Chicken Feed
Wed, 08/20/2008 - 02:51
I'm looking for some help on figuring out what to feed my 6 week old laying hens. Someone told me you can mix the layer pellets (for adults) and the chicken crumble (baby chick food) to create the food until they are 18 weeks. My husband went to the feed store today expaining that our chicks are 6 weeks old and was handed a bag that states on it "for chicks up to 3 weeks". Did they sell him the wrong stuff?
Thanks for any advise!
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City Chick
I used a baby chick formula for the first month, and then switched to a chicken grower formula, which I eventually mixed with layer crumble until they transitioned to straight lay crumble.
Maybe the guy at the feed store was confused, but sometimes they don't know anything about raising animals- they just work there. I would call around to a couple of feed stores- as certain types of feeds are available in some areas and not others (depending on manufacturing/distribution).
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