Can Bantams Eat Pellets?

[Peep-Chicken]

Also, for feeding, can bantams do pellets? Friend gave us new bag of D'mor layer pellets. Or can the only manage to eat crumbles?

 

[Kelsie2290]

I feed my adult bantams pellets. Like anything else new, if they have never seen / eaten pellets they may not want to eat them at first, I usually mix crumbles with the pellets for the first couple of weeks when switching them over.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Ok thanks Kelsie

 

[BantamLover21]

I feed my bantams pellets. While they prefer crumbles, they manage to eat them just fine with a bit of practice.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Thanks Bantam

 

[ChazzanHillel]

I just switched over to Texas Natural non GMO pellets with my flock. They were curious at first and pecked a bit. Hardly interested the first week or two. Week 3 I noticed more of it being consumed more quickly and today I noticed my buff orp Bantam eating it when she used to stick to the crumbles I offer as a second choice. Texas Natural does a pullet grower crumble, but I don't think they do a layer crumble.

I only have 8 birds, so at first I took a brick and crumbled up a little of it in a bucket for them at first so they could get the hang of it better. They seem to have gotten the hang of it now I was hoping little Bantam would get the hang so I could just stick to one feed type for now. So far so good. I'll keep offering crumbles for the next few weeks and hopefully change her over gradually.

 

[mkeawsh]

I have looked for Non-GMO here and no one sells Non-GMO feed. Where in Texas do you get your feed and do you think they would ship?

 

[ChazzanHillel]

I get mine from my local feed store here in Fort Worth, Tx. Where are you located?

http://www.texasnaturalfeeds.com

Not sure if they ship.

 

[mkeawsh]

Beaufort, MO - farm country but it seems to be too new of a concept to have GMO free and MO is NOT the fastest on catching up with the trends.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Thanks everyone!