Adding vitamins?

[Johnchickens2]

Hi! I was wondering regarding adding vitamins to the chickens diet. My birds have layer feed pellets, scratch feed (wheat, corn, etc...), veggies like cabbage and cucumbers, green leaves ... do I also need to add multivitamins to their diet?

Also... my friend gave me a box of Prime vitamins for parrots and birds. Can it also be siutable for chickens? It says companion birds.

Thanks!!

 

[RoyalChick]

Hi! I was wondering regarding adding vitamins to the chickens diet. My birds have layer feed pellets, scratch feed (wheat, corn, etc...), veggies like cabbage and cucumbers, green leaves ... do I also need to add multivitamins to their diet?

Also... my friend gave me a box of Prime vitamins for parrots and birds. Can it also be siutable for chickens? It says companion birds.

Thanks!!

With a diet like that I doubt they are lacking in vitamins.
Sometimes vitamin B levels in feed reduce because it decays fast (one of many reasons to use feed that is as fresh as possible) but mostly they will be getting the vitamins they need from the feed.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Almost ALWAYS cheaper and more effective to buy a better quality feed than to try and "fix" a feed by adding vitamins. The one common exception? People with ducks who can't get a duck-specific feed, or whose management practices require they feed ducks and chickens together (I don't recommend, but I do it). For them, adding Niacin in the form of nutritional yeast, particularly for just hatched ducks until mostly developed (and more so if you have Pekins) is not uncommon.

Once they are adults, a good All Flock-type formulation with free choice yster shell for your layers is typically both easy and effective.