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Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow

If you'd care to share a picture of them, we'd love to see them!

Is there anything in particular you're wishing to learn? We have a Learning Center that covers just about everything, and a lot of helpful folks here and in the forums to answer any questions. Just make yourself right at home!
 
Welcome to BYC, @TXLULU !!!

Unfortunately, finding healthy feeds for your chickens which are also low PUFAs will require some trade offs you may not want to make.

High(er) PUFA ingredients in chicken feeds include fish, seeds, and many plant oils, both seed (sunflower, flax), legume (soy oil), and corn oil. Many of those ingredients (all but the corn, really) are also decent to very good sources of methionine - a critical amino acid hens can't make for themselves, and for which they are dependent on diet to provide. When you spend time on our feed forums here, you will learn why Methionine matters - but for now I'll say its so important that even feeds containing the "Organic" label are allowed to incorporate synthetic methionine (dl-Methionine on the label), without which most would be grossly nutritionally deficient.

Now, that said, many pelleted feeds rely on a bit of extra oil as a binder. Read your labels and avoid feeds with extra oils. You can look for feeds which contain more wheat, less corn, and feeds which get much of their methionine fron animal sources like porcine blood meal (yes, pig's blood).

Local to you is West Feeds - I don't think they mill anything meeting your goals, in part because you can't know what's in their products. "Grain Products, Plant Protein Products, Salt, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Monocalcium Phosphate" is rather generic, as ingredient lists go. Its a feed for the cost conscious, you will likely want to avoid.
 
while we are on the subject of possibly local mills, A&M Feeds (Stillwater Milling) produces feeds with good nutritional numbers, but doesn't provide an ingredient list on line. Worth looking at a bag.

Avoid Shawnee, like West, they are for the cost conscious and very vague about ingredients. Also avoid Big V if you are looking for low PUFAs - Corn, Soybean Meal, Wheat Middlings, Rice Bran, Alfalfa Meal Dehydrated, Calcium Carbonate, Animal Protein Products, Soybean Oil as the main components of their feed.

Hope that helps, and again, welcome to BYC!
 

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