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In the interest of learning more about your interesting project, I wonder if you have a draft of your ingredients list? Another thing I wonder is how loose ingredients like the fine Nutribalancer work with whole grains. Are you going to feed it separately or let it sift to the bottom of the...

I came across another interesting study comparing oats to corn. This one was an extensive 1969 Danish study. Oats came in "surprisingly" just behind corn in producing total carcass weights and ahead of wheat, sorghum, and barley. In taste tests, oat-fed birds were equal to corn in white meat and...

See attached study. An oldie but a goodie.

Lisa, here are my notes on mostly traditional grains ranked first by energy. Low energy, high fiber grains are important to me for what and how I raise. But some corn is key because it is so digestible and has concentrated energy. Same for wheat, and the two grains complement each other well. A...

... to use traditional grains. An exeption is black oil sunflower seeds. Maint. w Whole Grains 4 parts fermented oats, 44 2 parts corn, 15 1 parts wheat, 10.8 [more @ breeding] 1 part barley, 11.5 [vy hard kernel for gizzard] .5 black oil sunflower, 8.5 1 New Country Organics booster pellet...

I like your quest for your own mix, Lisa. I will share mine, which often changes slightly, and my reasons. Now, I am raising Old English games, and I want slow growth of young and free range. Adults are in maintenance mode except when breeding and in heavy molt. I boost the protein at breeding...