From my experience this makes some valid points even if there are some unsupported claims. I worry a lot about feeding my cockerel the same food as the females due to calcium levels and also when I have had a chicken which just doesn’t lay or has stopped laying as it’s moulting or broody I worry about too much calcium.
I have looked after young and adult chickens ( not mine) with gout which I had deduced could be caused by them eating too much calcium. I currently have the care of a young rooster who has very swollen feet and limbs and by photograph has been diagnosed as possibly gout. Although the advice was to feed layers pellets ( in addition to other medications) I have moved him into growers pellets as I was worried. The protein is the same (16%) but the calcium is less.
I did have him on mixed chicken grain which he loved but the vet advised a balanced layers pellet food.
He takes 10% unpasteurised apple cider vinegar dilution for his water for two weeks. He has a quarter of a 500mg paracetamol once per day in the morning and some low dose Volterol applied to his feet at night to help him sleep.
He came from a group of females fed layers pellets and was hatched with them.
I would like to know what this means:
‘What can you feed instead?
I feed a 20% unmedicated grower feed to my entire flock. It's a one-size fits all feed, because it is suitable for growing chicks, too.’
The title is STOP FEEDING LAYERS PELLETS NOW, so what is the alternative? Does this mean 80% layers pellets and 20% growers pellets?
I find it ambiguous. I would like to know though.
