If you’re planning on starting a chicken flock, selecting appropriate feed is crucial in helping ensure they thrive and produce eggs while staying happy and healthy.
When choosing chicken feed, it is key to find a balanced combination of proteins and calcium for maximum egg laying success. Doing this will ensure your hens continue laying tasty, sturdy eggs!
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Homestead Harvest Non-GMO Layer Blend
Homestead Harvest Non-GMO Whole Grain Layer Blend is a delicious feed mix created by a family farm nearby that contains essential vitamins, minerals, probiotics, Omega 3, herbs and calcium for producing quality eggs from your flock.
This feed also features linseed oil as a great source of omega 3 fatty acids and kelp, an abundant natural source of essential minerals and vitamins. Perfect for raising chickens and ducks alike! All essential components are present to ensure optimal performance.
This feed is corn and soy free, making it a more healthy option than many other brands on the market. Plus, minimal processing means it is easy for your hens to digest. What’s more, being rich in calcium content helps them form stronger eggshells!
Manna Pro Pellets
Maintain the health and happiness of your chickens with Blain’s Farm and Fleet’s selection of starter, grower, and layer feed from trusted brands like Nutrena, Manna Pro, Agrimaster Kent – available locally.
Your feed should reflect what your chickens prefer. Dry mashes tend to disperse when chicks flick them around, so something with finer grain texture may be preferable.
If your hens enjoy pecking at their food, crumbles are also an option; these small cylinder-like grains break easily into smaller pieces than mashes.
The top laying hen feeds offer high levels of protein to promote egg production, along with probiotics for gut health and digestion. Furthermore, these feeds include calcium to maintain sturdy shells while still being an all-natural blend that ensures their wellbeing.
Homestead Harvest Organic Layer Blend
Choose high-quality feed ingredients and form for optimal health and performance of your birds. It should contain high quality ingredients with various sources of nourishment that they’ll love to snack on! Achieve this result is key.
Homestead Harvest Non-GMO Whole Grain Layer Blend is composed of cracked grains fortified with vitamins, minerals, probiotics, herbs Omega 3 essential oils and calcium that will keep your flock healthy so they can produce high-quality eggshells. Soy and corn-free and 100% vegetarian friendly; keep your flock laying beautiful eggs!
Feed is sold in 40-50lb bags, suitable for growers, starters or egg layers. It features wheat, barley, peas, sesame meal and various vitamins and supplements for maximum growth and productivity.
New Country Organics Organic Layer Blend
New Country Organics’ Organic Layer Blend offers 17% protein with no soy or corn content and is both Certified Organic and non-GMO, making it a fantastic option for keeping backyard flocks.
Organic grains and seeds that are nutritionally dense while being free from pesticides or hormones make this cereal highly nourishing and without pesticides or hormones are used in its composition.
This product comes in the form of mashes, crumbles and pellets; we suggest feeding it as wet mashes to maximize digestibility and absorption of vitamins and minerals.
This feed provides complete nutritional balance by combining cracked and milled grain with kelp, organic alfalfa, and Poultry Nutri-Balancer to form a comprehensive feed solution for poultry. Incorporating extra calcium for eggshell strength as well as organic flaxseed for increased omega-3 content in eggs.
