Calcium Requirement for Non-laying Older Hen?

[EuroChook]

Can anyone give me this information please? It is absurdly not anywhere on the interweb. I love you if you do. If you don't? Then...probably... Mehhh, I'll think about it.

Thanks, truly.

 

[DobieLover]

Non-laying hens, pre-POL pullets, cockerels and roosters all have the same Ca requirement, 0.8 - 1.3%. It should be feed year round even to laying hens. Keep a container or two of oyster shell on the side for free choice feeding by active layers. That way birds that do not require the extra calcium for shell production do not get kidney damage from constantly having to process far more calcium than they need for their bodies.

 

[EuroChook]

Non-laying hens, pre-POL pullets, cockerels and roosters all have the same Ca requirement, 0.8 - 1.3%. It should be feed year round even to laying hens. Keep a container or two of oyster shell on the side for free choice feeding by active layers. That way birds that do not require the extra calcium for shell production do not get kidney damage from constantly having to process far more calcium than they need for their bodies.

Thank you. Im just confused on one point. Laying hens certainly can't have the same calcium requirements as non layers? Wait wait wait. I get it. Base calcium, then self-serve calcium available.

 

[Brooks_]

Base calcium, then self-serve calcium available.

 

[Kiki]

Start here:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...t-poultry/nutritional-requirements-of-poultry

Then this book is even better:
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/c...rements-of-poultry-ninth-revised-edition-1994
You can set up an account and download the book for free.
I have had it a few years and still haven't finished reading it all.



Just two pages to give you something to fall asleep reading.

 

[Brooks_]

died at load

First time seeing that.

 

[Kiki]

died at load

First time seeing that.

You lost me Brooks.

 

[Brooks_]

You lost me Brooks.

Tried for the book. Said it died at load.

 

[Kiki]

Tried for the book. Said it died at load.

PM me your email address and I'll send it to you.