Conversion from Chick to Adult feed at 16 wks

[yakibert]

OK, I'm 16 wks ...am on my last couple days of Chick Feed. I'm almost out of Chick feed and my options are the 5lb bag for about $6.00 or the 50lb bag for about $12.00

Should I buy another 5lb bag of chick feed to hold me over to the 18 week mark or should I go ahead and convert to adult feed and buy the 50lb bag.

 

[HEChicken]

You should be fine switching them to the layer now.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Adult feed? Do you mean Layer?

You have a choice. You can continue to feed any number of kinds of feed. Grower, Starter (non medicated) Flock Raiser/All Flock and offer calcium source, like shells, on the side. They pick them as they need them.

Layer isn't anything other than regular feed except that it has the calcium carbonate ground right into it. At 16 weeks, your birds would be just fine switching to Layer.

 

[yakibert]

Yes, I mean Layer ..sorry I can see why my choice of words was not quite right

 

[yakibert]

OK, I bought Purina Layer crumbles and the bag is making me feel bad. It keeps repeating to only feed to 18 + week old pullets. I'm on 16-17 (closer to 17 wks) ..it will be 3-4 days before start the Layer. But they sure grill the 18 weeks.

 

[HEChicken]

Its fine. Really. As Fred said, another option is to use grower formula and offer oyster shell on the side for any who start to lay and need the extra calcium. But I would not hesitate to put a 16-week-old on layer feed, so you really don't need to make another trip to the feed store

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[yakibert]

OK, good! Thank you both!