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Producer's Pride 16% Mini-Pellet Layer Chicken Feed, 40 lb., 3005205-205

Layer Pellets
Pros: Price, small pellets, availability
Cons: Minimal protein, seems to go stale rather quickly
I've fed this feed to my laying hens for a while. The mini pellets are more appealing to my birds than normal pellets and are not as messy as crumbles. It's been fine for my younger hens but I've had an older hen with thin-shelled eggs and she's an egg eater. They also don't seem to want to eat it in the winter. It never smells very fresh and eventually starts smelling really weird and makes whatever else was in the container (galvanized trash can) smell the same way. I've thrown away a lot of this stuff because of that.
Great feed for the price
Pros: Price, chickens like how it tastes, good egg production
Cons: Not the best quality ingredients, may not provide enough calcium as some of my hens' eggs have a brittle shell
This feed gets the job done if you just need something affordable. Nothing wrong with it. There are feeds with higher-quality ingredients out there, but this feed is decent enough and I haven't found a cheaper feed at TSC yet. I just bought a bag of DuMor organic, so I will have something to compare this to. Up until this point I have only used Producer's Pride.
Purchase Price
$12.99 for 40#
Purchase Date
April 2022
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