Nutrition especially for your Peas

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I need to bring this thread up, i'm curious about your feed results @frenchblackcopper , don't know if you have posted the results in another thread or not, i don't really like my adult birds feed, i used to use feed last year made for chicken, it has only 16% protein level, i asked a feed company here to make a specific feed for my peafowls with higher protein, the feed they made was 18.9% protein, soy and corn were the main ingredients, out of the 500 kilograms they made for me, 440 of them were soy and corn. My egg ratio wasn't the best with this feed, even so some pens done great this year, i was also feeding mealworms a day each week,grapes, bananas and peanuts. Each day they will get different treats of these, only the spalding and green birds were eating the peanuts. I'm thinking of adding fish meat to the feed, and reduce the soy.
 
@q8peafowl ,just when you think you have things figured out everything takes a dump on you. This year has been my worst as far as hatching and fertile eggs goes. It's not the peas fault and I do't think it was my feed,as it's the same ration I had used last year with way above average results compared to years previous. It was our weather here in central Illinois in June and early July. We had over 24"s of rain in June and over 12" the first two weeks of July.Only had about 6 sunny days in June total. The rest was cloudy and rain. For 3 days in a row my birds didn't come down off their perches because of steady rain. Then the pens had water sitting in them.It was a mess and of course now the weather pattern is back to what we expect here in late July,,hot and muggy. But also the males trains started dropping 2 weeks ago so breeding is over for 2015.

Corn is a low cost feedstuff but at only arounf 7-9% protein it's nowhere a complete cureall.Corn is great during very cold months for redily absorbed energy. My peas are picky at the feedbowl. Everything they need to eat for a balanced ration they leave behind. Such as alfalfa meal which I add for B vitamins since mine do not free range. Fish meal also was left behind because I think it tasted strange or the smell wasn't to their liking. I just got a fresh ton of feed this morning and we are trying alfalfa pellets in this mix.

I "upped" my trace minerals and vitamins 15% in this ration to help the males with the stress of losing their trains and feather regrowth. I have the answer to these finicky eaters and that is to completely pelletize their ration. It would first need to be ground fine then ran thru a pelletizer. After that is done the feed needs CLE or Molasses added to hide the smell of whats inside the pellets and if the peas can actually taste their feed the sweetness on the outside of each pellet should entice them to eat the feed.

Hubbard makes a 24% crumble but a ton is over $745,,a ton of my feed at current corn-soybean-milo-millet-black oil sunflower seed prices is just at $425 and this will last me for 3 months.

I have considered peanuts but whats available here is still inside the shell and I don't know if the peas would know to break the shell open to get the peanut inside but the protein level around 45% is high. I've looked into what the peas needs nutrition wise for many years,,called several top nutritionalists that works for diffrent manutacturers such as Nutrena and Hubbard and Kent but if the birds won't eat it all this is for nothing.
 
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frenchblackcopper said:
@q8peafowl ,just when you think you have things figured out everything takes a dump on you. This year has been my worst as far as hatching and fertile eggs goes. It's not the peas fault and I do't think it was my feed,as it's the same ration I had used last year with way above average results compared to years previous. It was our weather here in central Illinois in June and early July. We had over 24"s of rain in June and over 12" the first two weeks of July.Only had about 6 sunny days in June total. The rest was cloudy and rain. For 3 days in a row my birds didn't come down off their perches because of steady rain. Then the pens had water sitting in them.It was a mess and of course now the weather pattern is back to what we expect here in late July,,hot and muggy. But also the males trains started dropping 2 weeks ago so breeding is over for 2015.

Corn is a low cost feedstuff but at only arounf 7-9% protein it's nowhere a complete cureall.Corn is great during very cold months for redily absorbed energy. My peas are picky at the feedbowl. Everything they need to eat for a balanced ration they leave behind. Such as alfalfa meal which I add for B vitamins since mine do not free range. Fish meal also was left behind because I think it tasted strange or the smell wasn't to their liking. I just got a fresh ton of feed this morning and we are trying alfalfa pellets in this mix.

I "upped" my trace minerals and vitamins 15% in this ration to help the males with the stress of losing their trains and feather regrowth. I have the answer to these finicky eaters and that is to completely pelletize their ration. It would first need to be ground fine then ran thru a pelletizer. After that is done the feed needs CLE or Molasses added to hide the smell of whats inside the pellets and if the peas can actually taste their feed the sweetness on the outside of each pellet should entice them to eat the feed.

Hubbard makes a 24% crumble but a ton is over $745,,a ton of my feed at current corn-soybean-milo-millet-black oil sunflower seed prices is just at $425 and this will last me for 3 months.

I have considered peanuts but whats available here is still inside the shell and I don't know if the peas would know to break the shell open to get the peanut inside but the protein level around 45% is high. I've looked into what the peas needs nutrition wise for many years,,called several top nutritionalists that works for diffrent manutacturers such as Nutrena and Hubbard and Kent but if the birds won't eat it all this is for nothing.
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Sorry about your hard year, rain kills their breeding season, we only had two cloudy weeks since they start breeding this year and it was so bad on the egg ratio and fertility, its so bad that almost all June was cloudy there.

My pervious feed was costing more and its from famous brand, but i noticed the birds weren't eating it that much, and when enter their pen with the mealworms you will think they never ate anything before! They still don't like the new feed so much, but they are eating more of it.

I was thinking of adding a dry cat fish feed to their mix, the feed company will grind all the mix first and then they will make it pellets. Not sure if its okay to grind the cat dry food? I would think it will lose many minerals?

Peanuts here also came in their shells, its pain to get every single peanuts out of the shell, and most birds(spalding and greens the only birds eating peaunuts here) will not eat the peanuts if didn't crack it for them.
 
Is it better to feed peafowls boiled or scrambled eggs? I'm thinking of feeding them eggs once a week starting from next week, is it a good idea?
 
q8peafowl said:
Is it better to feed peafowls boiled or scrambled eggs? I'm thinking of feeding them eggs once a week starting from next week, is it a good idea?
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I don't think it matters if eggs are cooked or not. I hand feed all my chicks every day, a few days ago I ran out of scrambled eggs and used raw egg stirred into regular crumbles, they eat it like little pyranahs.
 
Sorry to jump in here as it's totally not my department, but I've found peas love sunflower seeds and will eat them in or out of shell, and if I understand correctly their protein level is comparable to peanuts.
 
KsKingBee said:
I don't think it matters if eggs are cooked or not. I hand feed all my chicks every day, a few days ago I ran out of scrambled eggs and used raw egg stirred into regular crumbles, they eat it like little pyranahs.
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Great, this would be easier, i was thinking of giving the adults though.
 
I read somewhere its better to cook the eggs so they don't learn to eat their own eggs, and it will be less mess to me when its cooked.
 
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new 2 pfowl said:
Sorry to jump in here as it's totally not my department, but I've found peas love sunflower seeds and will eat them in or out of shell, and if I understand correctly their protein level is comparable to peanuts.
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I have a large bag of peanuts, it seems it will never end lol.
 

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