Purina

[schellie69]

I have 2 choices here Purina (no animal protein) or country lane which is $4.00 cheaper. I go with country lane game bird feed 22% protein. I can't even find the protein % on the Purina bag. I do go to a large town once every other month might start checking on different feeds there. I would like to go to organic with out paying an arm and a leg for it.

 

[Fred's Hens]

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It's all good. I see you're on the left coast. Believe it or not, it is also that high here in the upper midwest.

 

[lotzahenz]

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ONLY $15.50?? Cough! Cough!

You gotta take into account tho that there's only like 3 people that keep chickens in my area, and there's only one other brand of feed.
the other one is 14.50.
It all depends on the region you're in.

Crash! You gotta recruit my friend. I think having HEN TUPPERWARE parties are in your future! You can print out "coop plans" and sell baby chicks with starter kits and a homemade brooder box at your parties. Buy one bag of Expensive feed and divide it into cute little baggies, with a even tinier baggie of chick grit. You can have your own home based business, and if you get your underlings to do the same, you can hand out Bright Yellow Cadilacs for the top salespersons! I see you as the CHICK MASTER.

What an opportunity, now: Advertise and get the word out to your neighbors! HenZ

 

[crash0330]

I have advertise chicks on craigslist but for some weird reason people seem to not be interested in regular chicken. All there interested is in Game Fowl!
You would think people will be interested, but no. I am trying to make a little bussiness tho, but leaning more towards shipping stuff out.
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You gotta take into account tho that there's only like 3 people that keep chickens in my area, and there's only one other brand of feed.
the other one is 14.50.
It all depends on the region you're in.

Crash! You gotta recruit my friend. I think having HEN TUPPERWARE parties are in your future! You can print out "coop plans" and sell baby chicks with starter kits and a homemade brooder box at your parties. Buy one bag of Expensive feed and divide it into cute little baggies, with a even tinier baggie of chick grit. You can have your own home based business, and if you get your underlings to do the same, you can hand out Bright Yellow Cadilacs for the top salespersons! I see you as the CHICK MASTER.

What an opportunity, now: Advertise and get the word out to your neighbors! HenZ

 

[dewey]

I feed layena pellets $17/50#. Back in the day the free range chickens were fed mostly scratch, scraps, and maybe a little layer mash and seemed to do fine.

Kruse 18% layer pellets is $12.65/50# at Bales Hay (west of Phoenix) but it's quite a drive...would be worth it if I had a large flock.

 

[white01]

I only use Purina Layena, my dogs also get nothing but purina dog chow,

 

[pampered_poultry]

Purina brand only here... The Dumor brand is short two ingredients that the Purina Layer has. The other thing I have noticed with Purina is the texture of the feed seems to be consistent - unlike other brands I have tried. I don't want to take a chance with rare chicks or poults when it comes to feed.

 

[F106A]

Just read this entire post, and I'm still a bit confused on the advantage/disadvantage (?) of animal protein vs. plant protein. Can someone briefly explain the pro's/con's?

Many thanks,

Mark

 

[Chris09]

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I know of no real pro's to feeding a all plant protein.

There are quit a few pro's to feeding animal protein,
The biggest pro is that you are feeding them a more correct diet.
I look at it this way chickens are Omnivorous , just like Humans, Crows, Pigs, Bears etc. and they need both plants and animals as their primary food source.

Chris

 

[Fred's Hens]

Somehow, some way, the "animal free" or "totally vegetarian" chicken feed co-incided with the chicken craze. Pure speculation on my part. Egglands Best eggs tout "vegetarian/no animal" feed on their cartons at the same time. It's a fad and a foolish one.

We hen keepers must somehow supplement with animal/insect/egg protein to make up the difference if all we have available is vegetarian feed locally. A chicken is not and never was a vegetarian. This is all foolishness or fear based on the mad cow scare of years ago. I dunno.