When can chicks eat LAYER CRUMBLES ???

[speckledhen]

Amprolium is a thiamine blocker and will not hurt your hens.

 

[Ridgerunner]

This Oregon State site gives some info on when to feed what feed. I never noticed any discussion on mash, crumbles or pellets. Still, good info

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/pnw/pnw477/#anchor1132074

 

[jonesgirl]

Quote:
Is this what is in the medicated chick feed? Won't get into the eggs, or better yet, won't bother a human if it does?

THanks :}

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, the Amprolium is a coccidostat in the chick starter. My broodies eat it right along with their babies and it won't hurt your eggs.

 

[Cluckadoodledo]

I asked a professional chicken person when I can put my chicks in with the egg laying adults. He said at 22 weeks.

 

[ryanhodapp]

I just went to a training with a rep from Purina Milla, he said 18 weeks.

 

[Nickbuck10]

I say 8weeks that is when I moved them in with the rest of the flock.

 

[azygous]

My chicks turn four weeks tomorrow and they're mingling with the seventeen adult hens, competing for meal worms, and eating from the common feeding troughs. They also go into their coop on their own, having already mastered the plastic door flaps.

They've been with the adults since day one, separated only by a partition with small pop holes that they fit nicely through that the adults can't. There's no reason why you can't merge chicks with the adults using the "panic room" method which protects the small fry until they have the confidence to join the adults, and safety when they don't.

When the adult flock has been exposed to the tiny new members all along, by the time the chicks are bold enough to join the adults, they are already accepted members of the flock due to proximity. It's such a nifty system, it makes merging chicks with adults easy and simple.

 

[hazelgrace]

We feed ours when there 18 weeks old,
But I was wondering is that the same thing for silkies?

 

[3riverschick]

NatureWise

Meatbird Feed 22% crumbles
http://www.nutrenaworld.com/products/poultry/naturewise-poultry/naturewise-meatbird/index.jsp
Country Feeds Meatbird 20% Crumbles
http://www.nutrenaworld.com/products/poultry/country-feeds-poultry/country-feeds-meatbird/index.jsp
Agway sells a Meatbird feed crumble which is by the same manufacturer and a sister product to the
Naturewise Meatbird crumble.
Hi,
I don't know what kind of breed you have...however, if it is a meat breed or a dual purpose breed, you can feed all the birds of both sexes and all ages a Meatbird crumble. Cradle to grave, no problems. ( see above).
Best,
Karen