Filthy conditions at the Bi-County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association Inc. in Florence, Ky., caused U.S. Marshals to seize livestock and horse feed on July 20.

During a recent inspection of the Bi-County feed mill, Food and Drug Administration investigators discovered live and dead mice and evidence of bird activity throughout the facility. FDA laboratory analysis of samples collected during the inspection confirmed the presence of rodent urine, rodent feces, rodent hairs, and rodent-gnawed holes in bags, in and around food products.

Bi-County manufactures a local brand of feed and purchases and stores commercial feeds from other feed companies. The products are sold locally to farms and stables. The following list includes products sold by Bi-County that shouldn't be fed to livestock, however equestrians who purchased commercial feeds from other feed stores around the country need not worry.

15% Hog Grower & Finisher Feed
Agriflex Betonite
AIM Magnesium Oxide 56%
Barley Flakes
Beef, Land O’Lakes Steak Maker Grower
Bi-County 17% Layer Mash
Bi-County Coop Farm Ration
Bi-County Coop Ground Shell Corn
Bi-County Feed Oats
Bi-County Shell Corn
Bi-County Super 12 Plus
Bio-Cube Alfalfa Cubes
Calf Manna, Manna Pro
Cattle Mineral Triple Trust
Champions Choice Mix-N-Fine Salt
Champions Choice Trace Mineral Salt
Coastal Brand Poultry Shell
Country Acres Horse Feed
Crimped Oats
Diamond Crystal Pellets, water softener
Diamond Yeast Culture
Equine Merit Horse Balancer
Farmer’s Friend Vitamin A, D & E
Feed Grade Sodium Bicarbonate
Gran-I-Grit, Mt. Airy insoluble
Herd Maker Supreme
High Calcium Hydrated Lime
HomeGrown Game Bird & Poultry
Horsemans’s Edge Pelleted
Kemin Calcium Proprionate
Land O’ Lakes Calf Primer
Layena
Legends Grow & Perform
Legends Racing Textured
Legends Show & Pleasure
Limestone Calcium Carbonate
Merry Mixer Dehydrated Alfala
Pork Supreme LG Premix 100/75
Purina Chow Turkey Starter
Purina Omalene 100
Purina Pig Startena
Purina Start & Grow Sunfresh
Rabbit Pellets 25 lbs.
Reliance Pleasure 11T
Reliance Pleasure HP
S.S. Dairy 18% Supreme Dairy
Scratch Feed
Solvent Extracted Soybean Meal
Tizwhiz Train N Maintain
Triple Crown Complete
Triple Crown Growth
Triple Crown Senior Formula
Triple Trust 20-15 Red Calf Manna Milk Replacer
Triple Trust Dried Molasses
Triple Trust Feed Dicalium Phosphate
Triple Trust Horse Feed
Triple Trust Rabbit Pellets
Triple Trust Textured Goat Feed
Ultralyx Dried Distillers Grains

If you have purchased any of these products from this feed dealer, you should discard the feed and wash your hands thoroughly

Triple Crown officials reacted to the seizure by separating the company from the feed store.

“This feed dealer is a manufacturing facility who manufactures and sells his own store brands and purchases feeds from major feed manufacturers such as Southern States, Purina and Triple Crown,” said the press release. “This incident is in no way related to any Triple Crown manufacturing facility. Customers of Triple Crown can rest assured feeds manufactured under the Southern States/Triple Crown brands meet the highest manufacturing standards, and are not involved in any FDA action beyond the one dealer in Florence Ky."
   
Triple Crown products purchased from Bi-County may be returned to another Southern States/Triple Crown dealer for replacement.