What do you feed your breeding chickens?

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What do you feed your breeders? Is this the only feed you have tried? Do you get better hatch rates with this?

I am reading Creative Poultry Breeding by Carefoot and I was curious what others are doing? I feed a 20% layer pellet. I have decent hatches.
 
I feed layer crumbles plus fresh greens and worms from my worm compost. Plus they get out to free range once a week. Fairly Labor intensive. I get great fertility and hatches. I would love to hear what others do.

Lanae
 
I make sure that my 20% crumble has animal protein in it, soy protein has been proven to inhibit fertility. My feed dropped the animal protein with out me knowing about it a few years ago and it was the worst hatching season ever for me.

I also give a vitamin solution of ADE in their water once or twice a week. I will put alfalfa in their pens for them to eat/scratch thru.
I will mix a wheat germ oil in their feed once a week also and then I give mine a moist dog food treat ( like Gainsburger) once or twice a week.

All of this is a routine that I go thru from February to May which is my hatching season for show birds.

Bob
 
Don't laugh. I mix in Turkey/Gamebird finisher. It has high protein and I've been blessed with great fertility.

They also get to share a can of salmon every week.
 
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Mahonri, I was looking for the "like" button.
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I do that too... salmon (not canned, though
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) halibut, and leftovers.
 
I feed the gang the leftover canned cat food after the spoiled cats lick the juice off of it. Also, the frozen generic spinach from the grocery. When the blocks start to thaw, they tuck into it. I've tried the gamebird pellets mixed with their crumbles but they pick around it. I use Purina flock raiser which has soy protein. I didn't know soy lowered fertility until I read it on the forum earlier this summer. Sigh.... it seems I pay more not to have feed with ground chicken feathers in it and I have to pay more to supplement it.
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Colby
 
I have a metal garbage can that hold 150 lbs of feed. I like to mix 16% Dunor layers, Layena, and a bag of Purina Flock Raiser. One of the bags will be pellets.
Been doing this for a year and then some now. I have no fertility issues. I also have a small feeder with some crushed Oyster shell for the calcium.
 
I plan on feeding 20% purina gamebird layena feed with animal proteins. I hear game bird does a lot of good for chickens. I also plan on feeding manna pro pellets, red cell, and canned cat/dog food. Of course I will also feed grit and oyster shells!
 

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