I'ld go look at some of your near by feed stores, especially the local ones and see if they have their own brand, If they do they are usually cheaper and of better quality.
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The folks at Tractor Supply are very helpful and knowledgeable here. If you are getting chicks then you will need the "starter feed" for them in the crumble. My chicks did real well on the Dumor brand. You will be able to find the help you need here as you need it. When your chicks approach 18 to 22 weeks you can start changing them over to the layer feed. When I started with my chicks, I took it a step at a time. Read everything I could on BYC and we did fine.First of all, I am very new to BYC ( just joined today! ) and I love it already!
But anyway, I don't have chickens yet but we are planning on getting some this month. We would go to the Tractor Supply Co. here. We went yesterday and I saw brands like Purina Layena, Dumor, and some others that I don't remember. What brand do you reccommend, even not in those listed?
Thanks!
About an hour away, there is a mill that grinds their own blend with some very nice ingredients. It is a mash, which I didn't care for, but the birds did great. However, the distance makes it not practical for a small flock, so I currently use Nutrena Nature Wise layer pellets.
Not a lot of options here, mainly Layena and Nutrena. My birds did fine on Layena, but it made their waste smell worse. Much better on Nutrena. I thought maybe it was a fluke until the feed store was out of Nutrena one day and I bought Layena again. The coop quickly smelled again, so I went back to Nutrena.
Anyone have any brands that have organic feed? I live in the Minneapolis area and I'd have to drive quite a long ways to get to a feed store. I'd be willing to order online I just can't find any brand names. We have 8 birds and lately they are just tearing through their food. We'd like to feed them organic and let them free range in our yard as much as possible.