When to feed Layer crumbles

[JessChickengirl06]

Good evening,
I have 18 and 19 week old Pullets (5 of them) and 1 Jersey giant 19 week old cockerel .

1 Of my girls laid her first egg today!! Last photo of golden/white one. 2 others are beginning to get bright red waddles and low when u put your hand over them like she did before she laid! The black and white (silver laced Wyandotte) and my Rhode Island Red.
Question I feed them medicated grow and start crumbles but when do I start the layer feed?
I give them scrambled eggs, kale, cucumbers, tomatoes, scratch grains, oyster grit, corn, mealworms and oats and sunflower seeds.
But I want them to have beautiful shell eggs

Thanks so much!!

 

[RoosterML]

I would do a search on the site. This topic has been beaten with a bat probably 1000 times.

 

[JessChickengirl06]

I apologize I will go look

 

[RoosterML]

I apologize I will go look

No need to apologize, a lot of information already out there about it.

 

[RoosterML]

This sums it up well
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...art-to-feed-layers-feed.1408713/post-23124044

 

[GC-Raptor]

Good evening,
I have 18 and 19 week old Pullets (5 of them) and 1 Jersey giant 19 week old cockerel .

1 Of my girls laid her first egg today!! Last photo of golden/white one. 2 others are beginning to get bright red waddles and low when u put your hand over them like she did before she laid! The black and white (silver laced Wyandotte) and my Rhode Island Red.
Question I feed them medicated grow and start crumbles but when do I start the layer feed?
I give them scrambled eggs, kale, cucumbers, tomatoes, scratch grains, oyster grit, corn, mealworms and oats and sunflower seeds.
But I want them to have beautiful shell eggs

Thanks so much!!

I would switch to a Non-medicated Starter Grower or All-flock feed till at least one of each breed is laying.
Continue to offer Oyster Shells. GC

 

[JessChickengirl06]

Thank you And my Rooster is ok for layer feed ??

I would switch to a Non-medicated Starter Grower or All-flock feed till at least one of each breed is laying.
Continue to offer Oyster Shells. GC

 

[GC-Raptor]

If I had a Cockerel/Rooster and I fed a Layers feed to my Pullets/Hens, he would get the same.

That said, I haven't fed a Layers feed in 3 years and I've never had a boy.

I like a higher Protein feed 18 to 20%.
So I feed my Hens and Pullets a Non-medicated Starter Grower or a All-Flock feed with Oyster Shells separately. GC

 

[Chold05]

You can start them at 18 weeks or when the fist egg comes- whichever comes first! Congrats on your first egg! So exciting!