Kalmbach Henhouse Reserve?

[ekd]

Hi all-
My local feed store stopped carrying the feed I'd been feeding my girls (the Du-Mor 16% crumbles) and I bought some local-ish mill's pellets. The woman at the feed store said their chickens love it. My four laying girls almost immediately stopped laying. I went from 3-4 eggs per day down to 1-2. I'm considering going with the Kalmbach Henhouse Reserve because I'd heard lots of good things about it, but I thought I'd check in here first. Do you all like it? Will it get my (fairly newly minted) layers back to laying?

 

[nuthatched]

Feed doesn't affect laying, they may be going into their winter break.

 

[ekd]

Feed doesn't affect laying, they may be going into their winter break.

It's still in the 70s and 80s here. It's been minimally cooler, but barely autumnal.

 

[nuthatched]

It's still in the 70s and 80s here. It's been minimally cooler, but barely autumnal.

It's not a matter of temperature, but daylight. They need 14(?) Hours of daylight the active the hormones in charge of laying.

 

[FrostRanger]

Switch if you want but your girls probably won't lay much until spring no matter what you feed them. Days are shorter and many birds will be molting right about now. If you do feed henhouse reserve do know you have to serve it wet else they can just pick out the bits they like and leave the rest and possibly have nutritional issues

 

[Evadig]

I feed henhouse reserve and we (the hens and I) like it.

As @FrostRanger said, they’ll pick and choose what they want to eat out of it.

I toss mine on the ground, so it’s more like scratch. They do a pretty good job of eating everything. But I don’t really feed treats, either, so it’s either eat everything or go hungry.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I feed Chickhouse Reserve rather than Henhouse, as my girls just never did grow to like the Henhouse. I combine it with Kalmbach 20% Flock Maker to boost the overall protein, moistening and/or fermenting it. Since they're not on designated layer feed, I provide flaked oyster shell on the side and feed them back their eggshells.