I'm feeding my chicks Homestead Fastgrow. They are 5-6 weeks old. The bag of feed doesn't have any ingredients or the amount of protein it has anywhere that I could see. I was reading in Raising chickens for dummies that at about 6 -14 weeks they should have grower feed, 15-22 weeks developer or finishing feed, then at 22 weeks or when the first egg is laid, layer feed. Our local feed store told my dh that grower and layer were the same thing. If that's true, you wouldn't want to feed your young chicks layer feed. Isn't that too much protein for their little bodies? We have a 2 yr old flock and I can't remember what we fed them before 22 weeks, but about that time we started to feed them layer feed. So should we feed them the fastgrow for a while longer or should I look elsewhere for grower feed? We have several feed mills in our area. Also, does any one else use homestead fastgrow? When we bought our feed, we asked for local unmedicated chickstarter. Never paid any attention to the bag until today! We have had our chicks almost 4 weeks. It says it is from Mankato MN. Should the bag say if it is medicated? Just curious about Homestead, and we were going to switch our chicks over to grower this week. Appreciate any info!
