the taste of Layena

[Bantimna]

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[neuchicontheblock]

My roo has a ne talent of spilling out the sunflower seeds on the ground for the hens from the wild bird feeder and he eats themout of the feeder himself. Been cutting down on Layena use.

I love the smell of Sweet Feed #16 that I use with the llamas. Molasses. Yum. Calf Manna is also very good.

I like some dog bisquits but that soft stuff just smells so vile.

I learned this week that the liver flavoring used in so many dog products isproduced by Ensign Bickford here in CT. They were primarily a munitions factory, developed the fuse for nuclear (!) weapons. Where liver flavor came from I no longer wish to know.

 

[MuranoFarms]

Lol...I've never tried chicken feed......BUT, we were at petco one day and my oldest (he's 15) wanted to get dog treats. Ya know, the expensive 'by the pound' ones by the door. So we picked out ones that looked like chocolate chip cookies and vanilla cream sandwich cookies. We get home and he's feeding them to the dogs and he says "they smell like real cookies" then he bit one!

He ate the whole cookie and then tackled his sister and force fed her one! I think they ate half the bag. Silly kids.

 

[Davaroo]

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See... as long as they don't have our brainwashed ideas about what is "gross," they're fine. This can be bad when they eat the wrong things, like toxic ones, but obviously dog biscuits wont hurt em.

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I recall when my daughter was about 3, she was happily munching on a plain corn tortilla - when my wife spotted her.
"Oh yecch," she said. "That's gross. Dont eat that!"
Whereupon DD tossed the tortilla down and wouldn't eat them thereafter.

You have more influence that you may think... well, until they turn 13.

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Ive eaten dog treats, myself. Not great, but edible. To borrow a phrase from Crocodile Dundee,
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You can live on 'em, but they taste like s**t!"

 

[ChicknCharm]

My daughter taste tested the Layena crumbles, she said "OK"...but certainly does not ask for them at snack time. Are they vegetarian? I read somewhere they found road kill and icky gross stuff in packaged feed. We feed our flock all our left-overs, too. They do not come running for the Layena like they do cottage cheese and granola bars.

 

[Davaroo]

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You gotta be careful what you read. Unless the label specifically states 'vegetarian' or non-animal protein sources, you are assured there is animal based protein in the feed. This comes from many sources, from the ridiculous to the sublime. But, a chickens diet should include animal proteins, as it duplicates what they eat in Nature.
Every feed regimen I've ever studied includes some, from one source or another. There are those who would impose veganism on the chicken, but I assure you, it is without the chickens consent.

As for the preferences, well, think about it: sere and dusty, crumbly feed vs. smooth creamy cottage cheese and granola bars. You'd come running, too!

As for road kill and "icky, gross stuff" being in feed, well.... if that is how you would describe such things, its probably best you don't ask further. Oh, and I'd advise you don't go peeking at what your chickens eat when they think you're not around.

Just a word to the wise...