14 week old chick, low on chick feed, layer pellets?

[rosyposyosy]

My 14 week old chick was low on feed and is going through it like crazy, so I mixed the remainder with the layers pellets from my older pullets. Is that ok, or should I buy another 50# bag of chick feed? I really don't want to, because 50# is a lot for 1 chick.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

Your feed store won't sell you a small bag? Most of the feed stores will break a bag and sell you 5# or 10#. Especially if they sell chicks and have a bag open anyways.

 

[barg]

When we started integration... the last time, we pretty much had to choose: give the big girls medicated, or the younger ones layer pellets; we chose to go with layer pellets and I never heard anyone complain.

Added, I think mine were around 15 or 16 weeks at the time, Id have to recheck that.

Added: it was 15 weeks when we switched over to layer exclusively.

 

[McGoo]

I think you answered my question - So it's alright to give 5 month old chickens layer pellets? They're not laying yet, but they love the stuff.

Supposedly it's got less protein in it, but I suspect that their free-ranging adds a lot of protein.

 

[bantymum]

Well I must admit that all mine are out freeranging all day and the 2 month old chicks get into the adult food all the time and so far I have never had any problems, They have been ranging out there since they were 3 weeks old!

 

[Standard Hen]

Me too,,,never had any ill effects.

 

[alex]

you should ask the feed store to sell you a little but if you cant i don't think that laying pellets will kill him...or whatever your feeding him/her

 

[devora]

We switched early for similar reasons. No problems. We had enough to do a blend, tho, so it wasn't a total switch at first. Ours free range so at that time most of their food was coming from the land.

 

[MissPrissy]

If you buy a full bag you can mix it with the other feed. It's really no big deal at this point.