Who uses Nutrena Nature wise Layer feed? - Page 4

I currently live in Mesa, AZ. It is easy to get Nutrena at any feed store here.I use it faithfully and it is super cheap. My only suggestion is that you do not let it get damp at all in the bag. It will mold quickly and kill your chicks before you have a chance to counter it. I guess that would be for any feed though. I also like to put a little Poly.Vi.Sol in their water once in a blue moon to give them a boost.

Im with you guys, its around 20$ for a bag of feed here in Metro Denver, it used to be about 3 dollars cheaper.

Anyways, from what I have seen, there is very little difference between purina and nutrena nutritinally speaking, you can go on their websites and it will give you the breakdown of nutrients and percentages of each one. I have never used purina and I have never had a problem. I dont honestly think that the more expnsive brand is always "better" for most things, and chicken feed is no different.

I have fed Purina flock raiser to all the chickens for over 3 years, over the last 3-4 weeks I have changed them over to Nutrena flock raiser. Within a week of starting the Nutrena I started getting less and less eggs. At first I thought it might be changing from crumbles to pellets, but they are eating the pellets with out any problems. I'm now down to less than half the eggs I was getting + I'm feeding twice as much oyster shell and over the last few days I've started getting shell-less eggs. I'm going back to Purina. Saving $2.00 on a bag of feed isn't worth the huge reduction in eggs and doubling the cost of oyster shell.

Would my roos be ok on the layer crumbles?