When do you guys start your young birds on oyster shell and laying feed?
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When do you guys start your young birds on oyster shell and laying feed?
Can bantams handle regular size oyster shell?
Can bantams handle regular size oyster shell?
I give it to mine. They seem to break it up just fine.
I also just put some 8-week old youngens in with my older silkies and cochins. And the older ones have been on layer feed. I usually switch to layer around 16-17 weeks. How bad it is to let the younger ones eat the layer feed?
You could get a bunch of different answers.
Although it's not recommended I have some 4 months old eating layer and it has not hurt them that I can tell.
The layer feed has several times more calcium than starter/grower and the concern is buildup of calcium in the kidneys etc. Whereas these little ones aren't using the calcium and passing it on in the eggs(not laying yet) , makes the kidneys work harder I suppose