top 3 grains

[chikibabe]

What are the top 3 grains your turkeys like to eat?

Theres hundreds of pre mixed grain diets you can get. I find with a mash theres too much waste and my pair isnt that interested in pelleted ration. They like their corn, wheat and sunflower the best. These are allways the 1st 3 mine eat. Picking and fussing thro the rest. Atm im feeding a wild bird mixed seed, wheat and pellet homestyle mix with a dash of extra sunflower
I have heard tho too much sunflower is bad for birds.
They say too much corn can effect meat quality, not that il eat my turkeys lol
I just kinda like making up my own homestyle mixes, i love to play in the grain lol i think it stems from my previous horsie life of mixing my own feeds up for each individual horse.
Anywho . . .
Just wondering what are your turkeys top favourite grains, nuts, seeds or cereals? As id like to homestyle my own mix.

 

[ColbyNTX]

They love scratch with corn, milo ect but its like feeding candy to a kid. That's why they eat it first. I don't feed my adult turkeys anything less than 20% protien. the grains only has about 8% protien which isn't enough to make much thrive. I feed the pellets and they do knock some on the ground but I wait for them to eat what they spill before I feed again.

 

[chikibabe]

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Mine also get vegie scraps everyday and if no scraps il throw em a handfull of frozen (thawd) mixed vegies, or free range them for a day, either way everyday they get sumthing fresh. Thankyou 4 your reply, and yes im sure i need to remember to forget to feed my turkeys every now and again lol