MountainFireflyAcres
In the Brooder
Is there not anyone willing to make a Chicken Feed Comparison Chart? I can look up dog food and cat food comparison charts all day long that are very informative in describing the different brands and what they contain and that lists in detail what to look for in the food and what to watch out for, ie the good and bad ingredients and why they are good and bad and even rankings of the brands out there from good to bad.
I have often looked up "best chicken feed brand" and "chicken feed comparison chart" and many variations of the wording and still I don't come up with much. There is one chart, the only chart that I found that compares the brands in respect to nutritional qualities. its titled "PoultryDVM: Poultry Feeds Comparison Lookup Tool" and while its the best I have found, I give much credit to the people that made it, very high credit in fact, but it still doesn't list ingredient comparisons or explain what to look for or look out for, etc.
I wish I knew the differences as to what ranks where so I could just scan the bags and determine if its a quality food or a mediocre one or somewhere in between like I can dog and cat food. It used to be my job at one point in my life to point these things out to people for dog and cat owners. Poultry feed is a completely different ball game and I have tried but have zero understanding due to the limited amount of writing on the subject.
I understand organic would be ideal and that their are many good brands and some ranking comparisons on them, but for those of us that planned to feed these until they realized how much chickens actually eat and the price of organic feed vs conventional I leave out organic in my thoughts on this.
The postings I see on this forum usually involve Purina vs blue seal vs southern states vs etc etc with people saying their own preferences without hardly any real facts to verify why one is better then the other.
Is there anyone out there that is knowledgeable enough on feed to be able to point out what to look for and why? not simply , no soy or no corn because I feed soy free? So that the rest of us not in the know can look at a bag and say ok, the top ingredient's are this and this and this which would make this pretty good or better yet make a chart or spread sheet?
-Brian
I have often looked up "best chicken feed brand" and "chicken feed comparison chart" and many variations of the wording and still I don't come up with much. There is one chart, the only chart that I found that compares the brands in respect to nutritional qualities. its titled "PoultryDVM: Poultry Feeds Comparison Lookup Tool" and while its the best I have found, I give much credit to the people that made it, very high credit in fact, but it still doesn't list ingredient comparisons or explain what to look for or look out for, etc.
I wish I knew the differences as to what ranks where so I could just scan the bags and determine if its a quality food or a mediocre one or somewhere in between like I can dog and cat food. It used to be my job at one point in my life to point these things out to people for dog and cat owners. Poultry feed is a completely different ball game and I have tried but have zero understanding due to the limited amount of writing on the subject.
I understand organic would be ideal and that their are many good brands and some ranking comparisons on them, but for those of us that planned to feed these until they realized how much chickens actually eat and the price of organic feed vs conventional I leave out organic in my thoughts on this.
The postings I see on this forum usually involve Purina vs blue seal vs southern states vs etc etc with people saying their own preferences without hardly any real facts to verify why one is better then the other.
Is there anyone out there that is knowledgeable enough on feed to be able to point out what to look for and why? not simply , no soy or no corn because I feed soy free? So that the rest of us not in the know can look at a bag and say ok, the top ingredient's are this and this and this which would make this pretty good or better yet make a chart or spread sheet?
-Brian