Highest percentage protein for chicks?

[ninabeast]

What is the highest healthy percentage of protein for chicks? Setting aside the issues of blackhead (of which I am well aware) I would like to brood my three-week old chicks and my baby heritage poults together. Is there any way the chicks can eat the higher-protein feed poults require?

Thanks.

 

[Red Barn Farms]

This is a very interesting question so here's a bump ^ ^

I'm feeding my young pullets 22% crumble. However I really do need to do more research on this topic.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

The chicks cannot really use the extra protein so it is wasted on them, but you can brood chicks and poults together and feed them all gamebird starter (28-30% protein). I would not keep them on it however past six to eight weeks at the most however. Beyond that point you need to bring the protein down to under 24% and preferably to 20% to give their skeletal structure time to catch up.