Anyone heard of Triple Duty - for layers and chicks?

[OHMYCHICKIES]

My farm supply sell Triple Duty and they said they can be giving to chicks that are feathered out and layers. That would solve my feeding problem but wanted to make sure it was okay.

Anyone know about this feed?

 

[OHMYCHICKIES]

anyone?

 

[pondguy2004]

Never heard of it, but I'll try an opinion anyway. I'm kind of a feed guy, sort of. The calcium level for layers is very high, plus a lot of smaller differences. You will comprimise performance on one or both, chicks and layers, but that may not be important enough to you to justify keeping more than one kind of feed. In all probabability your birds will do O.K.. Especially if they have access to grass and bugs and such. That's my 2 cents worth. Tim:/

 

[OHMYCHICKIES]

This feed is suppose to not have calcium, so I'll supplement with oyster shells. They will all be free range.

 

[speckledhen]

That is similar to people feeding Flock Raiser by Purina to the entire group or Game Bird Grower, then supplementing with calcium. What is the protein level in the Triple Duty?

 

[OHMYCHICKIES]

not sure but my friend told me it was high in protein.

 

[bethandjoeync]

we also had this dilema. we had chicks in the coop with our 4 older girls and the chicks wanted to eat the layer feed and the hens loved the chick feed

what to do?
check out our other thread when I asked a similar question
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=176276

we aren't using the brand you are, just the Dumor starter/grower 20% and supplementing calcium for the hens. it is working out just fine, they are all happy and full.