- Apr 19, 2013
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I have 3 ages of chickens, in one coop I have chicks that are 1 week old, broilers on 19% grower, I thought I got 21% starter, just realized today they gave me the wrong bags, but the difference for them doesn't bother me, I think it may be good for them, right?
In my layer coop, I have 21 layers, and a rooster on 17% layer feed, in a hanging feeder. I have 1.5 bags left of this, they prefer pellets over crumbles (when they molted this spring I got them a bag of 19% feed)
In a wire crate I have 12 - 4 almost 5 week old EE's on 21% starter, for now, the bag is half gone. They can get out of the crate (this is on purpose) and I have caught them eating the powder from the laying pellets , they have their own food and water in the crate, and it's their safe place (they still don't like the pellets, I don't think they are big enough)
I'm starting to wonder what to do when I run out of any one kind, the broilers are easy, they are in a separate coop, and I am to lazy to transfer feed back and forth, so I can and will buy them their own feed. My decision is on the layers, I don't want my grown layers to get fat, on a higher protein feed also the grower is more expensive both kinds are $10 for a 20kg bag, while the layer is $11 for a 25 kg bag. I'm assuming the price difference has to do with the fact that the growers and starter have an extra step, in taking pellets down to a crumble. At the rate they are going through the current bag of starter, it will last 2-3 weeks, I've got 1 - 1.5 weeks or so of layer pellets.
I get from a local mill, the options are 21% starter, 19% and 17% grower (all crumbles) and 17% layer pellets.
This should be easy, so I'm probably over thinking it, what do you all think?
In my layer coop, I have 21 layers, and a rooster on 17% layer feed, in a hanging feeder. I have 1.5 bags left of this, they prefer pellets over crumbles (when they molted this spring I got them a bag of 19% feed)
In a wire crate I have 12 - 4 almost 5 week old EE's on 21% starter, for now, the bag is half gone. They can get out of the crate (this is on purpose) and I have caught them eating the powder from the laying pellets , they have their own food and water in the crate, and it's their safe place (they still don't like the pellets, I don't think they are big enough)
I'm starting to wonder what to do when I run out of any one kind, the broilers are easy, they are in a separate coop, and I am to lazy to transfer feed back and forth, so I can and will buy them their own feed. My decision is on the layers, I don't want my grown layers to get fat, on a higher protein feed also the grower is more expensive both kinds are $10 for a 20kg bag, while the layer is $11 for a 25 kg bag. I'm assuming the price difference has to do with the fact that the growers and starter have an extra step, in taking pellets down to a crumble. At the rate they are going through the current bag of starter, it will last 2-3 weeks, I've got 1 - 1.5 weeks or so of layer pellets.
I get from a local mill, the options are 21% starter, 19% and 17% grower (all crumbles) and 17% layer pellets.
This should be easy, so I'm probably over thinking it, what do you all think?
