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This question wasn't directed to me but let me interject. There's nothing better for chickens than pristine forage. The problem is that a tiny percentage of poultry keepers can provide what that means. It means a lush thick pasture of tender forbs vastly populated with all sorts of invertebrates...

Here are some rather extensive charts of nutrient requirements for turkeys, leghorn type and broiler type chickens. https://extension2.missouri.edu/g8352 I have more but most of my sources are text books. Here are a few good ones...

You certainly aren't ignorant. You're way ahead of most. I've just been a nutrition Nazi for a long time having read the research in several textbooks on both meat and egg varieties. Plus, I worked programming feed mills a while for some of the largest poultry producers.

You recommended 20%. I think that is fine for the first few weeks. I was referring to those who recommend 28% or heaven forbid, higher. That higher protein will be shed in the feces because the bird can't utilize it so it ends up in the bedding as ammonia. While excess protein isn't the best...

IMO, anything above 22% is too high for any chicken at any age with the possible exception of a true meat hybrid in the first couple weeks. They aren't genetically predisposed to handling those high crude protein percentages like game birds are. Game bird chicks and poults eat primarily animal...

How old are they? I'd feed a 20-22% meat bird starter for the first 6 to 8 weeks. Then switch to an 18% start and grow type feed. When they get to about 14 weeks, I'd drop it to about 15%. The genetics of your birds is different from Cornish X, Freedom Rangers or other meat breeds so you just...