It's going to be super cold.

[casportpony]

It's ~$19 for 50 pounds:
http://www.bigronline.com/animalsup...-lbs-available-for-in-store-pick-up-only.html

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

One just needs to find a store that carries it and see if they can get it. If they're like Purina, it may be a regional feed that's not available in all states.

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

It's ~$19 for 50 pounds:
http://www.bigronline.com/animalsup...-lbs-available-for-in-store-pick-up-only.html

-Kathy

Whew, that's a little more in line with the old budget!

 

[chicknmania]

While speaking with your poultry expert, were you discussing nutritional requirements for poultry? As in for chickens?

Did you also happen to talk to him about peafowl? Is he familiar with their nutritional requirements? Peas have nutritional requirements that are somewhat different than the requirements for chickens. Peas require more protein, among other things.

The higher dietary need for protein is the primary reason pea owners give their peas catfood. Because chicken feeds and even turkey feeds do not necessarily contain sufficient protein to meet the dietary needs of peafowl. Adding catfood in appropriate proportions to other commercial feed products allows the peas to get the protein they need.

I am not aware of any food currently marketed specifically for peafowl. I do know that poultry food (chicken feed) alone is not enough to maintain optimum pea health. Even gamebird feeds often do not have as much protein as is recommended for peafowl. The nutritional needs imposed by growing long train feathers are very high, and actually suppress the immune systems of males while they are growing their trains. Pea owners typically have to cobble together an appropriate pea diet from multiple sources/kinds of commercial feeds. I am not aware of any knowledgeable pea owner feeding their peas a total catfood diet, even though some of our birds would like that.

Meanwhile, I am happy to feed my CHICKENS their layer pellets, with some cracked corn on the side (since it is winter) and the occasional catfood treat.

Maybe we are talking apples and oranges here....

idk, like I've said before, I think care of poultry has been a very inexact science up til now. And now people are trying to figure out what's going on. I had the same problem too, I never knew what to feed the peas, and the mill recommended Flock Raiser, they though that was as close as they could come to the pea's nutritional needs. That was a couple years ago.

 

[zazouse]

So like 50 pounds would cost $80.00

Don't know whether to

or

. That won't work with 41 Pea mouths to feed!

No kidding, but this is what happens when some folks only want to buy a little at a time.
i purchased a bag of it for my first peas, they liked the flock raiser better, adding regular old calf manta pellets is much cheaper and my peas liked that
Guaranteed Analysis

Crude Protein Min 25.00%
Lysine Min 1.4%
Methionine Min 0.3%
Crude Fat Min 3.0%
Crude Fiber Min 3.0%
Crude Fiber Max 6.00%
Acid Detergent Fiber Max 10.0%
Calcium Min 0.7 %
Calcium Max 1.2 %
Phosphorus Min 0.6 %
Salt Min 0.5 %
Salt Max 1.0 %
Sodium Min 0.2 %
Sodium Max 0.4 %
Copper Min 15 ppm
Copper Max 35 ppm
Selenium Min 0.1 ppm
Zinc Min 125 ppm
Vitamin A Min 20,000 IU/lb
Ingredients

Soybean meal, corn, hominy feed, feeding oatmeal, dried whey, dehydrated alfalfa meal , linseed meal, brewer’s dried yeast, vegetable oil, fenugreek seed, anise oil, calcium carbonate, monocalcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, salt, sulfur, iron oxide, ferrous carbonate, ferrous sulfate, copper oxide, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, sodium selenite, cobalt carbonate, calcium iodate, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, choline chloride, thiamine mononitrate, niacin supplement, riboflavin supplement, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin B12 supplement, folic acid, biotin, propionic acid.

http://www.mannapro.com/products/rabbit/calf-manna/nutritional-information/

 

[DylansMom]

No kidding, but this is what happens when some folks only want to buy a little at a time.
i purchased a bag of it for my first peas, they liked the flock raiser better, adding regular old calf manta pellets is much cheaper and my peas liked that
Guaranteed Analysis

Crude Protein Min 25.00%
Lysine Min 1.4%
Methionine Min 0.3%
Crude Fat Min 3.0%
Crude Fiber Min 3.0%
Crude Fiber Max 6.00%
Acid Detergent Fiber Max 10.0%
Calcium Min 0.7 %
Calcium Max 1.2 %
Phosphorus Min 0.6 %
Salt Min 0.5 %
Salt Max 1.0 %
Sodium Min 0.2 %
Sodium Max 0.4 %
Copper Min 15 ppm
Copper Max 35 ppm
Selenium Min 0.1 ppm
Zinc Min 125 ppm
Vitamin A Min 20,000 IU/lb
Ingredients

Soybean meal, corn, hominy feed, feeding oatmeal, dried whey, dehydrated alfalfa meal , linseed meal, brewer’s dried yeast, vegetable oil, fenugreek seed, anise oil, calcium carbonate, monocalcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, salt, sulfur, iron oxide, ferrous carbonate, ferrous sulfate, copper oxide, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, sodium selenite, cobalt carbonate, calcium iodate, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, choline chloride, thiamine mononitrate, niacin supplement, riboflavin supplement, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin B12 supplement, folic acid, biotin, propionic acid.

http://www.mannapro.com/products/rabbit/calf-manna/nutritional-information/

Sounds like my mom. 8 cats and she buys their food in 8 lb. bags, so she doesn't have to carry bigger bags, not because she can't carry them, "it's just a lot easier in small bags".

 

[mandyok]

I think frenchblackcopper had started a nutrition for peafowl some where on here...ah here is the tittle

Nutrition especially for your Peas

Does he still post on here, haven't seen any posts in a while?

 

[zazouse]

I think frenchblackcopper had started a nutrition for peafowl some where on here...ah here is the tittle

Nutrition especially for your Peas

Does he still post on here, haven't seen any posts in a while?

Never heard how it effected his flocks after feeding them the recipe or even how long he ended up feeding them it

 

[mandyok]

I thought maybe I had missed it as I just got to check on you guys by reading when I could. I thought it had a lot of nutritional guidelines. Wish I knew how it went as well.

 

[KsKingBee]

I think frenchblackcopper had started a nutrition for peafowl some where on here...ah here is the tittle

Nutrition especially for your Peas

Does he still post on here, haven't seen any posts in a while?

He told me last fall that he had gotten into race cars and it has been taking up all his time.