I add warm water to the crumbles to make a mash. Seems to make it more appealing.
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I see this was two years ago but I'm new to chickens starting in October and am finding much helpful info here. I too went to the local feed store, the chick starter bag was almost gone, the chicks were eight weeks old. She told me to go right to the layer mash. Now they are 14.5 weeks old and I just read about the too much calcium issue! So, I bought a bag of grower crumbles and the poor girls seem to be on a hunger strike. Will they start eating it when they are hungry enough? I hated the mash...SO MUCH WASTED FEED!! But I really don't want tontorture them either...