What do i feed SHOW BIRDS!!

[wegotchickens]

Must have to feed them a LOT to make their poop orange.

I use it as a hand-fed treat 2x a week and have no orange poo.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Manna Pro is its own company jsut as Purina is its own company. I like Manna Pro feeds; I do not like Purina feeds. I have no idea where the orange poop comment comes from. I asked when it was mentioned in an earlier post on this topic and that was not answered. My birds don't poop orange, and their feed is exclusively Manna Pro plus occasional kitchen treats and whatever bugs, grass and weeds they find in their pens or when they are out in the yard ranging. I do occasionally give them pigeon feed, also, but it's pretty expensive so they don't get much.

 

[Crunchie]

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I heard that manno pro makes your chickens poop orange? It must do something to their digestive tracts if theyre pooping orange.

My chickens have been on it for at least a month, probably closer to two, and no sign of orange poop here. I'm feeding it regularly to about 100 birds. Have you heard this about the Manna Pro Poultry Conditioner or about the original Calf Manna supplement? This conditioner has Calf Manna ingredients, but it isn't Calf Manna.

If they're pooping orange, it's something in the feed that is either coloring the poop and/or is being excreted & not absorbed. I'm not claiming to know *why* a supplement might turn poo orange, or trying to convince anyone to feed this stuff to their birds, but plenty of things turn bodily excretions interesting colors that aren't *bad* for you or "doing something" to your digestive tract. Ever drank beet juice?

Now that can create an, um, interesting sight & topic of toilet discussion! But beets are good for us. Ever take a multivitamin? The pharmaceutical B vitamins used in multis turn things a nice shade of fluorescent yellow. I'm just thinking that if a Manna Pro supplement is turning chicken poo orange, it could very well be one of the vitamins or other "good" ingredients in it. There are a lot of B vitamins in the Poultry Conditioner. I'm kind of a purist in a lot of ways (personally, I won't take most of the pricey natural multivitamins because they use pharmaceutical grade ingredients--synthetics. Instead I prefer the type that are cultured from whole food. I don't like my pee fluorescent yellow, thanks!

), and there are ingredients in the Poultry Conditioner that I could do without (a lot of corn, soybean by-products, stuff like that), but for me it's a fairly decent source of a lot of good stuff (fish meal, flax, yeast cultures, probiotics, etc.).

 

[Chris09]

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I heard that manno pro makes your chickens poop orange? It must do something to their digestive tracts if theyre pooping orange.

Manna Pro chicken feed or Calf Manna? I cant see there regular chicken feed turning there poop orange. Now I can see that Calf Manna doing that if you are feeding too much...
When feeding Calf Manna you just add 5-10 % to there ration feed. That would be from 5 to 10 lbs added to 100 lbs of there regular feed....

 

[Chris09]

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I agree with you Sonoran, I like Manna Pro I used there feed for years till I switched to Kalmbach... I would never use Purina feeds again, bird didn't like it and lost condition and weight...

Chris

 

[bantam_n00b]

Well i went and bought a bag of flockraiser today im a little upset that the mazuri isnt coming in until another 4 weeks. But i went to the grocery store to find fish meal and was thinking what exactly is fish meal? So i just bought some tuna in a can. Is this the same as fish meal? The tuna i got was 12g of protein and soaked in olive oil. Can anyone tell me exactly what fish meal is and where i can buy it?

 

[Chris09]

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Make sure you get food/feed grade fish meal and not the fish meal used as a fertilizer. (most good feed mills will carry it around here it runs right around $60.00 for 50 lbs)
Here is a link to what it is..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_meal

 

[bantam_n00b]

Wow, thats a lot for fish meal, now i just wouldve wished i bought something with fish meal in it. I guess ill just have to wait for the mazuri. So do you think feeding the tuna out of cans is fine? I feed a little bit earlier and they liked it. Not sure if its any good for them.

 

[Chris09]

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It will be fine...

If you have a good mill around you what you could do is get a bag of floating fish pellet (not the stuff for Koi but the feed for Bass and Cat Fish...)
It has fish meal in it plus a lot of other good stuff..


Chris

 

[bantam_n00b]

Is that healthy for chickens? feeding fish food to chickens?