egglayer feed

[DaKid]

Ok I use egglayer pellets for my chickens , on the back of the bag it list that 1/4 lb per bird daily.

how many follow this or do you just fill ur feeders with food daily and let them eat what ever and when ever .
I have been filling my feeder which whole about 10 lbs of food soom days they will eat the whole thing plus I give them treats 3-4 times a week.
the pen or chickens I talking about is now at 18 hens and one roo.

If I follow what the bag infor. as to 1/4 lb per bird daily that would be about 5 lbs of feed daily for 20 birds.

what or how do ya'll feed and about how much and how many chickens are you feeding daily



Thanks
Al.

 

[speckledhen]

I'm feeding 52 chickens. They have food in the feeders 24/7. We go through a 50# bag of layer feed per week and about 20 lb of scratch, maybe less, really because it's about 1/4 of a 50# bag of scratch (11-grain).

They also freerange most of every day, so they're finding other things to eat around the property.

 

[DaKid]

mine are in a large fence in run
I go through 200 lbs plus egglayer a month plus 100 lbs plus of crack corn that is feeding all my chickens ;
20 asst. Bantams
40 asst. layers and 6 roo's

just seems the more feed there is the more they eat and just poop it out.

 

[digitS']

I don't know, DaKid, it doesn't seem like they are far off the .25 lb daily. Maybe even a little short of it.

You've got 46 standards and 20 bantams. Let's just say a nice round 50 chickens.

Your 300 lbs of feed goes to 6 lbs/chicken/month. That's .2 lb per day each.

Steve

 

[DaKid]

hi steve
but the 1/4 i would thing would be for the standards .
I would think 1/4 lb would feed at lease 4 bantams there little japanese

i can't see a bantam eating 2lbs of feed if so thats one fat cat