Check your Feed bag tags UPDATED

[silkydragon]

i just randomly get whatever im looking at sometimes its pellets sometimes its crumbles or mash my chickens kinda like the change up but there is alot of sneezing while scarfing down the mash and crumbles i may just be buying mash from now on as i have button quail and the guy i bought them off of saide they do fine on regular chicken laying mash so that will save me some money in extra food bags

 

[werecatrising]

I was in TSC yesterday and thought I'd check the prices on their feed. The layena had the bag itself marked in giant letter, crumbles or pellets. Did Purina change their packiaging? Or is this just for TSC?

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I have always used pellets for both large fowl and bantams. I switched to Layena from my co-op food a couple of months ago and have been very happy with it. Just for experiments sake, last time I bought two bags of Flock Raiser. It turned out to be crumbles. Within about half an hour the banties had spread half of a five gallon bucket all over the run. Blech! It made a huge mess and wasted tons of it. I switched back to the Layena in pellet form and they are all doing great.

If you can't find the info on the bag or tag, just feel the bag. The pellets feel different, even through the paper.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

It has it on the white tag if it is a pellet or crumble. Personally, I prefer the pellet.

 

[snowhorse]

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I just bought 2 bags Friday. Both Labeled in Large print- Pellet. I have a bag I have been keeping as a trash bag that I bought several months ago and it also is labeled Pellet. If they changed it maybe my grain mill has not gotten the new bags.

And I buy from a local guy....No TSC near me.

 

[Cara]

Maybe the title should read 'Beware of not reading the tag'.

 

[CityChicker]

Switching from crumbles to pellets is like switching from an electric stove to a gas one- Once you do it, you will wonder how you *ever* managed the other way. Pellets are *so*much easier. There is so much less waste and mess. The birds don't seem to mind either. Mine have always done fine with pellets.

 

[snowhorse]

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I think that is an excellent suggestion seeing as a few of us here had heart attacks.

Checking your feed bag labels is important before just picking them up. I was given non medicated when I had asked for medicated.

 

[redhen]

okay..no need for people to get sarcastic with the OP...geesh people.

They're just worried about their birds not eating and choking on the pellets. A valid concern..IMO.. since they are used to the crumbles.

anyways.. to the OP... just use your blender and blend up the pellets some... it will be fine. Good luck!

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

My Gosh People!!

MY TSC has never carried Layena in Pellets, so I didnt know that Layena Pellets even existed! Why would I ask the feed store for Layena Crumbles, if thats all I new existed? Seems like a waste of breath!

I appologize if I made Layena "Sound Bad," as that was not my intent.

I didnt want people to make the same mistake as me....




PS: They can and have choked on Layena Pellets.

Posted by Sebrite_97

I just had a chicken........ pass on 5 minutes ago. You wanna know why? Because My LOCAL DUMB ol' Tractor Supply Co. went cheap on me and put this stuff as big as rabbit feed in the feed now, instead of the standard, crumbly Layena! My chicks i bought 5 months ago are now pullets! Yay!!! 1 passed on due to a predator.(My Dachsund) The other just passed on because of CHOKING TO DEATH on Its own feed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im never going to the TSC in St. Augustine ever again All my chickens eat the standard, crumbly Layena just fine. If you live in St. Augustine, FLA and have chicks, don't by from the TSC there for your newly aged Pullets. ESPECIALLY small ones: Seramas, Japanese, Sebrights, ext.......

Posted by EweSheep :

PICK UP ONLY!

I have an unopened 50 lb bag of Layena PELLETED feed that my feed store will not refund or return and probably a 40 lb feed of same thing, opened. My girls will not eat pellets and one of my bantams choked on it. I've always had crumbles and they do waste alot of it but pellets are not the answer, choking and girls are not eating.

$16.00 for both bags of feed.

Also, Thanks redhen.