Layena® SunFresh® Recipe

[cybercat]

Info for those that need it.

Plant protiens in chicken feed is SOY.
Scratch should only be given as a treat not as a feed and only sparnily. It lowers protien bad.
Corn will also lower protien levels and make chicken fat. So do not add it to layer.

If you have large chickens these are the ones that adult weight is 7lbs or over, you should feed a 18% or better protien feed. Eggs and feathers take protien to make. If your chickens are not laying that great or feather are not shiny up the protien. When you are feeding anything not of the same protien level, it will drop the protien level. Let's say your layer is 16% and you feed corn which is 9% your over all protien goes down to 12%. Anything thing you add to feed will bring down protien levels that includes all treat and scraps unless meat or egg or dry pet food like cat or dog. hope this helps some.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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Not necessarily, as we sometimes get a wheat and field peas ration from our local mill, but yes, protein from soybeans is the most common.

 

[backyardpeeps]

Purina Layena pellets is all my chickens eat - they LOVE it and wouldn't feed them anything else. I will not use the feed mills' own mixture. Have to have Layena! (and of course treats!)

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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Not entirely true, however most of the protein is Soy.

Here are the products that can be used under the Collective Term of "Plant Protein Products":


Algae Meal
Beans, Dried
Canola Meal
Coconut Meal
Cottonseed (five different products)
Guar Meal
Linseed Meal
Peanut Meal
Peas
Potato Protein
Safflower Meal
Soybean (eight different products)
Sunflower Meal
Yeast (five different products)

Jim

 

[Polish]

Recently returned to Purina from locally-produced feed and all of my birds have improved. I am feeding Layena and/or Flockraiser with scratch in the evening.