Confused- What would you put in a custom mix from Mill for Breeders

[FrenchToast]

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I just looked at a bag of CalfManna at Fleet Farm Store yesterday. If I'm not mistaken I think the protein is 24%, could be wrong, memory plays tricks on me lately !!!

It says for poultry just one TBLS a day?? So depending on how many chickens you have this would be a good supplement IMO. It was priced at around $24 for 50#.
If you go to www.mannapro.com you can get a coupon for $2.00 off a 50# bag or $1.00 their gamebird/showbird bag which I think is outragiously price. About $1.00 a pound !!! They only carried a 5 lb bag !! Alot of good that would do around here !

 

[FrenchToast]

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I think most Layer formulas are 16%.
My mill guy said most mills have basically the same recipe but can get that using different grains etc.

I think of it as kind of like Mexican and Italian Food, It's got all the same stuff but just put together differently !!!

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

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That's actually brilliant - I was just reading the research on it. Broilers were fed various carb sources (whole and ground grain) and the protein concentrate in different feeders. They consistently "mixed" their own food according to their needs and ended up averaging about the same as a complete diet, but individual birds could go way up or way down from that depending on what they felt they needed (and, interestingly, the broilers often chose on their own to lower their protein after they were five weeks old and thus grew slower).

 

[onehorse_2000]

I feed my horses this way with their vitamins and minerals and they do much better then any other fashion of feeding I have tried with them, so why not the chickens too. The gal that I was talking with said that it actually costs her less to feed this way then with a conventional feed, since they only eat what they need when they need it instead of wasting it and she said that her game birds which need a higher protien definitely eat more of the protien mix then the other chickens. But the documenation that she pointed me to said to use a max of 3 different choices, but if I do a carb offering, protien, and a vitamin/mineral offering, I am wondering what to do with the other things that I should be offering that not everyone needs, like grit, DE, or calcuim?

I am located in PA, we feed organics and I have a local guy that mill mill whatever I would like with all organic ingredients. I am still checking vitamin/mineral supplements, as selenium is an issue here. The gal I was talking with did Red Cell in the water, but I have also read that Red Cell is too high in iron for chickens, so ...

I am still working on what we are going to do, but I definitely want to get away from the powdery stuff, as that is wasted feed and money and I want to find a better breeder formula.

 

[droberts]

I have my own customized blend that I formulated that a local mill mixes for me
I get it for $185-$208 a ton depending on the time of year that is 4.65-5.25 for 50 lb
My chickens grow faster and lay well on it, weight gain has increased by 15-20% over commercial feed
I am planning on marketing it in the spring.
makeup is
25% cracked corn
25% DDG (dried distillers grain)
25% corn chips(frito lay scrap high in fat)
25% all stock pellets
they analyzed it at 16% protein

David