Feeders For your Cornish X

[CoopCrazy]

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So how do you adjust the height of the feeder to prevent waste, contaminated or wet feed and discomfort to the bird from the feeder being to high

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I Love this idea... I think I may actually have some left over guttering at my house.. Great idea...Not really. Thanks

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Wow Neil you are very opinionated arent you ... So all the posts and research i have done that calls for 12 hr s on and 12 hrs off is incorrect???? So how do YOU control weight gain so your birds arent dying? Or breaking there legs??? I just dont see where 6 hrs will make a difference..

 

[Dogfish]

Actually,

Neil's responses were pretty much matter of fact with no emotion or insult intended from what I saw. Somebody asked for an opinion. Everyone has them. JMHO.

Learn a little bit from everybody and see what works best for you.

 

[TimG]

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I think part of it may have had something to do with the unconventional way in which he quoted and inserted his comments in bold. Sort of like yelling.

I also read an in-your-face, I-know-everything, sort of attitude in Neil's comments. But, that may have been influenced by all the yelling.

 

[Dennis A]

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DOWNSPOUT?
I am getting ready to tractor mine and was thinking about gutters.
Thank's All
Dennis

 

[CARS]

This is the only thing I disagreed with (since we are analyzing Neil's reply

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"Way to much unless you want to store feed in it while it looses quality wating for the birds to eat it "

Why would there be anymore loss in quality with a feeder open v/s an open bag of feed or a bulk bin that has a months supply in it???

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

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I think part of it may have had something to do with the unconventional way in which he quoted and inserted his comments in bold. Sort of like yelling.

I also read an in-your-face, I-know-everything, sort of attitude in Neil's comments. But, that may have been influenced by all the yelling.

The boldface type was intended to diferentiate the information I offered from the original posts.

My comments are based on experience and information that I have gathered from what are generally considered to be well informed sources on the subject matter.

 

[schmism]

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Why would there be anymore loss in quality with a feeder open v/s an open bag of feed or a bulk bin that has a months supply in it???

because generally in an open trough type feeder, it is very easy for the birds to climb on top, poop in it, it get rained on, etc affecting virtually all the feed (due to exposed surface area)

in a dispensing type of feeder the only feed "out" is that at the bottom of the dispenser, leaving the rest up in "storage" in the feeder body protected.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Neil,

Correct me if I'm wrong, your talking mainly about commercial broilers in confinement here right? Are they not started on a higher protein first than backed to a 15-16% to grow out? Most people on here, use a 22% all the way through and the birds grow super fast on it. I think with the lower protein in the commercial flocks they are able to eat round the clock. I'm battling the same issue you here as I'm confused on wether to feed them with the natural daylight or to add supplemental light.

From what I have been told, after a couple of weeks the birds do not need the extra protein and they grow well enough on the 16%. Would this be why commercial systems feed 18-22 hours a day? I have to admit some batches that I push too hard with the 22% do not do well and have extremely labored breathing with 24/7 feeding. After I back them off to a daylight feeding schedule they slow down a bit with the breathing and actually do well with the rest.

I think also, many on here look at what they believe is best for the bird, not really the profit part of it.



To others....

Neil has a lot to offer as far as knowledge, supplies, and an insight of how things are done commercially. I doubt he was yelling, nice guy if you get to talk to him really knows his stuff...

 

[jaku]

The trough feeders empty too quickly. Make a feeder for almost nothing using a five gallon bucket and a metal feed pan (the plans are on here somewhere.) It holds SO much more food.

 

[becky3086]

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Oh good. Now I don't know what I am supposed to do.

So the few that I bought have a bag of 24% and after they finish that, I guess, I will get a bag with lower protein? My feeding schedule so far is, when I am here they get food and when I am not, they might run out. So far they seem to be doing fine, lol.