Since I stopped raising puppies and turned to chickens, my trips to Tractor Supply have been cut in half. Grass is still plentiful enough that I don't need sheep feed or horse feed yet, and the days of buying a pallet of dog food are gone. I still go weekly and pick up a bag of Purina Layena pellets for the chickens and a 50 pound bag of feed for the sheep dogs. I could probably just go once a month, but I like the store and know the workers there.
Tractor Supply is for the small farm crowd. It has a good selection of feed, particularly for horses, and I noticed it has been increasing its dog and pet supplies. The store has small tires for lawn tractors and wagons and a decent inventory of hardware and lawn/garden supplies, jeans and shirts, animal medicines, fencing, small farm implements and feed supplies.
Tractor Supply's advertisement states, it has "the stuff you need out here". And it does. When I have the time, I walk the aisles to see all the cool stuff, like pond water treatment, wild critter traps and trailer hitches. Right now the featured items are giant barn fans. The store is like a Best Buy for farmers.
Last week I found a new item for the chickens, the Flock Block, made by Purina. It is a block of pressed chicken feed and supplements, and my chickens love it. They peck, peck, peck at it and get their calcium and grit quota for good egg production. Salt and mineral blocks for cattle and horses have been around ever since I can remember, but this is the first block for chickens. It is a clever idea with a catchy name and relects the growing trend of pasture and free-range chickens.
Wish I would have thought of it.
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