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[roosterhavoc]

let me start off by saying I feed pellets with a mix and sometimes just straight pellets.
I think the complete nutrition of a pellet is most likely overstated. Just as our own food the more processed it is the less nutrients. Not to mention the crop is designed to break down whole grains and plants. Pellets are the equivalent of a nutrition shake. Good but not as good as mixes of grains, corn, seeds etc..
I find waste because the individual birds are holding out for whichever part they like the best.
Pellets = hot dogs
Mix = porterhouse, salad, baked potatoe and a beer of your choice or milk like me. Lol

 

[roosterhavoc]

Most all birds still pick out the cracked corn and whole oats before anything else gets touched.

 

[sdm111]

let me start off by saying I feed pellets with a mix and sometimes just straight pellets.
I think the complete nutrition of a pellet is most likely overstated. Just as our own food the more processed it is the less nutrients. Not to mention the crop is designed to break down whole grains and plants. Pellets are the equivalent of a nutrition shake. Good but not as good as mixes of grains, corn, seeds etc..
I find waste because the individual birds are holding out for whichever part they like the best.
Pellets = hot dogs
Mix = porterhouse, salad, baked potatoe and a beer of your choice or milk like me. Lol

you're dead on with the last 3 lines they don't appreciate the fancy stuff oh well they get hotdogs then lol.

 

[roosterhavoc]

you're dead on with the last 3 lines they don't appreciate the fancy stuff oh well they get hotdogs then lol.

Haha no kidding. I'm gonna make a note of the pens where i find more waste food. They are getting the "five fingers of death" aka Vienna sausages.

 

[sdm111]

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bump. I used to feed the fancy mixed feed I used to mix layer, cracked corn, calf manna, black oil sunflower, with a base of pigeon conditioner but between the price, labor and the birds only eating what they liked and waisting a lot only to leave it to mold I just use starter till they can physically swallow a pellet. They're all on pellets and they do great and if they don't like them they can starve. And no neither have spangling that's all sheen


What kind of pellet are you feeding and what's the protein? I'm feeding all my young ones a mix of crumbles to get around 24% and all the others are getting Black Rooster from Big V feeds. The only thing I see them not eating much is the australian peas and an occasional whole corn.

I'm simple Purina starter and Purina layena pellet. And honestly I don't know the protein and stuff I guess 16%.

 

[flypen]

you're dead on with the last 3 lines they don't appreciate the fancy stuff oh well they get hotdogs then lol.

Well I'll say the pellets your feeding has got yours looking awesome and if we don't condition for shows then I don't see the necessity in all the mix feeds

 

[roosterhavoc]

The starter is 18%.

 

[sdm111]

Well I'll say the pellets your feeding has got yours looking awesome and if we don't condition for shows then I don't see the necessity in all the mix feeds

you wouldn't imagine the slack I got telling people what I fed till they took a tour and couldn't believe it. Keeps are different anyway. And I'd rather have to burn a lil fat off of them and keep them a little heavy then keep them thin and have to add

 

[sdm111]

I will say if u can find protrition co-op feed out of Tennessee locally they live that ****. I used to feed that till the feed store quite carrying it

 

[roosterhavoc]

I feed a much higher protein for my other roosters feathers. I'm lazy so I use one bucket to feed the rest of the grown roosters.
My laying hens get pellets and scratch.
It's all got a lot more to do with genetics.
No matter what you feed me i ain't gonna look like the Rock.