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[Chicken Egg 17]

I'm trying to figure out, if I get a poult feed, if I can feed it to the ducks. I know ducks need extra niacin, if I gave a chick feed, so what's the difference if I use a turkey feed???

You can make your own feed and give the chickens some with additional calcium, the ducks and the turkeys the same mixture but with less calcium and more protein.

 

[SilverHair]

HAha, if I get a second brooder, to keep the poults and ducks separate, so they can each have their own feed, my husband may just shoot me.

Oh well, better to just buy what I need and ask to be forgiven instead of asking permission.

I was told this morning if I build the runs any bigger my lady said she would leave, gonna miss her

 

[DwayneNLiz]

You can make your own feed and give the chickens some with additional calcium, the ducks and the turkeys the same mixture but with less calcium and more protein.

they are babies they dont need the extra calcium yet

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@kajira

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/duckling-care-brooder-ideas

 

[SilverHair]

BTW afternoon all :beer:

 

[DwayneNLiz]

BTW afternoon all :beer:

 

[kajira]

You can make your own feed and give the chickens some with additional calcium, the ducks and the turkeys the same mixture but with less calcium and more protein.

I don't have time for that right now - but these will be babies. Day old poults/ducklings shipped next week. I wanted to make my life easier, and hoped they could just eat the same feed. I wasn't sure if the 28% protien in turkey feed, would hurt them if I used it until the turkey's were big enough to switch over to an all flock feed.

 

[SilverHair]

Amen

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Biggest I ever had was 15.2, which got awfully tall after a day of mounting and dismounting at a field trial, or when I had to mount from the downhill side. Fortunately I trained them all to accept mounting or dismounting from either side

 

[kajira]

BTW afternoon all :beer:

I just wrote an article today for a client, about all the health benefits of beer.

I wish I could have one. My local walmart doesn't sell the gluten-free beers... so you'll have to drink one for me.