Hen Up Chicken Feed is a non-GMO complete feed designed for chickens that provides all of their nutritional requirements, eliminating the need for supplements. It can serve as their only diet without supplements being necessary.
Hens require at least 17% protein content in their diet for optimal body development and to produce eggs. They also need calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium potassium and sulfur for strong bones and hard eggshells.
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Protein
Hens need protein for many essential bodily processes, including immune response, laying, muscle development and feather growth. Their feed should contain protein sources like legumes (beans and lentils) or oilseed meals like soybean, canola or sunflower. In addition, animal by-products such as bone meal or poultry meat meal could also provide essential nourishment.
Nutritionally complete layer feed contains all of the proteins a hen needs for healthy, productive laying. By offering snacks, treats or table scraps in addition to her complete layer feed, offering treats or table scraps dilutes its nutritional balance and can lead to aggression, obesity, reduced egg production, feather picking, egg binding and overall poor health.
If your point of lay pullet or end of lay hen appears scruffy and is losing feathers, consider providing her with a higher protein diet (16.5%). She needs to gain or maintain weight as well as help stimulate feather regrowth- especially now as we enter autumn/winter when most chickens go through an annual moult cycle.
Calcium
Chickens need calcium rich ingredients such as oyster shell, grit and phosphate for healthy growth, bone density and egg production. Complete feeds generally provide adequate amounts of calcium but supplementing with gizzard mix or green forage can increase levels further in their diets.
Hen up provides organic layer feed in pellet, crumble and mash forms; all provide similar nutrition but certain flocks find one easier than another to adjust to.
Made without soy, this layer feed provides the appropriate levels of protein and calcium to assist hens in producing nutritious eggs. Packed with ancient grains and superfoods like organic peas, organic oats, organic barley and wheat plus antioxidant-rich organic cranberries and wild blueberries plus prebiotics probiotics and omega-3 fatty acids for improved immune and digestive health and free of pesticides herbicides and GMOs, it guarantees maximum egg production for maximum profit!
Ash
Wood ash is full of minerals and nutrients such as calcium, potassium and phosphorus – acting as a natural detoxifier to flush out toxins in chicken’s digestive systems.
Wood ash added to a chicken’s dust bath helps eliminate external parasites like mites, lice and fleas from its environment. Animals in the wild often consume charcoal from forest fires as a natural way of repelling bugs – wood ash is particularly effective at this task.
Wood ash can help stop bleeding by encouraging blood to clot, making a great alternative to rock salt! Use wood ash on any wound to stop any further bleeding; and in your garden for plants that need extra calcium such as beans, kale, broccoli potatoes and spinach that require it! It also makes an attractive ornamental accent.
Kitchen scraps and wood ash can provide your flock with extra nutrition, but take caution not to use ashes from stoves that contain chemicals and impurities that could harm them.
Vitamins
Chickens don’t require as many vitamins as other animals do, but still need an adequate supply to ensure proper body functions and avoid disease-associated vitamin deficiencies. Their requirements remain fairly constant throughout adulthood unlike proteins’ requirements which fluctuate. Minerals:
Grains do not provide much in terms of minerals, so commercial feeds usually include an assortment of mineral-rich ingredients like limestone, oyster shell or dicalcium phosphate to add this rich source. Furthermore, such ingredients help regulate how phosphorous and calcium are utilized by poultry.
Calcium, phosphorous and potassium are key minerals for poultry flocks. Protein-rich foods such as meat, dairy and egg yolks also form an integral part of their diets. Furthermore, chickens cannot synthesize water-soluble vitamins themselves so these must also be included – specifically B vitamins (biotin, folic acid, pantothenic acid riboflavin thiamin). and Vitamin C must also be given daily in their feed regimens.
