Extra food suggestions?

[Ol Grey Mare]

We have Bar Ale Poultry feed for our outside flock.

Is it a layer (calcium enriched) formula or not?

 

[Banditschickens]

Maybe I am wrong ?
Would cornmeal work?
It's finely ground corn.
Grit's also you would have to wet it down I believe.
I sometimes have old cornmeal that I make into a
Big 16 inch skillet of cornbread then I crumble it up as a treat.

 

[KikiDeAnime]

Is it a layer (calcium enriched) formula or not?

It just says that its for all poultry

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

It just says that its for all poultry

What is the calcium percentage? Is it pellet or crumble?

 

[Ebony Rose]

Adding to the list of emergency options offered above, I've tried to think about what you might already have in your kitchen: You can also put popcorn, raw rice, dried PEAS (not beans) into a blender and grind that down to add to your 'emergency' food supplies for the week. Applesauce, yogurt (preferably plain), grated cheese, canned sardines (or other canned fish, packed in oil or water, serve it with the liquid as lots of nutrients are in that and would bind the powdery bits of feed that you have left for the week so that the dust doesn't just blow away), hamburger, appropriately sized fruit and veggie bits (check the treats page on the forum), they like canned fruit & veggies too, but caution on salt content on those veggies / sugar content on canned fruits. Grated carrots and taters are often overlooked and mine just **love** them. Cooked spaghetti, unsalted, perhaps add a pat of butter to the finished noodles to provide some fats. Almost anything leftover from your dinner will work as an add-in during this crisis. This list isn't for an every-day forever diet, but will work 'in a pinch', for the time-frame that you're talking about. By week's end, you'll have a very good idea of your flocks favorites too.

 

[Banditschickens]

Good Luck

 

[Kfults]

My chicks loved dried oatmeal old fashion oats. I would grind up and give it to them as a treat ( read on BYC ) it was good for pasty butt. That was last year when they were babies!

 

[PouleChick]

If it is all flock feed i wouldn't think even slightly too high calcium would cause issues over less than a week. You would need to crush it up to chick size and mix it in with the starter that you are short on to eek it out. Good luck!

 

[KikiDeAnime]

Went to the store and bought Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. The chicks were a little confused but I'm sure they'll eat them.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Those are good as treats, but feeding your chicks just berries for a week isn't going to make for very happy chicks. They need protein.