Chickens not eating layer crumbles

[FireTigeris]

My chickens free range but are not eating their crumble- they were eating all of their grower crumble.

Are my hens really THAT picky?

Any way to correct this?

 

[chookchick]

So you just switched their feed? Did you switch brands also? Is there any possibility that the food is old, stale or moldy?

I got some feed one time that smelled funny (and it happened to be organic of course) and my hens hardly touched it, so I ended up throwing it out. I would respect their opinion of the food, and see if you can replace it with a better quality.

 

[Mahonri]

Quote:
My thoughts too.

The other thing I hate is that chickens will get used to one type of feed.

If I had it to do over again, I would have given them nothing but pellets from the moment I started giving them layer feed.

Now they are so picky they will only eat crumble... and it costs more for some reason.

 

[gsim]

Quote:
My thoughts too.

The other thing I hate is that chickens will get used to one type of feed.

If I had it to do over again, I would have given them nothing but pellets from the moment I started giving them layer feed.

Now they are so picky they will only eat crumble... and it costs more for some reason.

Mix it 50-50 to get them trained. I am going to eventually be all pellets for the simple reason that they are slower to go stale, and are slower to absorb moisture. I commonly keep 6 mo on hand because I do not trust the economy.

 

[FireTigeris]

maybe the other feed store has some, the grower was medicated so i want them off of that.

they seem happy enough otherwise- they are.... um.... 20+ weeks now and just changed voices.

thanx

 

[bmelanco]

If they are hungry they will eat. When mine range, sometiemes they go days with almost not eating any feed....