page and posting some fabulous information and all sorts of surprises for our newest feed store in Whitecourt/Mayerthope area. I have been looking for my newest adventure and here it is. I will have a page to share right away but and so excited to share the news.
All Farmstead Feed is locally sourced, small batches and fresh milled. I have 100% Soy free feeds such as 17% Layer, chick Starter, and supplement so you can add your own grains. Scratch Mix, Calcium-Grit, Pullet Grower and an All Flock Feed.
Did I mention Rabbit, mini Pig, Hog Grower, Goat Supplement, and Horse Feed!
In stock the famous “Original” feeds I have Chick Starter/ Turkey and Gamebird starter/ and Original Layer.
Then a treat…Black Soldier Fly Larvae!
More to come!
I will also be bringing in POL young laying hens. Docile, Hardy and prolific layers. These girls have the beautiful brown shelled eggs!
Barry, Samantha, and Cara McNaughton
Blue Ridge, AB
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