UCDavis report- Can someone help me understand this report

[colette peters]

Feeding them chicken is not bad. Who ever told you that was a big no is full of it.

That’s good to know.

 

[rebrascora]

As Kiki says, feeding chicken is not a problem. I would suspect that your grain mix feed is more likely the issue although I am unable to read the report a it is too small and distorts when I magnify it. Liver rupture can be due to dietary imbalance and grain feeds fed ad lib to penned birds can cause fatty liver haemorrhagic syndrome because the birds can selectively eat the higher carb components of the mix, like wheat and corn and bill out and leave the protein rich pulses/legumes for lower ranking birds or rodents to clean up.

 

[Kiki]

When are they going to give you the final results?

 

[Kiki]

As Kiki says, feeding chicken is not a problem. I would suspect that your grain mix feed is more likely the issue although I am unable to read the report a it is too small and distorts when I magnify it. Liver rupture can be due to dietary imbalance and grain feeds fed ad lib to penned birds can cause fatty liver haemorrhagic syndrome because the birds can selectively eat the higher carb components of the mix, like wheat and corn and bill out and leave the protein rich pulses/legumes for lower ranking birds or rodents to clean up.

This was my first thought too.

 

[colette peters]

As Kiki says, feeding chicken is not a problem. I would suspect that your grain mix feed is more likely the issue although I am unable to read the report a it is too small and distorts when I magnify it. Liver rupture can be due to dietary imbalance and grain feeds fed ad lib to penned birds can cause fatty liver haemorrhagic syndrome because the birds can selectively eat the higher carb components of the mix, like wheat and corn and bill out and leave the protein rich pulses/legumes for lower ranking birds or rodents to clean up.

It’s soy and corn free feed.

 

[colette peters]

When are they going to give you the final results?

He said tomorrow

 

[Kiki]

It’s soy and corn free feed.

But it's whole grains...they can still pick and choose which pieces they want to eat and not get a balanced diet.
Crumble or pellets is the way to go.

 

[Kiki]

He said tomorrow

Perfect, thank you.

 

[colette peters]

But it's whole grains...they can still pick and choose which pieces they want to eat and not get a balanced diet.
Crumble or pellets is the way to go.

I find when I feed them crumble or pellets they are not happy and their egg production seems to be very low. I’m used to getting 7/9 from my egg layers then I switched and started getting 2/4 a day. I just experimented with this this last month. And it’s been in the high 60° in California.

 

[colette peters]

Perfect, thank you.

I’ll post it and tag you