Quote:You have 22% layer feed? Ours is only 16% here.
Calf Manna is like - 28% isn't it?
You use that high of protein feed all the time?
Layer (Purina) is 17% here in Canada. I supplement lightly with a 30% gamebird starter to bring my number to 20-22% using meat based protein (as opposed to all vegetable protein which seems to be "fashionable" these days.) I feed that to all my breeders; Silkies, Marans, Ameraucanas - and they all appear to be thriving on it. I start my chicks on 20% then drop the juveniles - 8 to 10 weeks - back to 15%. I prefer to grow them out slowly. I don't bump the protein back up until they are laying/breeding.