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Wyorp Rock said:
Do you have a photo of the tag on your feed (nutritional analysis) or of the bag?
Scratch is a treat and so is the corn on the cob. Aim for any treats to be no more than 5-10% of their daily intake depending on the protein content of your poultry feed.

I love to give mine a treat too, but 2 cups of scratch is too much:)
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the feed don't say anything on it i think the lady makes it herself? I don't know lol. it has a name thou It's called extreme feeds chicken nutrition the scratch is the same red bag but says scratch feed. there is no nutrition information on the bags. they are just red and say "extreme feeds chicken nutrition" and extreme feeds chicken scratch. from what it looks like the scratch has corn, sunflower seeds, some little round ball seeds like bird seed on a bird feeder and looks like there is some kind of other seeds i never seen before.
ill cut back on the scratch if you think its too much. that stuff is so high priced. the normal feed is $8 for 50lbs then the scratch is like $16 for 25lbs so yea that would be a money saver there.
 
How old are you chickens?

Yes, I would drastically cut back on the scratch - a mix like that really should be no more than 1 tablespoon for each bird.
I know that some places do mix or mill feed, but personally I would want to see the guaranteed analysis and ingredients. Not all feeds are created equal. If your chickens have not begun to lay yet, I highly recommend that you put them on a chick starter feed, then you can switch them to a layer feed if you wish when they all start laying eggs.
 
Wyorp Rock said:
How old are you chickens?

Yes, I would drastically cut back on the scratch - a mix like that really should be no more than 1 tablespoon for each bird.
I know that some places do mix or mill feed, but personally I would want to see the guaranteed analysis and ingredients. Not all feeds are created equal. If your chickens have not begun to lay yet, I highly recommend that you put them on a chick starter feed, then you can switch them to a layer feed if you wish when they all start laying eggs.
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I got the chicks Feb 3rd and she(feed store owner) told me they were 4 weeks old. its now june 18th so i'm guessing they are 6 months old? ok so I'll change the amount of scratch thankyou for the information. I'd buy from a different feed store but none other than her's deliver. I fractured 2 verteba and compressed 3 discs when I fell when making my coop, the door fell on me and really messed up my back when I was hanging it so I can't really carry anything that heavy so she brings the feed and straw for in the coop.
 
frostic said:
I got the chicks Feb 3rd and she(feed store owner) told me they were 4 weeks old. its now june 18th so i'm guessing they are 6 months old? ok so I'll change the amount of scratch thankyou for the information. I'd buy from a different feed store but none other than her's deliver. I fractured 2 verteba and compressed 3 discs when I fell when making my coop, the door fell on me and really messed up my back when I was hanging it so I can't really carry anything that heavy so she brings the feed and straw for in the coop.
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I'm sorry to hear about your injuries, I hope you will have a speedy recovery.

If the photo of your birds that you posted are current, they are still quite young looking to me, but I do see a little bit of pinking up. You may see a difference in them once you limit the scratch and they start eating more of their feed.
 
Wyorp Rock said:
I'm sorry to hear about your injuries, I hope you will have a speedy recovery.

If the photo of your birds that you posted are current, they are still quite young looking to me, but I do see a little bit of pinking up. You may see a difference in them once you limit the scratch and they start eating more of their feed.
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the pictures of the coop was done 2 months ago. they are big fatties now about double the size they are in that picture.. I just don't have a way to take new pictures. my friend took the pictures for me.
 
Wyorp Rock said:
LOL O.K. Good to know! :)
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here u go i got some pictures of them!
blondie is the one in the middle. you can see how light colored she is than the other 2. and shes the smallest one of them.

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Another hot day, we hit 114F today and I seen all 3 of my chickens throwing up... once the sun went down i checked their crop and 2 of them was empty and one full but liquidy. all 3 of them was way over heated, today was the first day I gave them watermelon. and was scared it was from them eating the watermelon but found nothing about watermelon causing chickens to get sick. I watched a few videos about sour crop because one of my ladies had foul breath. I turned her upside down in my lap and massaged her crop, within 1 minute she threw up really gooey foul smelling brown goo. i think the heat is causing her stomach issues. she gets this way every day that it gets over 95 degrees. even when i put ice in their water, have a piece of watermelon in the shade, kept them cool having water running over the coop roof and soaking the ground 5 times today, keeping their coop/run cooled down each time i noticed they would be active and seemed ok when i was cooling the coop. it was so nice feeling the cool air coming out of the coop because standing in the heat it was so hot i wanted to pass out. you could feel the cool air coming from the coop and run. it was strange that the coop/run was cold and it was a scorcher when you left the coop/run you could drastically feel the difference of the air around it.

I'm thinking it is sour crop? is there anything I need to buy for them incase she does have sour crop?
 

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