Anyone raise their chickens to produce low PUFA eggs?

[Jmiller89]

Wanted to see if anyone else was trying or able to raise their chickens to be low PUFA (polyunsaturated fat). We have just started with 6 red sexlinks (23wks) and 6 black sexlinks (4wks). The older girls have still not laid eggs, though they look healthy and seem to be getting enough food with foraging and scraps. If you are not feeding your chickens grains, what are you feeding them and how are you economically growing food or providing food for your chickens? We are going to start a mealworm farm and soldier fly farm to supplement. We are also starting to grow comfrey. Anything else we can grow and possibly store for feeding during the winter months?

 

[Altairsky]

Pasture raised animals have higher amounts of omega 3 in their meat (or eggs). Commercial processed feed tends to be very high in pufa so you need to feed your chickens a balanced diet of whole seeds.
Rich pasture, fish meat as protein source, a good amount of linseed and hemp seed in your seed mix help keep pufa levels low and omega 3 high.

 

[PolEggR]

You could grow duckweed. And gather mulberry leaves if you have around. Both can be sun dried and PUFAS tend to be towards the O3 side.

Alternatively you could raise silkworms from mulberry.
Or hornworms from the garden's nightshade leaves instead of letting them rot in the compost pile.
Nope hornworms become toxic if fed nightshades.

 

[Altairsky]

I bump this thread because I recently found a very interesting article about low PUFA eggs and what to feed chickens to get low pufa eggs.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9658713/
Apparently no corn, no soy, grass fed beef liver and suet.
Replace animal protein with oily fish protein (whole defrozen sardines/anchovies which includes the fish liver), add whole flax seed and whole hemp seed, and you should get even better profile than the one described in the study.

 

[Jmiller89]

I bump this thread because I recently found a very interesting article about low PUFA eggs and what to feed chickens to get low pufa eggs.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9658713/
Apparently no corn, no soy, grass fed beef liver and suet.
Replace animal protein with oily fish protein (whole defrozen sardines/anchovies which includes the fish liver), add whole flax seed and whole hemp seed, and you should get even better profile than the one described in the study.

My husband is mixing his own chicken feed now and going to have our eggs tested at some point to see the fat breakdown. It’s becoming a special project for him lol.