Crumbles or Pellets

[dacdeihl]

Do you find that your chickens eat crumbles faster than pellets. What do you prefer?

I fed them crumbles on Wednesday because the bags were on sale, a five gallon bucket. When to collect eggs last night and it was empty!!! Porkers. I have two five gallon feeders for 28 chickens. Granted I shut them up because of all the rain and how muddy their run was. So, anyways... do your chickens eat crumbles faster than pellets?

 

[Imp]

A lot of people believe that chickens waste the crumbles, by spilling them.

Imp

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Pellets go threw my feeders better. Crumbles clog them up

 

[Kittymomma]

I like pellets. I think there is a lot of waste when feeding crumbles. Not only do they seem to spill more, much of it turns to dust and clogs the bottom of my feeders. If you have been feeding crumble and choose to switch to pellets be sure to watch the birds carefully. Sometimes older birds have a hard time recognizing the new shape as food and while they will eat it eventually they can nearly starve themselves before they figure it out. You can end up with all kinds of health problems if the birds don't get enough feed, especially this time of year. My .02 good luck with whatever you decide to do.

 

[bigoakhunter]

Mine went through crumbles alot fater than pellets....not sure if they wasted them or pigged out. So I have stuck to pellets.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

I get more eggs feeding pellets.
If they spill any, they can pick it up, whereas crumbles disappear in the bedding

 

[Amethyste]

Mine prefer the pellets over crumbles. The crumbles to me seem to be wasted a lot more than the pellets. They also seem to no be billed out as much either...so I dont argue. Only reason we ahd them on crumbles was cos of the babies in the coop. They vastly outnumbered the two big girls so everyone was on crumbles.

 

[felidaet]

I only feed pellets. No crumbles. I have read many posts on this topic over the last year and almost everyone seems to feel there is a lot of waste with crumbles. When I started feeding layer pellets I immediately started using pellets.

 

[Mahonri]

I've got to get back to pellets, they just eat the crumbles too fast.

 

[ChookHappy]

While we are on the subject I was curious if I planned to move them to pellets after being on crumbles their whole life if it would help to slowly mix the two until they figure out to eat the pellets?