Do you feed BOSS in the summer?

[gryeyes]

Mine get it at least once a day as a treat - I toss some out into the run first thing in the morning so I can take care of tasks without all the feathered folks constantly at my ankles. Sometimes twice a day, if I don't have something else special for the early evening "I'm home from work" treat. It's higher in protein than scratch (which I do not feed my birds) and helps their feathers look really nice.

I used to buy it in the garden section at Lowe's (7# sack) but the feed store has 40 # sacks a whole lot cheaper.

 

[Chris09]

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Try your local Feed Mill they will be the cheapest place to get it and they will sell it by the pound.
The mill I go to sells it for ¢.30 a pound and if you buy it in the 50 pound bag you can get it for $12.00 a bag...

Chris

 

[blefky]

This may be a silly (newbie) question, but we're talking about BOSS in the shell right? I never see it sold hulled, so what I purchased is in the shell.

 

[Dora'smom]

Yes, it's in the shell. They eat it that way. Not a silly question, at all.

 

[33yardbirds]

I give a 50/50 of scratch and BOSS in the morning figureing it gives them all day to grind it down in their gizzards. I also agree that it helps feathering and appearence.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

For special treats, training or to grind up for young chicks, I use some hulled. It's much more expensive hulled, of course. For scratch feed, I use the unhulled seed.

 

[Organics North]

I feed it daily at a rate of 20% year around.
Then again we do not really know what summer is. We hit 90 degrees yesterday and I thought I was going to dye...

Heat is generally not an issue in my part of the world..

ON

 

[laughaha]

I should probably clarify that I have around 80 or so birds and they go through 25lbs per week/or a half of a 50 lb bag. Keeps them looking all fat and sassy as my grandma would say. This would be in addition to the 100lbs of feed per week and freeranging. When they were in a pen and I wasn't able to freerange the chickens, I gave them a bit more per day.

 

[Koolduck]

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What color?

Im sorry...

I couldnt help myself....

....it is die, and you would have done it twice here...our temp yesterday was 97* with a heat index of 104ish! My chixs are not happy even with 2 fans! I dont feed corn to anything in this heat...horse, chixs, people...well, maybe just 2 ears of sweet corn apiece! Stay cool!

 

[Elite Silkies]

My TSC sells the 50# bags for $8.99 and I give it to them about 4 times a week.