Pellets?

[Mac in Wisco]

Some say it won't hurt the roosters, others say it does and only give mixed flocks free-choice calcium. I know in the breeder barns they use separate feeding systems for the roosters. How they get the roosters to eat from one feed line while the hens eat from another is beyond me.

 

[woodmort]

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Generally speaking I have found my roosters don't live as long as my hens, probably for that reason. I recall an ad from the 50's for a Ralston Purina (I think) product call Lay Or Bust that featured an exploding rooster--it was a cartoon character btw.

 

[gritsar]

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Next time my neighbor is up here, if I can remember, I'll ask him. He's worked in every single area of commercial chicken farming for Tyson and is a wealth of information.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

I looked around on the web today and found that they use wire grills on the hens' feed troughs to keep the roosters out. Their bigger heads and taller combs tend to exclude them.