Hey everyone!......My chicks are seven weeks old and I am trying to wean them off the Purina Start And Grow, mostly to get them off the medicated feed. It's the only commercial feed they have had up till now. I do free range them supervised and I give them veggies from the garden and fruits and such. I recently purchased a really good, expensive chicken feed to switch them over to and for some reason, they don't seem to be eating it. it is not a crumble, which they are used to, it is actually whole grains milled to be be smaller so they can eat it as they are still young. it is a "grower" feed.
My question is.....Do I need to be concerned that they are not eating as much feed as they were with the Purina? I am afraid they are starving themselves! I don't want to give them too much of anything else such as scraps and such as I don't want to throw their nutritional balance off. Someone please tell me that when they get good and hungry, they will eat this new feed.
I'm really worried.
My question is.....Do I need to be concerned that they are not eating as much feed as they were with the Purina? I am afraid they are starving themselves! I don't want to give them too much of anything else such as scraps and such as I don't want to throw their nutritional balance off. Someone please tell me that when they get good and hungry, they will eat this new feed.
