By purchasing bulk, you save both money and waste. Furthermore, buying in bulk allows you to stay on top of your chicken feed needs more efficiently – often increasing its shelf life by several months!
Chicken feed contains various components. These ingredients include cereals for energy, fats and oils for healthy fat content, minerals and vitamins as well as proteins, supplements and any miscellaneous elements that might be required.
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Starter Crumbles
Manna Pro organic chick starter crumbles are an ideal food choice for chicks aged six weeks or less, featuring no pesticides, herbicides or GMO ingredients and providing 19% protein as part of a nutritionally complete ration. Chicks may also enjoy eating small insects as treats collected outdoors as well as greens and vegetables collected outdoors – just always provide chick grit to help break down their food in their gizzards.
At seven weeks, it is time to switch your chicks over to Dr. Jim Z Pullet Developer feed – typically a crumble diet with 20% protein that provides all of their nutritional requirements while still allowing some foraging activity. This food provides your birds with enough energy for them to meet biological demands while meeting biological obligations.
Crumble feeds are coarse variants of mash that have been ground into smaller particles to be more easily consumed by young chicks and poultry, making feeding easier on both ends. Furthermore, they’re more convenient than pelleted food while still offering similar nutrition levels.
Layer Crumbles
High-quality layer feed is essential to ensuring that your flock continues to lay healthy, beautiful eggs. With the Country Road Layer Crumbles Feed, you can have peace of mind knowing they are receiving all the nutrition they require for optimal condition.
This organic laying feed offers a nutritional blend of whole grains and grub protein, plus essential vitamins and minerals. Furthermore, this feed includes marigold extract for deeper yellow egg yolks as well as antioxidants to provide additional health benefits.
This feed comes in both pellets and crumbles, and both contain equal nutritional content. Select the form that works best for your flock; texture differences primarily determine which format your birds prefer: pellets are compact cylinders while crumbles have coarser consistency that’s easier for chickens to digest. For optimal results, mix in one tablespoon of dechlorinated water into each feeding to help break down ingredients more easily for digestion by your chickens.
Broiler Crumbles
Mixes of unprocessed grains such as corn, barley, wheat, rye, sorghum, field peas and sunflower seeds that do not undergo processing, like corn grits. It is an extremely popular choice among small farms because it keeps fresh longer while costing significantly less than processed rations; however it doesn’t contain all the essential protein, fats, vitamins and minerals chickens require; hence only provide in limited amounts.
Bentoli Pelex Dry pellet binder provides superior crumble feeds by protecting them from heat and moisture extremes, improving overall quality, while significantly decreasing fines generated during pelleting processes.
Studies have demonstrated that feeding broiler starter phase broilers a crumbled diet improved bodyweight, ADG, ADFI and FCR performance compared to feeding them mash diets. This can be attributed to its physical form – with higher protein and energy levels found in crumble-pellet diets resulting in better performance – along with more digestible pellets producing faster chick growth that ensures optimal final body weight of birds. These findings indicate a more digestible feed can accelerate chick growth for optimal final bodyweight optimization of birds.
Grower Pellets
Growing chickens require special feed that contains less protein (16-18%) and calcium than typical layer feed varieties to avoid overnutrition in young chicks. Cooked wheat provides easy digestibility while organic ingredients provide essential vitamins and minerals necessary for strong development, including Sel-Plex organic selenium to support health and immune function and betaine to reduce risk of dehydration. This feed product also features Sel-Plex organic selenium for supporting health and immunity as well as betaine which reduces dehydration risk.
This unique blend of organic whole grains, grub protein (produced by feeding food waste to black soldier fly Hermetia illucens), essential vitamins, and minerals is made using non-GMO ingredients and soy- and corn-free sources. Chicks find this easy to consume while the small pellet size facilitates digestion while its higher nutrient density than typical mash diets promote a healthy gut environment; also ideal for layer hens!
