They can pick sunflower kernels right of the head and digest them just fine.
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We have been mixing cracked corn or fancy scratch with layer feed. 50lb feed to 40lbs scratch/corn. They are free range all day everyday and get veg and fruit scrapes. Am I giving too much corn? They also get some scratch for a treat. It sure has trained them to come to me when I call.The fatty liver can come simply from too much carbohydrate in the diet. Only during periods of extreme cold do I keep whole corn inclusion rate up around 25% for any length of time. This is in addition to corn on the chick grower formulation used to base my diets on.
You can get such a problem whenever you have an imbalance in nutrients relative to what is needed.
We have been mixing cracked corn or fancy scratch with layer feed. 50lb feed to 40lbs scratch/corn. They are free range all day everyday and get veg and fruit scrapes. Am I giving too much corn? They also get some scratch for a treat. It sure has trained them to come to me when I call.