Pellet feed provides chickens with all of the grains, proteins, vitamins and minerals they require for healthful development and is easy to store due to being compact.
Bentoli’s Pelex Dry pellet binders help improve pellet quality by reducing fines and increasing durability, increasing lifespan and providing better feed overall.
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Mill Layer Pellet
Layer Ration with 16% Protein Supports egg production and promotes overall poultry health by providing essential grains, cereal products and protein meals, along with essential vitamins and minerals that promote egg production and overall wellbeing. Its premium blend consists of high energy grains, cereal products and high protein meals; in addition to essential vitamins and minerals to support overall wellness of your flock.
Pellets make feeding chickens much simpler. In addition, pellets help prevent chickens from picking and eating from the ground as would happen with mash feed.
Hens are often fed 14-17% protein diets, but research demonstrates that laying hens thrive when their protein consumption reaches 20-22% and egg size increases over time. Unfortunately, most layer pellets don’t meet this ideal standard due to being designed specifically for caged battery-type systems that do not allow free range movement of their birds. One study concluded that those fed on pellet diets had superior productive performance and protein metabolism than mash diets.
Hi-Pro Layer Pellet
Pellets are one of the most widely consumed forms of chicken feed, being formed into small cylindrical units to limit waste and make feeding simple for flocks. Many poultry enthusiasts also opt to ferment their pellet feed, allowing wild yeasts and bacteria to gather and transform sugars and starches naturally, making the feed more digestible for flocks while helping balance out their gut microbes.
Grower feed is a high protein variety of chicken food designed to meet the dietary requirements of baby chicks and pullets until they’re old enough for layer feed. Typical protein contents range between 16-18% while calcium-rich starter or layer feed may help your hens produce stronger egg shells.
As soon as your flock begins laying eggs, it is time to switch over to layer feed – this balanced blend contains protein, calcium and other essential vitamins and minerals designed to encourage maximum egg production from your hens.
Hi-Pro Broiler Pellet
Textured layer feed designed specifically for replacement layers, broilers, turkeys, ducks and geese. Packed full of vitamins/mineral supplements as well as grit.
This feed is high in protein content, encouraging your flock to expand quicker. As such, it should not be used as laying hen food.
High quality pellet binders enable more formulation flexibility, reduced cost per unit binding capacity and consistent feed quality. Furthermore, natural binders often increase processing costs as well as nutritional losses through oxidation, vitamin degradation and protein denaturation.
Studies conducted at our Hi-Pro Feeds Research Facility demonstrate that when the ratio of crumble-to-fines is reduced, broiler performance increases. The decrease in fines consumption can be attributed to less energy being expended to digest intact pellets – freeing up metabolic energy for other productive activities and saving a portion of daily metabolic energy for other productive purposes. These results have been replicated across various trials conducted using different pellet-to-fines ratios and ingredients.
Hi-Pro Layer Crumble
Feed designed specifically for your poultry species will contain the right balance of nutrients to meet their unique dietary requirements, but if you want to feed your flock high-quality feed without incurring increased costs for specialty formulas there are ways to adapt a general purpose layer feed so as to meet their individual requirements more precisely.
If your mixed flock includes both ducks and chickens, try adding brewer’s yeast to increase protein consumption to meet their higher niacin needs. Or add one tablespoon of ground-up used eggshells into their layer feed as an additional calcium source so they can produce strong eggshells more effectively.
Start your own fermentation of chicken feed by beginning with high quality feed that includes whole grains (rather than highly processed corn or soy) that are easier to digest, naturally contain wild yeasts that help start fermentation processes, and contain enough water to cover and stir your feed.
