Problems found for milo grain as feed????

Meal worms grow in manure?

I thought that meal worms need a grain based diet ????


Some species will grow in manure others prefer a largely grain based diet. The person that posted that conflated Lesser mealworms, which can be a pest with poultry operations, with Common mealworms, which people raise to feed their chickens. They are very different species and anyone with experience with either would not confuse the two.
 
I know I am resurrecting a really old thread here, but I am researching milo/sorghum as a feed myself. I had a thought on the conversation here about the high tannins in some types of milo. I haven't researched it for the chickens yet, but in my feed research for my rabbits (I am working on getting all my different kinds of animals completely GMO free) I have found that oak leaves, which are also high in tannins, are a great way to prevent coccidiosis in rabbits. Now you limit the amount you give them of course, because you don't want to overdo. But I know things like putting ACV with the mother in their drinking water will help prevent coccidiosis in both chickens and rabbits, so it seems reasonable that some tannins in feed might be beneficial for the poultry as well. Does anyone else have any thoughts on that?
 
I know that this is an old thread but thought I'd throw my 2 cents in. I feed my chickens milo. I mix it in with their scratch feed. They eat it first, picking it out before anything else. They love it. It doesn't seem to have hurt them any, I don't know if it is bird resisant or GMO. I buy it at my local feed mill which is small in 50Lb bags for $18.95 and it last about a month and a half in the winter. I have 30 chickens and 1 guinea. I have planted the seeds that I had left over and they did come up but I didn't plant them soon enough to have a good harvest.
 
I give my chickens some "scratch" as a treat in the am and pm. But the food they have in the hen house is a laying pellet I get from the feed store. My chickens have a "yard" about 40' x 60'. It is a electric fenced in area.

I know people used to feed corn, wheat, milo to their chickens. I expect lots of eggs from mine, so I give them the pellets too. They also need oyster shell for calcium for the egg shells, and granite grit for their gizzards.

Hope this helps.

I will say this: My husband feeds his quail corn & milo, but then they don't live very long lives, so whatever is cheapest is fine for them,

DonnaBelle
How do you introduce oyster shells and granite grit to chickens? Mixed with food ?
 
How do you introduce oyster shells and granite grit to chickens? Mixed with food ?
The person you quoted hasn't logged on in over a year. If you don't mind someone else answering...

It is best to offer oyster shell and granite grit separate from their food. That makes it easier for them to take what they need and easier to see how much they are taking.

Most people offer them in containers of some kind, some scatter them across the floor. I prefer containers.

Mine are orange juice bottles with a 2" circle cut out of the side of each. I made a wooden frame out of small pieces of wood so I could screw them into the side of the coop.

Some people use cups designed for hanging on the sides of rabbit or hamster cages. Some have ceramic bowls (like for rabbits) on the floor or on a stand of some kind.

The chickens don't usually care how it is offered.

If it is where rain might fall in it, you probably want to drill some drain holes in the bottom.
 
The person you quoted hasn't logged on in over a year. If you don't mind someone else answering...

It is best to offer oyster shell and granite grit separate from their food. That makes it easier for them to take what they need and easier to see how much they are taking.

Most people offer them in containers of some kind, some scatter them across the floor. I prefer containers.

Mine are orange juice bottles with a 2" circle cut out of the side of each. I made a wooden frame out of small pieces of wood so I could screw them into the side of the coop.

Some people use cups designed for hanging on the sides of rabbit or hamster cages. Some have ceramic bowls (like for rabbits) on the floor or on a stand of some kind.

The chickens don't usually care how it is offered.

If it is where rain might fall in it, you probably want to drill some drain holes in the bottom.
Thank you for answering.
 

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