Hog Feed for Chickens??? What do ya'll think............Miss Prissy?

[mtnhomechick]

Ok......thanks Miss Prissy.

Now my dumb question.

What is dailt scratch. I have cracked corn that I give them if the temp gets cool. Usually in the evening. But I take your word as gospel'

So, are you saying that with layer crumbles in the am that hog feed is ok as an extra meal? They only free range for a couple hours a day while I watch them. We have predators here.

I want to cut cost but I gotta tell ya that my girls are pets. And darn good egg layers too!

So, waddya say?

Thanks so much for responding.

Mary

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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The Oyster Shell will help with the Calcium deficiency in teh hog feed, but the hog feed will be deficient in Methionine for the chickens.

This won't be an issue if you are just raising your birds for a hobby, however if you are raising the birds for profit like Miss Prissy and me then you need to be on a poultry feed formulated for the stage of production your birds are in.

Jim

 

[MissPrissy]

Compare the tags on the hog feed and the layer ration. How similar are they? That is what I would base my opinion on.

Dailt - typo! daily.

I can't tell you what to feed your chickens. If you do change to hog feed and see problems you'll know why.

 

[cheeze]

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yes lol if one more person says a darn chicken needs some fancy mix of feed im flippin out .

my neighbor has over 50 chickens eating 100% corn and free range .

his hens die of old age at a very old age .

to top that off they look alot better than the sissy cage bred chickens on pellets that yuppies raise

 

[Hobbley_Farm]

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well put. People here have chickens for many different reasons. Thanks for hitting the nail on the nose Mrs Prissy

 

[ozark hen]

when I fill my feeder, in the coop, with layer pellets I always throw in a scoop of pig starter. My chickens love it and have had no problems whatsoever. They kept trying to get into the hog pen to eat what the hogs were eating, thus the hogs ate one of them

so I started giving the chickens some.

 

[Hobbley_Farm]

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holy cow!!!

 

[KellyandKatie]

I am bouncing this thread back up
I grew up in Wis, on a real farm
now i live in the suburbs of WA and have pet chickens
my dad and I get a kick out of comparing how differant things are over here in the Seattle area where folks are so hungry for farm fresh and over in our neck of the woods in Wis where everything is farm fresh
one of the things I was complaining about is how my modest pet flock is costing me an arm and a leg in feed. My birds are free range, but do have a feeder in their coop, but they are outside foraging all day - I don't sell eggs and I don't eat my birds- they are just here, they are pets, I appreciate their eggs, but they do not get evicted if their production goes down
Anyway, my dad was saying that he goes to the co-op and has them coarsely grind the hog feed and bag that up for him, he says he adds oyster shell and of corse his birds are free ranging too
I miss co-ops that actually mix their own feed, what we have here is prebagged foods from someplace else that we pay $16 a 50 pound bag for
my dad did say he thinks that the pre-bagged hog feed would be too fine for chickens- but that 100 pounds is probably comparable to what a 50 pound bag of pellets goes for
in our area we have natural feed companies that mix whole or cracked grains - organic of corse- but that is very pricey- I really would like to feed them a more natural diet like that instead of pellets since, again, I am not profit raising the birds, my birds forage and get left overs-- but again, it is a pricey hobby at the rate they are eating the pellets
I looked into buying my own grains in bulk and mixing myself, but agian, not cost effective for my hobby

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