Quick ?? about protein, please help

[cletus the rooster]

gamebird feed is typically used for turkeys,guineas and pheasant that require higher protein.

 

[Buster52]

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So are you saying you are using your own mix? If so, you could just add something with high protein like soybean meal to the mix to obtain the desired level of protein. I have found it is much cheaper than buying stuff off the shelf, and my birds much prefer my mixes.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Do you have a mixer? I was wondering how that would turn out.... wonder if it would be cheaper than buying it. Right now I pay about $16.70 / bag and those are 100 # bags. Wonder if a concrete mixer might work...

 

[Buster52]

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Is this for me? If so, no, I guess I misspoke. I have it mixed and sacked at the mill, but it is my recipe. You have a great price. I might beat your price by just a little, but very little. Pennies maybe. The sacking is what drives up my price. If I just had it loaded into barrels or into a trailer without bagging it the way some of my friends do, I would save about $2 a hundred.

I compare my prices to the commercial bagged stuff. Here, that runs about $17 for 50# for game bird feed.

 

[EricH]

gamebirds are considered guinea, pheasant, quail, etc. go with the 21! BEEFCAKE!!!

 

[noahsark]

I went with the meatbird crumble at 21%, cost ws $13.69 for 50#. I started them on that, then switched to the grain i get from themill at 4 weeks, when they went outside. The grain looks like mostly wheat, but they said its whatever the sweep off the train that carries all kinds of grain..$5 for a 50# sack...Right now with 26 freedom roos at 7 weeks, Ive spent a toatl of $115..thats $70 for the birds and delivery, $30 for the first two bags of crumble, $10 for the 100# of grain, and now another $14 for the extra crunble..Im going to post pictures today..they look much rounder then my heritage javasmixes looked at this age, and are more then twice the size..there is one hen out of the 26, and she is about the same size..Also a "mystery" bird" that is so SMALL!!!
Pictures today, for sure..i will post them seperate from this topic.
thanks for all the advice..I feel good about going with the 21%.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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Is this for me? If so, no, I guess I misspoke. I have it mixed and sacked at the mill, but it is my recipe. You have a great price. I might beat your price by just a little, but very little. Pennies maybe. The sacking is what drives up my price. If I just had it loaded into barrels or into a trailer without bagging it the way some of my friends do, I would save about $2 a hundred.

I compare my prices to the commercial bagged stuff. Here, that runs about $17 for 50# for game bird feed.

I see..... However the bag is what kills me too. It cost $0.65 / bag (100# bags), however until I can get some type of silo, I will just have to live with it.