IM a fanatic about NOT using sorghum in any form. I feed the Nature wise AllFlock from TSC.
About 3 years ago, agricorps started replacing corn with sorghum sourced from 3rd world countries. Its a lot cheaper. There were multiple studies done vowing no differences... studies funded by agricorps. NHIS is one of two i found that were objective.
I'm currently feeding fermented Scratch & Peck starter and dry Payback organic hatch-to-hen, but I currently have chicks. My usual feed with an all adult flock would be fermented S&P grower (though I might stick with starter from now on) and dry Payback organic layer.
I'll not at all familiar with those, but i learned a hard lesson with the sorghum, so now i research the feeds i choose, lol. 40 plus hens, less than 8 eggs daily. For a year. Crazy. Now i tend to get a bit preachy about sorghum, so apologies!
No need to apologize, if you feel it's detrimental to the birds then don't use it. The feeds I use don't have it, if that's something you're actively avoiding. But until my chicks come into lay, I'm unlikely to get more than 2 eggs a day out of 8 hens... that's what I get for choosing decorative birds over layers, and for not culling as birds age out of laying years.
There are lots of threads about that in the 'feeding' forum.
I currently feed my hens fermented S&P grower mash too, but give them new country organics gamebird crumbles as free-choice dry feed. They mostly eat S&P grower, which is only 17% protein, so a small amount 26% protein gamebird crumbles on top of it makes it just right.
Azure is the best place that you can get cheap high quality organic grains. Their chicken feed also have very reasonable prices.
