Can chickens eat this?

[City farm]

Hi, I'm just wondering if my chickens can eat/live on this?

This is the only feed I can find that's close to chicken feed.

Thanks

Here is one article, hope it works.. I'll post another.. you don't want to have a ton of Heath issues, find a local feed store for something more nutritious. Especially if you want farm fresh egg's like this..

Chickens are not wild bird's.. Although they are good at foraging bug's lizards & worms.. Do you let the free range most of the day?
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=2114
More information, educate yourself
http://cleancoops.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&Itemid=16
http://www.poultryhelp.com/toxicplants.html

 

[MysteriaSdrassa]

Actually,, I would like to see the label that states the protein level. Most wild bird mixes only run around 8-9%,, i don't care who makes it. It is nothing more than fancy scratch grains. So back to the question,, can they eat it,, yes can,, they live on it,,, yes can they thrive on it,, and get all the nutrients they need off it,,, not a snowballs chance
especially since OP states in his/her name that they are a City Farm, it is doubtful they are getting the free ranging they need to make up in some serious protein deficienceis.

As far as Country Stores being sponsored by Purina,,,, so???? I fail to see any point you try to make with that statement Chickenteacher, other than to be antagonistic. I only mentioned that because it's easy to recognise the building. All it really means is Purina gets to put their checkerboard on the building. The store owner can sell whatever he likes as long as carries the Purina label as well. I walked into our local one the other day to get field peas for my girls because they are the only place close that carries them. And they had ALL kinds of different feeds in there,, Sprout, Prince, Jay-Mar, Scratch-n-Peck and Blue Seal, and yes, Purina,,,,, and that was just the chicken foods.

 

[HeritageGoose13]

Not all country stores are sponsored by Purina.

 

[junebuggena]

And just because a store may be sponsored by Purina, doesn't mean that you won't find quality feeds from other producers there as well.

 

[MysteriaSdrassa]

Not all country stores are sponsored by Purina.

True,, And I did say that in my first post. Purina just happens to the major sponsor in the midwest around here.

And just because a store may be sponsored by Purina, doesn't mean that you won't find quality feeds from other producers there as well.

Exactly,, like I said,, a lot of good feeds there,, some even from local mills and farms. In fact,, you probably have a bigger selection at a Purina or other large feed company sponsored Country Store than you will find at a place like your big stores like TSC of Fleet Farm,, or whatever big farm store you have in your area

 

[jayjaymozza]

Wow, a big response!
Well I found some chicken feed from a local man who has had chickens for years now.
He orders it online and gets it delivered.

Thanks for all the info people

 

[delaney21738]

My chickens like eating that stuff. But it is not suitable for normal food. Your loval Tractor Supply Company should have some or even some Walmarts carry big 40 pound bags.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

A long time ago people free-ranged chickens over acreage. We cannot assume the average person here has so much land. Therefore, supplements are needed.

Years ago a family might keep 50 or more hens just to have enough eggs for the table. Also remember that any wild cat, coon, fox, owl, hawk, eagle, or snake species that showed up was killed on sight and any questions as to that varmints' guilt or innocence concerning missing chickens was asked over a hot bowl of stewed varmint. The chickens they are the same, it is the chickens' keepers who have changed.

As a child of about 10 i personally watched an old German woman (in her 70s) take a 12 gauge shotgun and blast a red tail hawk out of the sky. I know that it was a red tail and i know that she killed it because i took off to retrieve it for Frau Frock in exchange for some of her German home made candy. Another old man, a WW1 vet who lived near by shot a hawk out of the air with a .22 rifle and he didn't even keep chickens, at least not any more. Fifteen hundred laying hens use to be the maximum number of hens that a farm family was expected to care for, not any longer. Today that number of hens won't pay the water bill.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Wow, a big response!
Well I found some chicken feed from a local man who has had chickens for years now.
He orders it online and gets it delivered.

Thanks for all the info people

Glad you found a way to get the other feed for your flock.

 

[QueenMisha]

sponsored by purina, enough said...

Any chicken keeper worth their salt knows that Purina is only an adequate feed... not a good one... there are many brands containing far superior nutrition... although even a bird raised and kept on Purina it's entire life will be in far better condition than a bird expected to survive on table scraps and free-ranging alone!