Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

My chickens didn’t like the pellets I bought once before, I used it for their morning hot porridge, there is a short cut pellets feed o was wondering about, might try that.

Right now I am feeding half and half Jones 18% Layer and Jones 17.5% Grower to lower the calcium amt for Mr P.

They do need time to get used to pellets when switching even gradually. Hunger is the best trainer!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Yes it annoys me that Purina doesn’t put the ingredients on their website and on the feed bag tags.

The other suppliers put the ingredient on their feed bag tags and usually somewhere on the website.

Except this new feed my feedmill babies have been using now supplies, I couldn’t find an ingredient list anywhere for the Jones Layer or Grower the feed bag tag didn’t have that info.

I can call them up and ask for the ingredient and full feed list.

PS I did get this analysis from the Purina web site, but it was the USA site.

 

[Ponypoor]

Chewy says they will deliver to Toronto, is that where you’re near? Maybe you can find out by chat or a call what they will ship (probably expensive though). When I tried to browse the Chewy.ca site it wasn’t coming up with much in the way of chicken feed and I couldn’t tell if it was working.

Never heard of them, went and checked it out, nothing on the Canadian side, but you have a lot of variety on the US side. We just don’t have the variety here, likely because we also only have about 10% of the US population and the number of people keeping chickens is very small.

I am sure they would ship here but with the dollar exchange and shipping it would be extremely expensive.

If I lived closer to the border I would make trips across and get feed (and hope not to get stopped at the border coming back across hahaha). But I am 3 hrs to the border so that’s a lot of fuel to spend for feed, not to mention the exchange rate on the dollar.

Anyway I look at it, it’s expensive. I might give the Purina mill here inOntario and ask why they don’t make the all flock available here.

 

[Ponypoor]

They do need time to get used to pellets when switching even gradually. Hunger is the best trainer!

Yes I always slow mix in the new feeds, but the little monsters kicked it out all over the place and wasted most of it brats!

When I made the porridge for them they ate it fine, little monsters haha.

There is still plenty of feed left in my bins at the moment so I have a bit of time to find something. But I don’t like the Jones so not using it, and the feed store I have been using only has that brand of chicken feed.

I might try Peavey Marts brand and see what it’s like…

 

[Ponypoor]

PS I did get this analysis from the Purina web site, but it was the USA site.

Yes I noticed that, really annoys me! Not sure the big secret here with posting it on the CA sites for Purina.

How is Anna today

 

[bgmathteach]

I actually quite often use shredded paper - which they like, but tends to stick to the bloom on the egg.

Yes! I used to get bags and bags of shredded paper from where I work - until they started putting paper to be shredded in locking bins and outsources the actual shredding. If the freshly laid egg touched a strip of colored paper, it would sometimes transfer onto the egg.

I should have just marketed it as a specialty 'decoupage eggs' and got real money for them!

It was fine in nest boxes - except for the occasional bleed-through of color. I found when it got wet from the droppings, it matted very quickly, so I wouldn't use it 'straight up' in the coop - just the nest boxes. In the coop I would mix it with shavings. I really wouldn't recommend it for bedding, but it was free and I literally would get 3-5 trach bags of it whenever they shredded...so I felt obliged to utilize it!

 

[RoyalChick]

Chewy says they will deliver to Toronto, is that where you’re near? Maybe you can find out by chat or a call what they will ship (probably expensive though). When I tried to browse the Chewy.ca site it wasn’t coming up with much in the way of chicken feed and I couldn’t tell if it was working.

I use Chewy to deliver Kalmbach 20% All Flock.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes! I used to get bags and bags of shredded paper from where I work - until they started putting paper to be shredded in locking bins and outsources the actual shredding. If the freshly laid egg touched a strip of colored paper, it would sometimes transfer onto the egg.

I should have just marketed it as a specialty 'decoupage eggs' and got real money for them!

It was fine in nest boxes - except for the occasional bleed-through of color. I found when it got wet from the droppings, it matted very quickly, so I wouldn't use it 'straight up' in the coop - just the nest boxes. In the coop I would mix it with shavings. I really wouldn't recommend it for bedding, but it was free and I literally would get 3-5 trach bags of it whenever they shredded...so I felt obliged to utilize it!

I fling it about everywhere but I also put in lots of leaves.
I have even put in un-shredded paper. With the brown packing paper it works quite well as the Princesses are skilled shredders!

 

[bgmathteach]

Never heard of them, went and checked it out, nothing on the Canadian side, but you have a lot of variety on the US side. We just don’t have the variety here, likely because we also only have about 10% of the US population and the number of people keeping chickens is very small.

I am sure they would ship here but with the dollar exchange and shipping it would be extremely expensive.

If I lived closer to the border I would make trips across and get feed (and hope not to get stopped at the border coming back across hahaha). But I am 3 hrs to the border so that’s a lot of fuel to spend for feed, not to mention the exchange rate on the dollar.

Anyway I look at it, it’s expensive. I might give the Purina mill here inOntario and ask why they don’t make the all flock available here.

Definitely inquire - call first, but certainly follow up with a message in a public place like on FB on their consumer page, or something. Maybe if enough people respond - it might make a change.

It did with TSC/Dumor. I wanted organic, was buying other brands, but repeatedly called and/or sent emails and once sent a snail mail letter. They now carry organic feed. I am sure I wasn't the only one, but the more that reach out, the better! It took 2 years from when I started my 'campaign'.

 

[bgmathteach]

As long as not barley, use wheat or oat straw.

I didn't know this about Barley - thanks for this!

I have even put in un-shredded paper. With the brown packing paper it works quite well as the Princesses are skilled shredders!

Ha, no wonder why your girls unionized! Forcing them to do the tedious task of shredding paper!

I'll have to try this! I usually tear it up into smaller pieces, or shred it using a small personal shredder (that only works if I can get most of the wrinkles out, though, as it is a cheap shredder and bogs down if too much thickness enters the shute.)

Tax:

Poor molting girl - feathers are very rumpled looking

@RoyalChick - you like the green sheen - maybe this boy would fit in with your flock!

(No real worries, just teasing, as he is a keeper - he is 1/2 sibling to Babs.)