Pellets vs. Crumbles?

[tenderkat]

Anyone have any opinions on which is better? What are the pros and cons of each? Do your chickens seem to prefer crumbles over pellets, or viceversa?

 

[tonini3059]

No preference as far as the chickens go, but I prefer the pellets , it seems as thought there is less waste.

 

[Akane]

My chickens prefer crumbles and my smallest bantams like the seramas and japanese either can't or completely refuse to eat pellets. Which is fine cause crumbles is all I can get at nearby stores. Pellets though will have less waste and cost you less in the end than crumbles.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Pellets...

 

[Choco Maran]

All of mine like crumbles better. They seem to have more waste with pellets they scratch the pellets every where. I feel thcrumbles are easier for they to eat.

 

[Tad]

I have my layers on crumbles, my hybrids that I incubated are on crumbles from start to finish they are being raised for meat tho...

 

[gritsar]

Much prefer the pellets, less waste. Any that they spill is easier for them to pick up off the floor.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

Mine prefer crumbles. If I had made the switch to pellets when they first switched to layer feed, I think they would have taken to them better. I waited until they had been laying for about 6 months, then didn't realize that they weren't eating much of the pellets. I thought the feed was lasting longer because they weren't wasting as much.

They free ranged daily, so got much of what they needed from the yard. Then I built them a pen, and the pellets still didn't seem to be getting eaten. Egg production dropped to nearly zero. I switched them back to crumbles, and, I'll be darned if egg production didn't go back to normal in about 3 weeks.

That was in the summer. No one had been molting. NOW, they are molting, so egg production is down again. I will stick with crumbles. Switch to pellets early if you're going to do it.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I prefer pellets, lots less waste and they don't seem to mind the change.

 

[al6517]

For some of us with larger flocks waste is a big issue, so the pellets offer us a little savings, but they are better for large fowl, although my quail love them just as well.

AL