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  1. FrostRanger

    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    You can feed starter if you want. Only thing is starter is generally only available in crumbles. You can certainly feed egg shells back if you want but you still need to provide crushed oyster shell on the side as giving them their eggshells back won't provide enough calcium on it's own
  2. FrostRanger

    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    Wild birds have different nutritional needs than domesticated chickens. Yes, they are all birds but different birds have different needs
  3. FrostRanger

    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    Sounds like a good plan. The reason they recommended crumbles is very young chicks do need crumbles, older birds can deal with either. When transitioning the birds to pellets, mix in some pellets with their crumbles, that way someone is likely to get curious, try it and see that it's food
  4. FrostRanger

    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    Wild bird food is not balanced feed for chickens. It's formulated for wild birds who are constantly on the move and only occasionally lay eggs and are eating other things, not chickens who are mostly kept in a run, lay regularly and will primarily be eating feed. A chicken kept on wild bird feed...
  5. FrostRanger

    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    I feed kalmbach flock maker pellets if you're wanting a good feed recommendation, I will say though that nutrition is far more important than the brand and if you do feed chick starter, flock maker/raiser or all flock, you must provide crushed oyster shell on the side for calcium. The main...
  6. FrostRanger

    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    Bird seed is a high value treat, I would either move the feeder where they aren't hanging out or remove it entirely. I would consider the latter option especially if you are worried about bird flu as even if they can't access the feeder, the feeder will still encourage the wild birds to hang...
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