What do you feed your meatbirds?

[Dodgegal79]

I was wondering what everyone is feeding. I ma thinking of getting 50 cornish rock giants before the hatcheries close here in Canada for winter and was wonder. I would like to feed them whole grain or something along that line after they are off their starter. Any suggestions??

 

[pdpatch]

Start then off with chick starter, if they are the fast growing out can keep them on the chick starter for the entire time.

Some will put them on a finisher type feed for the last two weeks. It's hard to find a feed that is a finisher in bagged feed. Some feed mills can custom mix a finisher.

Tom

 

[NC chicken man]

I use fertrell feed suppliment and their feed formular if you go to thei web site it will give you everything you need to make a batch of feed ,my chickens do very good on it.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

We feed our broilers 1 lb of Homestead Turkey Starter then provide them Ad Libitum access to Homestead Fast Grow from Hubbard Feeds.

Jim

 

[carress]

Where do you get the other ingredients?
Do they come ground?
Do you just mix them as-is and pour it in the feeder??

 

[Peruvian]

I've used both Green Mountain Feeds organic broiler feed (20% protein) and Poulin Grain Quik Gro broiler feed (20% protein). The organic stuff smells much better (going in and coming out

) but it's almost 70% more expensive.

 

[Daycare Mom]

I feed mine chick starter for the first 3 weeks and then switch them to a broiler/grower to finish them off. Can't wait until they are ready to butcher at 5 weeks they are stinky!! PU

 

[Dodgegal79]

Yeah I'm wondering how bad these guys will smell. LOL. I guess the stuff will be good for the garden. I am trying strawbale gardening next year so i figure this stuff will be good to get the bales heated up.

 

[jorgey]

I started mine off on chick starter and then switched them over to Nutrena Meetbird Feed. They did incredible on it and were all ready for butcher at 8 weeks!

 

[AussieSharon]

I keep mine on chick starter for the first 4 weeks then switch to a mix of flock raiser and cracked corn.

At 10 weeks they average 8 lbs dressed weight