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  1. ChickenCanoe

    How long to feed chick starter?

    I wouldn't stress about it. Medicated feed really isn't necessary as long as you keep the bedding bone dry and keep feeders at least half full. Medicated feed is usually addition of Amprolium which is only for starving the protozoa coccidia (the cause of coccidiosis) by resembling thiamin...
  2. ChickenCanoe

    How long to feed chick starter?

    That will net about 16% crude protein. Too low for growing birds. Chickens don't eat at night because they can't see then.
  3. ChickenCanoe

    How long to feed chick starter?

    I used to find earthworms and other invertebrates for the chickens till I learned that earthworms and other chicken prey were intermediate hosts of parasitic worms.
  4. ChickenCanoe

    How long to feed chick starter?

    I'm sure they love it. They feel like you are feeding them candy. But by mixing starter with scratch, you are dramatically lowering the protein of the resulting feed. Starter is usually at least 18% protein, which is what your birds need. Scratch is between 8 and 10% protein. Depending on what...
  5. ChickenCanoe

    How long to feed chick starter?

    3 months is too young for layer feed. To answer your first question, what are the instructions on the bag of starter feed? All manufacturers print either on the back of the bag or on the guaranteed analysis tag exactly how it is to be fed. They know precisely what is in the feed, we don't.
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