Layena

[g&h farm]

Is it safe to be feeding my girls Layena? I give a mix of Layena and scratch and lots of fresh veggies and they free range daily but I have heard some negative about layer feeds. My girls look great fat and shiney. Also is it ok for my roos?

 

[LindsayB]

I feed my 4 girls Layena, they are very healthy and give 3-4 eggs a day.

 

[Fred's Hens]

It's likely the Number One commercial laying feed on the planet. I cannot imagine having heard anything negative about it.
Oh, except the price, perhaps.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Scratch is a treat and shouldn't be a large part of their diet.

 

[g&h farm]

I have heard of hens getting egg bound. My girls look great and happy and are laying good even during the winter so Im sticking with what works, I was just wondering if anyone has heard of the eggbound thing or if it had nothing to do with the feed its self. Thanks

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I'd have to think that if it were a feed issue there'd be ALOT more eggbound hens all over the place.

 

[EweSheep]

Most of the time it's the hatchery birds that are getting egg bound more often and past posts are leaning more and more toward to hatchery birds dying off in a year or up to three years old because of the genetic background that they are to lay as much as they can.

I feed my girls Layena and Flock Raiser and my oldest is four years old and youngest is seven months old. Less smell, less poop, high feed conversion. Other feeds, they poop more, more smell and eat alot more for less priced bags of feed. And the difference in egg yolk colors too.

Would you rather feed your chickens less pricey feed for them to eat MORE in a week than pay a little more for them to eat less? Not all birds are created equally but most of the time, it works for me.

We have been feeding our animals and livestock Purina foods for YEARS, or four generations. Now with my cat, she has other issues so she is on Blue Buffalo cat food because she has issues with Purina with too much "cereal" in the food, throws up constantly. THAT was the first for me to have an animal having issues with any Purina cat food that I've tried with her.

 

[onthespot]

I feed Layena. When they are "off laying" for moult, or shorter days or what have you, I increase their protein by cutting in some Purina Flock Raiser, usually 1:1 ratio, but during the rest of the year, they get lots of Layena and I have NEVER had a single hen get eggbound. I have tried a couple of times to to with local mill products, and every time they wasted more than half of it, wouldn't finish, and I just wasn't satisfied, even at half the price of Layena. I switched back both times, in short order, and am a customer for life.

 

[g&h farm]

We fed nutrena for a long time and I decided to try layena a couple months ago. I have been happy with it but just got a little nervous when my friend told me about this. Thanks for all the feed back.

 

[speckledhen]

The quality is fine. I will not feed Layena for two reasons, the price and the fact that it's a vegetarian feed. I choose feeds that contain animal protein (from porcine sources) because chickens are omnivores by nature. That said, if you supplement it with animal protein and they have access to bugs, etc, it would be fine.

This is what I feed at the moment, the Tucker Milling Layer mini-pellets and when many are molting, I run a couple bags of the 22% Super Layer through the feeders. The county co-op carries this, plus Faithway Feeds and ADM Alliance Pen Pals feeds.

http://www.tuckermilling.com/poultryfeed.htm