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That sounds like a good plan. The protein level is fine for adult chickens, even if you feed it for months or years. As long as they've also got a dish of oyster shell for calcium, the only reason to switch back to layer feed is if YOU want to. Either way is fine for the hens.

If it's just a day or so, the calcium won't be a big deal. But if you want to feed them an entire bag of chick starter, then the oyster shell will be important. You can also offer them the shells from any eggs you eat. Just eating their own eggshells would not be enough calcium for them as a...

That food should be fine for chickens of any age. If you have hens that are laying, make sure they have a source of calcium (like a separate dish of oyster shell), because laying hens do need more calcium than that food has in it. Hens are pretty good about eating the right amount of oyster...