Feeding dog food to molting chickens?

[rocking2r]

You suggest feeding dog food to molting chickens to increase their protein intake. I assume your mean dry kibble, but does anyone have a suggestion as to how much to feed, or what brand?

 

[Gallinarium]

I haven't heard about feeding dog food to chickens.
You can give them a little canned cat food to up their protein.

 

[rocking2r]

You suggest feeding dog food to molting chickens to increase their protein intake. I assume your mean dry kibble, but does anyone have a suggestion as to how much to feed, or what brand?

In backyard chickens.com in an article about how to help molting chickens, this is written, “ Besides the normal chicken feed, you should provide foods with extra protein such as: oatmeal, quinoa, scrambled or hard boiled eggs, meat scraps, corn, peas, dry dog or cat food, tuna fish, black oil sunflower seeds and soybean meal.”

 

[Gallinarium]

In backyard chickens.com in an article about how to help molting chickens, this is written, “ Besides the normal chicken feed, you should provide foods with extra protein such as: oatmeal, quinoa, scrambled or hard boiled eggs, meat scraps, corn, peas, dry dog or cat food, tuna fish, black oil sunflower seeds and soybean meal.”

Unless you soaked it into mush or ground it up, wouldn't the chickens choke on the large pieces?

 

[Percheron chick]

That's one reason cat food is preferred over dog food. Cat food is also significantly higher in protein. I just toss out a handful like scratch.

 

[Mossy Dell]

I like Diamond small breed puppy, 32%. Very small kibble.

For maintenance and molt, 5% /.5 part is good to raise the protein a bit without giving them too much protein or fat. I use a 10 part feed mix. 1 part is a 3 quart scoop, so .5 is a 1.5 quart scoop. For example, just to show what I mean:

5 parts laying pellets
2 parts corn
2 parts wheat
.5 part sunflower
.5 dog food

 

[rocking2r]

What brand cat food do you use? I'm thinking that it should be a fairly small kibble

 

[rocking2r]

I like Diamond small breed puppy, 32%. Very small kibble.

For maintenance and molt, 5% /.5 part is good to raise the protein a bit without giving them too much protein or fat. I use a 10 part feed mix. 1 part is a 3 quart scoop, so .5 is a 1.5 quart scoop. For example, just to show what I mean:

5 parts laying pellets
2 parts corn
2 parts wheat
.5 part sunflower
.5 dog food

 

[rocking2r]

Do you soak the kibble?

 

[Mossy Dell]

No.