FunClucks
Crowing
FYI, by real food, what is meant is commercially produced chicken food. There are a lot of options, check out what is available at your local feed store and look the brands/types up on here and you can get an idea on how nutritious it is and whether folks recommend it. A basic layer diet of 16% protein is the minimum. Excellent would be something like 20% protein. Price generally goes up slightly when the protein content does. You can feed all flock feed (good for hens, chicks, roosters, and other fowl) with separate bowls of grit for everyone and oyster shell (calcium supplement) for the laying hens, or you can feed layer feed which is specially designed for laying hens only (calcium in that feed will mess up the liver(?) of chicks and roosters over time).
My favorite is Purina Flockraiser, but there are many good choices out there that have complete nutrition needed for chickens.
If it is a vitamin deficiency, it may take days or months to heal, but healing is possible. There's a few threads on here about hens that came back from vitamin deficiencies and went on to live good lives. Good luck!
My favorite is Purina Flockraiser, but there are many good choices out there that have complete nutrition needed for chickens.
If it is a vitamin deficiency, it may take days or months to heal, but healing is possible. There's a few threads on here about hens that came back from vitamin deficiencies and went on to live good lives. Good luck!
