Finally found something my girls would eat

[Chickassan]

I'm going to say some good and bad things, nothing negative just truthful. Hemp is an awesome protein source, but you need maybe three times the amount I'm seeing in that handful. You could make that grain mix yourself for less than half what they're charging and still have more hemp content. Your girls love it because no doubt it's delicious, but that can't be an incisive feed maybe a mix in to fluff up a staple crumble diet but as is it's a treat a vitamin fortified treat. I think that site counts on you being new to chickens and not knowing the nutritional needs of them or the extent they're overvalueing their products .

 

[Tammy Lewis]

The OP brings up a point that might be worthwhile experimenting with. Get some scratch and mix some pumpkin, hemp, or flax seed in with it to see if the chickens like it. Not sure where to get hemp seed, but pumpkin and flax seed can be got at health food stores.

That could work. I just like the ease of it being delivered, but we'll see what happens. Thanks!

 

[sylviethecochin]

Welcome to BYC.

Most people here are very skeptical about "scratch-based" feeds, partially because most of them aren't very wholesome, and partially because chickens can and will pick out what they like, thereby unbalancing their diets. And that feed has a 15% Min of crude fat, Which, as I understand feed (and I'm no nutritional expert, though I believe @centrarchid is?) is about three times as high as it should be. And that fiber is a 24% min? To me, it sounds like candy for chickens.

EDT: Just saw the price tag. Very expensive candy for chickens.

 

[Mraya]

I can't believe that it is $11.99 for 7 lbs of feed and a 1/2 lbs of that is oyster shells and you feed them 1/3 lbs per chicken per day.

But if your chickens like I guess that's what counts.

 

[Tammy Lewis]

Welcome to BYC.

Most people here are very skeptical about "scratch-based" feeds, partially because most of them aren't very wholesome, and partially because chickens can and will pick out what they like, thereby unbalancing their diets. And that feed has a 15% Min of crude fat, Which, as I understand feed (and I'm no nutritional expert, though I believe @centrarchid is?) is about three times as high as it should be. And that fiber is a 24% min? To me, it sounds like candy for chickens.

Hey thanks for all this info. We tried a crumble feed we bought off Amazon but they wouldn't touch it. Maybe we'll try mixing this in with something else. What do you recommend that delivers?

 

[Tammy Lewis]

I'm going to say some good and bad things, nothing negative just truthful. Hemp is an awesome protein source, but you need maybe three times the amount I'm seeing in that handful. You could make that grain mix yourself for less than half what they're charging and still have more hemp content. Your girls love it because no doubt it's delicious, but that can't be an incisive feed maybe a mix in to fluff up a staple crumble diet but as is it's a treat a vitamin fortified treat. I think that site counts on you being new to chickens and not knowing the nutritional needs of them or the extent they're overvalueing their products .

Thanks so much for all this info. Might try mixing it in with something else.

 

[Tammy Lewis]

I can't believe that it is $11.99 for 7 lbs of feed and a 1/2 lbs of that is oyster shells and you feed them 1/3 lbs per chicken per day.

But if your chickens like I guess that's what counts.

Yeah the price got me, too, but I was just happy I didn't have to drive out of the city to pick some up. So we'll see! Thanks!

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

... maybe a mix in to fluff up a staple crumble diet ...

Forgive me if you already know this, but mixing scratch with crumble feed is a good way to end up with all of the latter on the floor after the chickens have shoveled it out to get to the scratch. At least that's been my experience...

 

[Tammy Lewis]

Forgive me if you already know this, but mixing scratch with crumble feed is a good way to end up with all of the latter on the floor after the chickens have shoveled it out to get to the scratch. At least that's been my experience...

Yeah that makes sense because they wouldn't eat the crumble, but they're eating all of this. So we'll see. Thanks for the info!

 

[sylviethecochin]

Hey thanks for all this info. We tried a crumble feed we bought off Amazon but they wouldn't touch it. Maybe we'll try mixing this in with something else. What do you recommend that delivers?

They wouldn't touch it? How long was it in there? What was the feed? What was the expiration date on the feed? My chickens will eat almost anything.

I know no source that delivers feed. We live twenty miles from Tractor Supply Co (TSC), fifteen from the other closest feed store, and we just pick it up when we go grocery shopping. Sorry that I can't be more helpful.