Chicken feed

[Hipkiss1987]

So we are getting a couple of chicks (female) to grow on and use for back yard chickens for eggs.

The wife pops into pets at home to pick up some chick crumb today. And the person at the till tells her that once they reach 6-8 weeks they need to go onto growers mash/pellets then when they start laying eggs don’t eat them because they are ‘poisonous’ ? then move them onto layers pellets wait a few eggs then they will be ok to eat!

This sounds like total bulls**t to me!

Thoughts?

 

[Guleesh]

only raised a handful of chicks and some ducklings but we just went straight from chick crumb to layers pellets. hens and ducks seem fine to me, they're healthy looking and lay plenty of eggs. is growers mash for meat birds maybe?
I dunno.

 

[Hipkiss1987]

only raised a handful of chicks and some ducklings but we just went straight from chick crumb to layers pellets. hens and ducks seem fine to me, they're healthy looking and lay plenty of eggs. is growers mash for meat birds maybe?
I dunno.

Agreed. It was more the fact that they said the eggs would be poisonous

 

[Guleesh]

Seems a bit far fetched i agree.
I think i'd be inclined to buy feed from an agricultural store rather than pets at home.

 

[beefandsleep]

Balls. The growers pellets may be medicated in which case there could be a withdrawal period. You could probably find some unmedicated feed if it bothered you.

 

[Old Boar]

As others have said, it is rubbish. Move on to "chicken corn" if you are worried - this is whole grains and what I feed my chooks. (and a host of local birds who clear up anything missed).

 

[Guleesh]

Balls. The growers pellets may be medicated in which case there could be a withdrawal period. You could probably find some unmediated feed if it bothered you.

I think you're right, but don't think i'd knowingly eat medicated product within withdrawal period, unless the panic buying continues then i'll just eat anything i suppose....

 

[Fogg]

If it's Dodson and Horrell chick crumb it's only meant to be used to 8 weeks, so you'll not get any eggs by then anyway, but it's unmedicated, there's nothing in it that'll make the eggs unsafe.

It'll just be nutritionally balanced for the wrong part of the chicken's life cycle.

 

[curlietailz]

Mine get whole wheat off the heap and a bit of somat out of a bag of mixed corn from the ag store and whatever they pick up scratting about the yard