If your chickens have started producing soft or weak eggs, a higher protein feed may help them recover from molting and lay normal, strong eggs again.
Crumble is a coarse variety of mash or pellets that is designed for easily crumbled up by your flock, providing them with essential nutrition that can be offered wet or dry.
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Product Description
Happy chicken feed is a complete layer food designed to help your hens produce more eggs with stronger shells. The premium mix features black oil sunflower, cracked wheat and corn to give your chickens energy for egg production, while multi-grains and molasses provide your birds with essential nutrition they require to remain healthy and strong. Grain is important as laying hens rely on it for gathering food, keeping warm, making eggs, keeping warm themselves and creating an active gizzard so they can digest their meals and extract the nutrients they require from it all at once!
Feed can come in the form of pellets or crumbles, which are both finely ground chicken feed. No matter which you select for your flock, both will do just as well; crumbles may be less messy than dry mash when softened with water to resemble oatmeal-like texture.
Nutritional Information
Chickens need a diet rich in proteins and nutrients for optimal health. Look for feed that contains 16-20% protein with Omega-3s as well as probiotics, prebiotics, calcium (which decreases with egg laying), magnesium and other beneficial substances.
Protein in their feed also plays an important role. Chickens who feed on scraps or weeds require more protein, though this type of source might not provide as balanced a diet as animal proteins would.
Specialized feed contains an appropriate level of protein for different age and breed groups of chickens. Some brands provide separate layer and grower feeds while others are tailored specifically to one age or purpose (show, maintenance or broiler). No unnecessary additives or antibiotics should be included as this could have negative side-effects on health; happy and content chickens will engage in normal poultry behavior such as pecking the ground, taking dust baths, roosting and preening and may make happy noises or run up to greet you or make happy chicken noises or run up and greet them all!
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Chickens thrive when given ample room to roam and forage for food, take dust baths, hunt bugs for eggs to lay, preen themselves and preen their feathers. When satisfied, chickens will make soft sounds or run to greet you or cluck excitedly when you arrive home; but an unhappy or sick chicken may remain motionless within its coop and not make noise at all.
Layer feed can either come in pellet form or crumbles (sometimes known as mash), and should be available all day to the flock. In addition, table scraps, mealworms or Nature’s Best Bug & Grain Scratch may also be given out. In order to maintain optimal health for their gizzards, chickens also require shell grit – ground up seashells ground into coarse gravel which provides additional calcium benefits – in their diet.
Customer Reviews
Many satisfied chicken feed customers report that their birds enjoy this brand of feed. Furthermore, many are reporting that their hens have started laying many eggs! Happy chickens will be active, pecking at the ground or dust baths and nesting; when people enter or exit their coop they will come running out to greet you and make happy chicken noises; those experiencing illness or distress will remain quiet or retreat into their coop.
NatureWise Chick Starter Grower 18% Medicated Poultry Feed is designed to give your chicks a healthy start from day one. Packed full of essential protein, amino acids, prebiotics, probiotics yeast cultures and essential oils as well as amprolium for protection against coccidiosis, this formula will ensure they grow up as happy chickens!
