Thanks so much for those links!! The peanuts, though not regularly feed, probably are too fatty.
I do have that book, however it is organized unusually and I have had a difficult time wading through as I created my recipe.
I will check out those others as well. Any thoughts are greatly...
Thank you very much! Terrific points that I hadn't considered.
With regard to 'animal protein', this refers to meats, bugs and such, correct? I am aware chickens are carnivores and have actually worried if there are enough bugs available to them. This may well be exactly what is going on!
Thanks for the links! I have been able to rule out moldy or rancid. I had almost 100 chickens and went through grain very quickly, so even if I fed moldy feed (which I have never seen and did pay close attention for) it would have been short term before a new bag of a given grain was opened and...
I started mixing a feed based on a recipe I found here and further research. They have been eating this mix for a year.
Egg production has decreased suddenly. At first I thought it was just because they were molting. We were harvesting our roosters, so we also harvested a couple hen. Before...