Poultry Feed, Starter/Grower, Grower/Finisher. Which feed is right?

[Tweety]

Thanks, I think I understand now. The starter/grower will be fine up to the time they start laying but it's medicated so I just need to be sure to stop feeding it when they begin to lay or we will be eating the medication in the eggs. I assume the layer feed also contains extra calcium and whatever else the hens need to produce healthy eggs. Or will I need to also buy the oyster shell at that time?

 

[silkiechicken]

It contains extra calcium so you don't need oyster shell if that is the only thing they eat. Chances are though it's not so a dish of free choice oyster shell is a good idea. As for the medication, it's fine. It's mostl ikley amprolium and that has no withdrawl time. You could eat the eggs even if they were on the feed.

 

[bossynbella]

We have five 11wk old BR hens and two 11wk old Red Sex linked Roosters. We intigrated them in with our flock a couple weeks ago. They have all there feathering. Our large flock is fed a mix of Layer feed and Scratch grains as there is no way to keep them all seperate. They seem fine so far but should I start mixing in more chick starter? we have hatched out 13 chicks of our own recently and have just been feeding them the chick starter as its 4 dollars more then the Layer feed and 6 more then the scratch grains.
This post made me wonder if we need to do things different. Just wondering what I should do?

Melissa

 

[saamladusi]

I just bought fancy scratch feed because the starter grower said to feed unil 6 weeks. Will this be okay as the only feed? They are in the coop and eat bugs/worms.