Pellets v.s Crumbles

[Lazy Farmer]

I prefer crumbles.
My chickens don't have a choice.

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[Lazy Farmer]

When I switch off of starter, I use crumble. Upon maturity when birds are placed in various designated housing for selected purposes, I switch to pellets.
When 90 to 100 birds are competing for food, crumble seems to feed the earth as well as the rodent population.
Here is a fact-toid from just yesterday. We purchase our egg maker conventional grain in bulk. We are having a problem lately with our local feed store as far as literacy is concerned. We use Manna pro egg maker. The bags are identical, pellets/crumbles. You have to read the Nutrition Tags to find out the contents of the bag. They loaded a pallet of crumble on our trailer and a trusted them to do their job properly. THEY FAILED AGAIN. I asked for pellets and got a ton of crumbles. Didn't discover this until we got back. I was seriously p.o.-ed. This is the 3rd time this has happened.
ANYWAY, long story short, I had to feed with one bag because I ran dry of pellets.
With a 90+ pop in my big house, all the breeding houses, prospects and roos n such, I used almost 40 pounds of CRUMBLE to feed last night. All most an entire bag v.s. a half or less with pellets.
Along side of the waste in the sandy floors factor, pellets seem to expand in their bellies and seem to fill them up more and faster. BUT THEY DRINK A LOT MORE WATER.
When I feed pellets, there are some traces left over in the morning when I open their doors. Last night, not a trace of food within minutes of the feeding session. Double the food cost when using crumble in our program, on our scale anyway.
I drove the pallet back today and hand checked every single label on that new pallet.
The warehouse guy didn't even apologize. Reading is fundamental.

 

[aart]

Crumbles.....no waste with this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/aarts-almost-waste-free-funnel-bucket-feeder.67218/