crack corn

[IDIOT HUSBAND]

My RIR pullets are about 11 weeks old they are fully feathered and look healthy. My question is, When I was at the feed store I bought some crack corn to give to my girls from time to time. They love it is it that bad to give them that much? The rest of the time they eat grower/finisher, grit, and whatever else comes from the garden.

 

[the 412 chicks]

ya I get 535 pound of feed from a grainry and it has 300 pound of cracked corn in it so i dont see why a lil wont hurt them at all.

 

[Amethyste]

cracked corn is basically scratch for most part...like chicken candy

Yes they can have it and they will gorge if you let them lol

 

[Big C]

We feed whole corn along with Purina layer pellets.

 

[txchickie]

I feed quite a bit of cracked corn, along with free choice starter crumbles and all the free-ranging they can get

 

[d73]

I use whole corn as a treat. I've read that cracked grain of any type losses a lot of nutrition.

 

[kathyinmo]

I think it's ok for a treat, but for their diet to be nutritionally balanced it should consist of 90 - 95% from the appropriate feed (starter / grower or layer).

 

[Judy]

They do love corn and it won't hurt them a bit.... bit it is not as high in protein as they need, and of course has no vitamins and other nutrients added, as regular feed does. It is great for a treat, though.

 

[Royal Blue]

Cracked corn is OK as a treat/scratch sometime, but you don't want to feed it all the time. As someone else here said.."IT IS CANDY" now, would you feed your children a bowl of MMs for every meal? They might like it, but it will stunt their growth. Chickens are the same when it comes to good food and water. Garbage in produces sickly birds.

 

[fowler_chick]

i mix my own feed, i take a storage bin (walmart kind) add 1 50 pound bag of crumble, 30 pounds of cracked corn (and no it doesn't lose any nutients if whole or cracked) and a 20 pounds of milo in to the mix, they are also starting to get poly-vi-sol drops in there water every 3 days