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I bought a 20kg sack of Smallholder feeds' layers' pellets 10 days ago and it's nearly all gone! This is for 6 POL hens and two cockerels. Is this right? I don't mind buying it if that's how much they should be eating, but it seems a lot, especially as they get plenty of extras. Prior to the girls' arrival the boys hardly touched the pellets, preferring to eat the treats and whatever they could find on the plot and I haven't noticed them obviously increasing their consumption since. To give you an idea a 3Kg bag lasted them the best part of a month, and I threw a lot of that away each day because they tended to play with it and it was spoiled. 20Kg is equal to 2Kg a day which is equal to 250g per bird, which is far more than the books say they should be eating. They all seem healthy and none seem overly fat. Both boys have grown enormously these past two weeks though, so perhaps it's them on a growing spurt?
The growers are on growers' pellets and they seem to be munching their way through a fair amount too. I keep the feed at home and only take up enough for each day in those tupperware cereal storer thingys so I know nothing like wild birds or rodents are getting to it and the feeders are still inside the hen-houses because the weather has been so unpredictable.
The growers are on growers' pellets and they seem to be munching their way through a fair amount too. I keep the feed at home and only take up enough for each day in those tupperware cereal storer thingys so I know nothing like wild birds or rodents are getting to it and the feeders are still inside the hen-houses because the weather has been so unpredictable.
That's about £4 worth of food wasted. I left the feeders empty until the Chooks had cleared up what was spilled.
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