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[Doodledootoo]

It's a long story, so I'll cut to the chase.

 

My husband has just emptied a huge sack of Mixed Poultry Grain into the metal bin where we keep the pellets (supplied by Omlet).

 

I've tried to mix it all in as best as I can but I don't know what this means for the girls?

 

Is Mixed Poultry Grain, given as the main food source, OK for chickens or is it too rich/potentially harmful for them to eat it almost exclusively as their main source of food?

 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Doodle

[jomaxsmith]

Can you get any more pellets? you'll prob be alright to feed them with the mix until you can get more but I personally wouldn't use it as their main food - I'd give it sparingly as treats (depending on the ratio of corn: pellets).

 

The expert at our local poultry centre reckons he gives 1 handful of mixed corn to his 9 hens 3 times a week - so at that rate your bin full might take a while to get through!

 

Jo

[Snowy]

Whoops!

I'd buy another bag of pellets and dilute it a bit more with pellets. It won't do them any harm, but I think is the chicken equivalent of loading the diet with too many cakes and biscuits rather than fruit and veg