Alfalfa, kick starts egg laying for me every time

[annep]

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Any feed store, or Cl. This time of year, depending on where you live, with the drought in Texas, it might be pricey for a bale...

 

[Fred's Hens]

TSC has a 40 pound bag of pellets for $16. Sounds a bit high, but they go a loooooong way. Soak them and they're quadruple in bulk. Mix in layer mash or with scratch, one part alfalfa to 4 parts mash/grain. The pellets provide feed alfalfa, but a bale of alfalfa can also provide an activity.


Alfalfa is protein and nutrient rich. All that said, a caution as this is may merely the latest things touted to kick start laying. There's simply no "magic" in any of these things. Good feed & water, good health, proper lighting, good living conditions and a hen will lay as she is bred to do.

 

[jmagill]

Fred's Hens :

TSC has a 40 pound bag of pellets for $16. Sounds a bit high, but they go a loooooong way. Soak them and they're quadruple in bulk. Mix in layer mash or with scratch, one part alfalfa to 4 parts mash/grain. The pellets provide feed alfalfa, but a bale of alfalfa can also provide an activity.


Alfalfa is protein and nutrient rich. All that said, a caution as this is may merely the latest things touted to kick start laying. There's simply no "magic" in any of these things. Good feed & water, good health, proper lighting, good living conditions and a hen will lay as she is bred to do.

I am not touting the "latest thing". I am simply saying what has worked for me for the last three years. Every year when the cold hits hard my chickens slow down on laying. Every year I give them a week or two and then I start feeding alfalfa a few times a week. I have had increased egg production within two days.

All other things have remained the same. Feed, water. light and living conditions.​

 

[bobbieschicks]

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Any feed store, or Cl. This time of year, depending on where you live, with the drought in Texas, it might be pricey for a bale...

Thank you.

 

[pennstatezim]

when my rir start to slow down laying I put some of my alfalfa rabbit pellets into there mash and they start laying again.

 

[seminolewind]

I will go get some

 

[wolftracks]

I've been chasing the birds away from the rabbit feed, but no more. Now if I could come up with lighting!

 

[vsmenagerie]

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I did this this morning. They have eaten it so far! I need to get more sprouts growing too.