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I know i’m a bit late late but I feed Purina layena+omega 3s. It’s the best feed i’ve fed so far.
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I do want to know why some people seem to think corn is the greatest and others seem to consider it junk.
Thank you. I appreciate your input. Sounds useful to me. At this point, my hen got injured and isn't eating much. All she's really willing to eat is sunflower seeds. This morning i hand-cracked some corn grains, hoping she'd eat them because she's lost so much weight. She skipped right over the corn, barley, and oats and picked out all the black sunflower seeds, (shell on.) She gained a little weight, finally. I measured her today. She was dropping weight fast. Maybe you happen to know the downside of a hen living on sunflower seeds and greens she picks? And bugs.I will say a good word for corn. It is a foundation, not a filler, as the most digestible cereal grain. And the only one that supplies vitamin A, I have read. It is high energy, though low protein, at least the usual commodity dent corn. I feed a lot of fermented oats, and corn is a wonderful balance to high-fiber, low-energy oats.
Laying hens do well on heavily corn-based diets as long as there's not only corn or overwhelmingly so. A balance with other grains is always best. Chickens like corn, and it has been proven for centuries for growing fowl, layers, and broilers. I feed at least 20% corn in my grain-based mix, with other energy sources being wheat and milo. A classic scratch mix is corn, wheat, and oats. Unless you limit-feed or balance energy sources, as with using some oats or barley, corn can fatten, primarily non-laying fowl. At the level I feed corn, my fowl are lean. They need it and love it.
I got some of that! Just a few pounds from the bulk bag. I think it's the one that doesn't really want to say what it is? It smells great and the pellets are a little smaller.I know i’m a bit late late but I feed Purina layena+omega 3s. It’s the best feed i’ve fed so far.
Thank you. I appreciate your input. Sounds useful to me. At this point, my hen got injured and isn't eating much. All she's really willing to eat is sunflower seeds. This morning i hand-cracked some corn grains, hoping she'd eat them because she's lost so much weight. She skipped right over the corn, barley, and oats and picked out all the black sunflower seeds, (shell on.) She gained a little weight, finally. I measured her today. She was dropping weight fast. Maybe you happen to know the downside of a hen living on sunflower seeds and greens she picks? And bugs.