Noble foods free range

That's pretty good for GM free? And you know exactly what's in it.

Presume the oats are to increase fibre levels? We've had our ration boosted to 4.75% fibre from about 3.2% for this flock, too early to tell if its helping, not exactly sure what they've used to achieve it.

Got lucky buying the balancer I guess.

Yeah increase fibre and stops them going through Lucerne bales so much.
 

Bones

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Location
n Ireland
I have multi tier and have know idea what you mean?

It takes 9 mins to do a circuit of a 16k shed

How many feeds you doing?
So if it takes 9 minutes to do a circuit in your shed and I take it that the meal is coming back thick, so whole shed is evenly fed ,so imagine if you could do the exact same thing in 6 minutes, only your feeding 100kgs less,birds here are fed 3 times a day ,
 
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So if it takes 9 minutes to do a circuit in your shed and I take it that the meal is coming back thick, so whole shed is evenly fed ,so imagine if you could do the exact same thing in 6 minutes, only your feeding 100kgs less,birds here are fed 3 times a day ,

What multi tier you got?

Why would they eat less?

I think you would be better off feeding 5/6 times and running the troughs at a lower depth.
 

ski

Member
If you speed up your chains in a multi tier, most will find the feed auger unable to cope with the extra demand as they are / were usually sized accordingly. You could add an extra auger of course which does add an insurance for one breaking. I have never heard anyone else say the same about chain speed though, and neither about egg size/shed temperature.\
Do you have some data?
 

Grassman

Member
Location
Derbyshire
If you speed up your chains in a multi tier, most will find the feed auger unable to cope with the extra demand as they are / were usually sized accordingly. You could add an extra auger of course which does add an insurance for one breaking. I have never heard anyone else say the same about chain speed though, and neither about egg size/shed temperature.\
Do you have some data?
Are the birds not on ad lib feed in big "free range" buildings?
 

Frodo2

Member
If you speed up your chains in a multi tier, most will find the feed auger unable to cope with the extra demand as they are / were usually sized accordingly. You could add an extra auger of course which does add an insurance for one breaking. I have never heard anyone else say the same about chain speed though, and neither about egg size/shed temperature.\
Do you have some data?
I can just about understand the correlation between egg size and shed temp. As hens in warm shed will eat less and as such produce smaller egg. Don't think it's the only (or primary) factor
 

Bones

Member
Location
n Ireland
If you speed up your chains in a multi tier, most will find the feed auger unable to cope with the extra demand as they are / were usually sized accordingly. You could add an extra auger of course which does add an insurance for one breaking. I have never heard anyone else say the same about chain speed though, and neither about egg size/shed temperature.\
Do you have some data?
A double auger should be a must ,, especially in new houses, all data is stored between my two ears, sometimes it's hard to get the printer to work right, I used to work for a company who had cage hens ,if a big order came in for small eggs for scotch eggs or pickled eggs, they would crank up the heat in the shed for a few days and size of the egg would get smaller, easier done in a cage house than free range ,but can still be done,
 

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