Can experts tell me if this is a good feed?

[SourRoses]

Hello They are mostly synthetic, too. Synthetic is not "NATURAL"....Just saying.

Organic feeds also use synthetic vitamins, as I said.

You make it very clear that you would never be satisfied with any off-the-shelf feed options. That's your decision. Most of us could never afford such a decision or risk our animals running out of such a basic necessity as balanced shelf-stable food. Please stop pushing the idea that everyone has to make the same decisions you are making.

 

[Kenya Mwangi]

Please stop pushing the idea that everyone has to make the same decisions you are making.

Hello I think you are pushing that for me, I never said people have to make my same decisions. That is misleading what you are saying.

Everything after "alfalfa meal" is either a vitamin, mineral, or probiotic.

Is flavor additive a vitamin, mineral, or probiotic?

In this feed there is even an ingredient named "Processed" and this feed is name "Natural Layer Ration"

Yea don't buy this.

 

[Kenya Mwangi]

Most of us could never afford such a decision

Hello Most people don't consider the average yearly cost of veterinary bills for even cats or dogs. It is not my mistake that they fail to consider costs before obtaining cute animals.

 

[Altairsky]

Even if proteins are not optimal, you can add some protein rich food once a week (cooked fish, cooked minced meat, organ meat, boiled eggs, whatever is cheaper). Proteins are never a problem.
The biggest problem to me is that it's a layer feed so if, for whatever reason, you have non-laying birds in your flock, the levels of artificially added calcium are toxic in the long term. It's better to have oyster shell free choice and no added calcium in the food.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Obviously, its a layer ration, look at the calcium content. It has unusually high Met and Lys levels for a Layer ration, that's not a bad thing. Fat and Fiber levels are good. Uses a lot of "by products" and generalizations as in, not whole grains, not based on a specific two or three ingredient mix for its bulk. In otherwords, its formulated with a least cost focus, not unusual for a layer ration.

It uses two forms of calcium you don't see a lot of here in the US before it gets to the Calcuim Carbonate (oyster shell, for us), both of which have lower calcium toxicity concerns than calcium carbonate, and with the side effect of inctreasing P levels, which also buffer excess calcium and contribute to strong bone development (among other factors).

The laundry list of ingredients making up 85% of the ingredients is a Methionine boosting vitamin/mineral premix with enzymes designed to make the plant ingredients more bioavailable and intended to reduce antinutritive factors. If I spent a few minute, I could possibly tell you which pre-mix that is.

and my gut feeling is that it is a "layer" formulation intended for use with breeders - this the higher protein (17% rather than 16%), Met, and Lys levels, as well as the increased use of calcium diphoshate and dical pho compared tot he (usually cheaper) calcium carbonate.
If i was producing hatching eggs for a commercial hatchery, that would be the sort of feed I'd look for.

So yes, under certain circumstances, I'd use it. Its not a bad feed as these things go, but its definitely purpose built.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

It says "natural" but the ingredients are full of funny chemical things. I wouldn't eat it so I also wouldn't feed it to my animals. My rule is, if I don't feel like eating it, none of my animals are gonna eat it.
I even ate cat food before deciding if it was good enough to give it to my cat.

You should really watch out for the chemical dihydrogen oxide with chickens. I heard it’s highly toxic and that they are putting it in everything.

 

[Altairsky]

You should really watch out for the chemical dihydrogen oxide

Sorry but I'm not ignorant to that point.