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humblehillsfarm
Crazy chicken lady
Do you do 12 hours on and 12 hours off with feed? Or continuous feed availability?By and large, the problem with the wrong feed are ones of duration and dosage. I would absolutely use the 30% feed, PARTICULARLY as you have meaties. Your concerns with those are rapid growth to table, nothing else. Well, cost - but as you already have the bag, that ship has sailed.
FWIW, most of the literature I've read puts meaties in a target range of 22-24% protein first three weeks, 2% less protein next three weeks. and then finishing at either 18 or 20% after that. I've been quite please with feeding 24% straight thru, and I believe several routine posters in the meat bird threads do similarly (and post better results than I, but they both have better starting birds, and don't free range).