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Do egg layers need to eat more layer food than scratch grains on a daily basis?
I wouldn't feed much scratch during hot weather. Corn is a high energy feed and that will make them have more body heat, not good in the summer but better in the winter for warmth. Layers need around 16% protein. You can feed that all in a layer mash or make up your own mix with protein around that level. If you don't feed a layer feed you need to supplement calcium somehow. I do put some scratch in my fermented layer feed just because they like it, but not a whole lot. Fermented feed makes some really nice eggs - big firm yolks and hard shells. I dropped one in the floor the other day and could still pick it up and use it, yolk didn't even break. The shell was a little shattered on one side but still intact so I could pick it up.