Purina or Dumor?

[Dutch552]

Dumor did equal smelly poop for my flock. It stopped within 3 days of switching back to Purina feeds. This has been within the last year.

 

[F106A]

Honestly, it depends on when I go to TSC, and what they have in stock. Sometimes they are out of Purina, and sometimes they are out of Dumor. The price difference is as you wrote, and I can live with that. The past two trips to my local TSC I got the Dumor, but I've probably got just as many bags of Purina.

Then again, there are other feed stores in town, and if I'm passing by I've bought from them too. Prices are pretty competitive (I look for the sales too), they all look about the same as far as crumbles go, and my flock has never turned their noses away from any brand I've bought.

The poop always smells like poop to me. I've never noticed a difference, and to be honest, I've never conducted any studies on it's smell! I do know the eggs always have tasted like eggs regardless of the feed I've given them!

Mark

 

[Broilerexp]

My Agroscience fair project was testing this question. Our results have shown through 3 weeks (broilers) that the Dumor feed significantly outgrows the Purina. In these 3 weeks of this experiment the 8 chicks i tested were at least 8 oz more than the 8 chicks feed with the Purina. It is also halfway true that the chick "poop" did not smell.

 

[mstricer]

My Agroscience fair project was testing this question. Our results have shown through 3 weeks (broilers) that the Dumor feed significantly outgrows the Purina. In these 3 weeks of this experiment the 8 chicks i tested were at least 8 oz more than the 8 chicks feed with the Purina. It is also halfway true that the chick "poop" did not smell.

Dumor has a higher protein then chick starter. Did you use the same protein %. I also noticed that dumor made my meaties poop stink. I found I had to clean their pen daily or it would make my yard stink to high heaven. I switched to from Purina to Dumor half way through and they grew faster. It was 24 % vs 18 %.

 

[Broilerexp]

I did see the protien percentages. The origanal experiment was to test whether a medicated feed would have any difference than a regular feed. As the chickens grew more and more apart in weight, it turned into a weight experiment.

 

[LizaBlue]

Recently hatched a new chick and bought some new chicks to keep it company. I had bought some game chick feed for the mamma while she was broody because she wouldn't get out to eat, and mixed the last of it with Purina (about 1:8) for the babies when they hatched. All of these chicks were home-hatched instead of hatchery chicks, winter chicks instead of spring, which may make some difference too, but they were a lot livelier and never fell asleep near the water. Also, now a month old, they have yet to go through a truly awkward molt stage as my Du-mor only chicks did, easing gently from fuzz to feathers with only a few bald spots. The spring-hatchery chicks molted freakish, having big fuzzy afros, with feather caps, but I don't remember bald spots. I have switched back to Dumor this week, we'll see how it goes. I'm not convinced the Purina made the difference in vigor during the early days, and the feather/fuzz difference probably has more to do with weather and the difference between brooding indoors and in the coop.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I use both actually. I have one hanging feeder with Purina Crumbles and the other hanger with Dumor pellets. They going from one to the other all day.

 

[Spoof]

I've got a mix of Layena and Dumor pellets in my feeder due to a mixed age flock. They eat what they need, I have a trigger feeder so there is little waste. I've noticed on the mix the poop does not have an odor but when I was just using the Dumor feeds it stunk to high heaven. It shouldn't have seeing I only had a few chickens in a very open tractor that I moved every few days.

Maybe they changed the formula recently to get rid of the smell?