can i still feed it to the chickens

[mommyoftwo]

My brother in law was out helping cleaning up the garage and mixed the new bag cracked corn into the chicken starter. I scoped out dome of the corn on top, bit he mixed it together. Can I still Feed to my chickens. They normaly eat grass, bugs and fruit.

 

[DaddyBird]

How old are the chickens?As long as they have access to grit, a little cracked corn wont bother an adult. It is a main ingredient in scratch grains. If the chicks are little, I would be a little more cautious with it because it is not nearly as nutritious as the starter and you do not want them filling up on it.

 

[SobbaChickens]

^^Agreed. Completely depends on age

Can you get more chick starter and mix it in too, lessen the amount of corn they would get in a scoop?

 

[mommyoftwo]

Their about 16/17 weeks. Their combs and wattles have starter to turn bright red they were light pink up until a last week.

 

[mommyoftwo]

I will be not be going to get more feed until Friday/saturday

 

[SobbaChickens]

If you can't get more feed for that long do you have anything else to feed them? Some people change over to layer feed around 18wks so personally I think they are old enough and will be just fine.

What I'd do is buy a bag of layer feed and mix that all together with the chick starter and corn, but that is just me, because I'd refuse to waste all that feed.

 

[Roxannemc]

Their about 16/17 weeks. Their combs and wattles have starter to turn bright red they were light pink up until a last week.

Sound like they are getting ready to lay. their wattle turn red a few weeks before they lay.

 

[Roxannemc]

Have my own feed question ..
Most of my chickens free range babies and older too.
I feed them now all non medicated chicks starter because the chicks cant eat layer feed and they all run to the same spots to eat. but will this starter feed harm the adults ?
Will it hurt the eggs? I hatch and sell hatching eggs.

 

[Den in Penn]

Have my own feed question ..
Most of my chickens free range babies and older too.
I feed them now all non medicated chicks starter because the chicks cant eat layer feed and they all run to the same spots to eat. but will this starter feed harm the adults ?
Will it hurt the eggs? I hatch and sell hatching eggs.

Some never feed layer, because they have the same age makeup of their flock as yours. Just a calcium supplement on the side for the layers.