UK "All Flock" Feeds?

[Aerliss]

I'm looking for something suitable to feed to three layers and one girl who isn't laying. She's been on layers feed (Allen & Page, bought direct so nice and fresh) but hasn't laid since late January. Hoped she'd start up again come spring, but she's developed ascites, so that's unlikely. She will absolutely stuff her face with anything except her feed (oats, boss, lettuce, grass, bugs). I'm hoping the layer feed is just unpalatable and am looking for something suitable for her and the others (yes, they have oyster shells). I can't really find much though. Allen & Page Ornamental feed seems to be about it for the (very) small holder.

I'm going to the farm store out of town on Saturday to see what they have, but I don't have a car so it's a long journey by bus and walking, and then I have to carry it home. Delivery would be a lot easier.

(The vet can't find any obvious culprit for the fluid retention through observation alone, so we're assuming heart/liver failure, but stumped as to why that would cause her to not eat her normal feed but still have a good appetite for everything else. If anyone has any other ideas? I hope it's not been caused by the layer feed?? But vet didn't seem to think so. Currently taking her aside two or three times a day and offering her wet oats, crushed boss, scrambled egg, and anything else she'll take that's got calories, just to keep her going. She prefers to eat in view of the others, so you can imagine the indignation )

 

[sylviethecochin]

Do you have meat bird feed available? Most brands are slightly higher in fat content, but only by about 1%. And most chick starter is just a lower protein allflock.

 

[Aerliss]

Do you have meat bird feed available? Most brands are slightly higher in fat content, but only by about 1%. And most chick starter is just a lower protein allflock.

Ooh, chick crumb I can get easily. Thank you!!

 

[sumi]

I'm in Ireland and I'm using this:

It's a starter-grower feed for chicks up to laying age. Made by a company in Belgium, so you may be able to find it too. I bought this at a large pet shop.

 

[Aerliss]

@sumi I've just been looking at that on a site called Little Peckers. I'm going to see what the feed store has on Saturday, and hopefully buy a couple of different brands to try. If they don't have much I'll order from LP, and fork out for next day. That one's one the list!

 

[Aerliss]

Just wanted to let folks know that I got chick feed on Saturday (farm shop only had one brand, Dodson & Horrell) and Carol's taken to it! I got home and let them out of the run today and she has a noticeably distended crop for the first time in weeks.

I'll keep supplementing her with an egg breakfast for a week, to help her get her weight back up, and see how we go.

Also, the oyster shell bowl has clearly been tucked into, so the layers are getting their calcium. That was something I was a little worried about.

Thanks everyone.