What brand of layer food is the best?

[True Grit]

Does anyone feed Sprout Layer Crumbles from Fleet Farm? The chicks seem to have done well on their Chick Starter/Grower so I wanted to start feeding the layer to them in a few weeks when I run out of Chick feed. They will be about 21 weeks old when I run out.

 

[CoupeDeVille]

My hens have been on Purina since day one, but last week I was down to Blue Seal and mixed a bit of their feed into the Layena crumbles just..because..

They seem to like it but holy cow, the coop really smells like an outhouse now !!

Gotta be more fiber or Metamucil in that BlueSeal stuff....sheesh !!

 

[tball chicky]

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I was feeding something that my DH brought home from feed store & they were doing fine and I was getting a few eggs (they had just started laying). Then he brought home Egg Maker layer feed and I started getting fewer & fewer eggs - in the last 2 weeks, I've probably gotten MAYBE 4 eggs out of 6 layers. I just switched to Kruse layer pellets and I guess we'll see how they do. I just got an egg last night after nothing for about 5 days.

Any ideas? Maybe egg eaters? There are no shell fragments remaining if that's what is happening.

 

[CupOJoe42]

I plan on sticking with Blue Seal (same as Kent) - have had no issues so far.

 

[Laurelannu]

What are calf pellets?

 

[GC-Raptor]

What are calf pellets?

Young cow feed. I have never fed to chickens, so I can't comment on feeding to chickens. GC