An easy way to increase the protein is to add dry cat food to the pellet or layer food you feed already. Mix is 50/50. Regular chicken layer feed has a minimum of 16% protein where dry cat food had 35 to 49% protein depending on the brand. Check out the dry cat foods offered at your feed store. Generally, the feral or wild cat food has a much higher protein content. I had a huge problem with cannibalization with my 6 month old chickens. They started to lay eggs at 4 months! And then decided to kill one chicken every third night or so. The increased protein has helped. Since it was a night time event, I set up a game camera to capture the culprit or culprits as it turned out. I moved those 2 to my recovery coop area to see if the behavior would change. So far, so good. Once they start to cannibalize it is really hard to get them to stop. Try the increased protein feed. I hope it works.
I read somewhere on this forum that cat food had an ingredient that is toxic to chickens (i was wondering if dog food is safe- I have alot of that on hand)....Just passing on what i read.....
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