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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: langdon on September 28, 2010, 09:27:09 pm

Title: corn for fattening?
Post by: langdon on September 28, 2010, 09:27:09 pm

we now have alot of cockerels in seprate pens with eating in mind, is corn good for fattening them up
or is there something else they need.
thanks langdon  :chook:

Title: Re: corn for fattening?
Post by: DJ_Chook on September 30, 2010, 08:42:17 am

Corn could be good. It might also depend on what breed you are fattening up.

Quick example. I've 3 week old isa brown cross RIR boys on a chick crumb/rolled corn mash... and they are structurally not much bigger than the girls but are definitely plumper. Maybe it's all fat & not meat, I'll find out sometime.