Can I feed my roo layers pellets????

[ADozenGirlz]

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What information do you have the amount of calcium in layer pellets can lead to some health problems in roosters? What kinds of problems and where can this research be read?

High amounts of Calcium (Ca) in any poultry's diet can cause health problems with there kidneys and cause ureter, kidney impaction resulting in nephrosis and in some cases Avian Urolithiasis (Gout).

A good feed co. will state on there layer feed bag for laying fowl. (there is a reason they print that on the bags)
Example of Buckeye Feed 17% Complete Laying Crumbles.
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Chris

Feed companies do not make their money from the the rooster community, of course they market their layer pellets to laying hens. lol
I'm still interested in reading any actual data and research to support the position that the amount of calcium in layer feed is detrimental to roosters. The only research you pointed us to supports the proposition that it is fine. Layer feed does not contain "huge amounts of calcium."

edited to add: the article you cited states that layer feed provides merely four to six times a rooster's daily calcium requirement. That is not significant enough to cause problems in roosters, as the article indicates.

 

[indi]

Thanks but if I don't feed him that (bearing in mind they share a coop) what can I feed them instead and how do I keep them separate?

 

[greenriver]

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All my chickens get the same feed.

Let us for a moment consider that someone might want to feed the roos a different feed. How would you accomplish that? Do you seperate roos from hens?

 

[Chris09]

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High amounts of Calcium (Ca) in any poultry's diet can cause health problems with there kidneys and cause ureter, kidney impaction resulting in nephrosis and in some cases Avian Urolithiasis (Gout).

A good feed co. will state on there layer feed bag for laying fowl. (there is a reason they print that on the bags)
Example of Buckeye Feed 17% Complete Laying Crumbles.
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Chris

Feed companies do not make their money from the the rooster community, of course they market their layer pellets to laying hens. lol
I'm still interested in reading any actual data and research to support the position that the amount of calcium in layer feed is detrimental to roosters. The only research you pointed us to supports the proposition that it is fine. Layer feed does not contain "huge amounts of calcium."

edited to add: the article you cited states that layer feed provides merely four to six times a rooster's daily calcium requirement. That is not significant enough to cause problems in roosters, as the article indicates.

All you have to do is Google calcium toxicity and you will information.

Feed companies do not make their money from the the rooster community, of course they market their layer pellets to laying hens.

I don't know about your feed co. but the ones that I use makes more than layer feed, they have a full line of livestock feed that they produce and they also have a Research and Decampment department.


Chris​

 

[Chris09]

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All my chickens get the same feed.

Let us for a moment consider that someone might want to feed the roos a different feed. How would you accomplish that? Do you seperate roos from hens?

When my rooster/s are in the breeding pen with the hens the whole pen gets a Breeder mix and I have a crock of supplemental calcium (a mixture oyster shells and calcium carbonate)
If I have a mixed group of birds free ranging I feed grower feed and have a crock of supplemental calcium (a mixture oyster shells and calcium carbonate)

Chris

 

[Chris09]

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I didn't post a article but, that "merely four to six times a rooster's daily calcium requirement" is enough to cause problems in a rooster over time.

Chris

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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I didn't post a article but, that "merely four to six times a rooster's daily calcium requirement" is enough to cause problems in a rooster over time.

Chris

Sorry, my mistake, digitS' posted that article link above.

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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You're not going to be able to keep them separate. They will eat the other's food unless they are kept in different, fenced in areas where their food is.

 

[ashleeford]

Thats what my roos get. Its high in protein, it should be fine. They cant lay eggs so theyll just use the protein to protein for fat

 

[indi]

So the calcium won't kill him then?