Will this hurt my chicks and ducklings?

[yoie]

I have been feeding my flock of 13 chickens, 1 guinea, and 2 ducks Purina Flock Raiser since the day I got them. I have been driving about an hour to get this feed from my closest TSC, so that makes it a round trip of almost 2 hours to get feed. I just didn't have the time or gas to go all that way today to get feed so I stopped into the local feed store that is only about 15 mins from home instead. They don't carry Purina Flock Raiser and the one chick feed I did see looked as it was medicated. I asked the owner what she would recommend for my flock and sent me home with a bag of Purina Layena Crumbles. My chickens are about 12 weeks and 10 weeks old and my guinea is about a 2 months old. Now my ducks are about 3 weeks old and I know they need niacin (sp?) in thier diet and no medicated feed. Will this feed be ok for my flock for now? I just want what is best for everyone, I can get more Flock Raiser this weekend but I also have baby ducks coming in on Friday. Will a few day of Layer feed be bad?

 

[faykokoWV]

I don't think a few days of layer feed will hurt them. Its the extra calcium in the feed that's a problem and just a few days of it shouldn't hurt. I'm a huge fan of flock raiser, I wish they carried it in pelleted form!

For birds those ages you could also use a starter/grower

 

[yoie]

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Thanks for the reply. They are a very small store and only carried layer feed in cumble or pellets and then they had chick starter that was medicated and I saw a bag of turkey feed and that was about it for poultry type food. I can't wait to get them all back on Flock Raiser, they have been doing so great on it!

 

[b.hromada]

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Yes, starter/grower is a good alternative.