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[CityChickenJon]

Do you take them off the poultry meal, to a seed type diet, and when would something like that take place? My peeps are just about four weeks old.

 

[cherylcohen]

I use chick start and grow medicated till they are of laying age, then I switch to pellets

 

[Ridgerunner]

I don't quite understand what you mean by a seed/meal diet. Are you talking about chickens, quail, or something else?

 

[CityChickenJon]

Thank you

This is the first time I have ever had any girls. I was not shure if I needed any other food or not. Thakn you again Jon

 

[CityChickenJon]

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Chickens, I have 9 four BRoilers and 5 Isa Browns. I did not know if I needed to switch to a different feed at a certain age. Getting the knowlege, before the time to need it. So know I know that thier is a pellet that I can switch to after egg laying age. At what could they have cracked corn? as a treat only.

 

[Pet Duck Boy]

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Chickens, I have 9 four BRoilers and 5 Isa Browns. I did not know if I needed to switch to a different feed at a certain age. Getting the knowlege, before the time to need it. So know I know that thier is a pellet that I can switch to after egg laying age. At what could they have cracked corn? as a treat only.

Make sure you give the broilers a controlled diet if you plan to keep them for a while. For cracked corn, mine wouldn't take it until they hit 10 weeks.

 

[Ridgerunner]

This site gives excellent advice about feeding chickens, but it is geared to develop laying flocks, not the meat birds. As long as your meat birds are dual purpose breed chickens it will work, but if your broilers are the Cornish cross chicks, I can't help you. Hopefully someone who has raised Cornish crosses with laying chicks can chime in with helpful advice if your broilers are Cornish crosses.

Oregon State - Feeding Chickens
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/pnw/pnw477/#anchor1132074

I strongly suggest reading the article to get better details, but the normal progression for a laying flock is to feed them starter for 6 weeks, then switch to grower until they are 20 weeks old or you get your first egg. Instead of starter and grower, you can sometimes get a combined starter/grower which works until they are laying age. The idea with the laying flock is that you follow this schedule so the pullets have a chance to mature a bit before they start to lay. Some people feed a high protein super diet to try to get the pullets to grow faster and lay earlier, but this can lead to reduced eggs over their lifetime plus it increases the chance of prolapse or them getting egg bound if they start laying before their internal egg laying factory has matured enough to work properly.

Good luck!!!