I provide grinding grit especially when chicks are in the house or caged, they can’t go get rocks on their own. I give to adults too based on my yard, what is in it… in theory there is plenty of little pebbles, rock stuff but some parts of the yard not so much, and if weather has my birds in a...
Yes wetting the feed or fermentation might help as well. My birds will eat anything almost… lol so I can be a bit more cavalier with them. But when feeling out a new group of birds, introducing new feeds you do have to sometimes really experiment. Fermentation has some good advantages. Wetting...
Okay… what I would do.
1 chose a higher protein feed that is whole grain and a good pellet or crumble feed, start mixing 50/50 and gradually transition it to 100% whole grain mix and seeds type mix. The reason I would do this is most likely they have been fed pellets or crumble their whole...