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Bramham Wiltshire Horns

  • Joined Oct 2014
  • leeds
  • Bramham flock Wiltshire Horns
change in food
« on: October 03, 2016, 10:37:34 am »
HI

does any one change the feed for the chickens once they stop laying over winter or stick to the layers

thanks
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farmers wife

  • Joined Jul 2009
  • SE Wales
Re: change in food
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2016, 11:09:48 am »
Ive always stuck to the same regime they are still layers.

Bramham Wiltshire Horns

  • Joined Oct 2014
  • leeds
  • Bramham flock Wiltshire Horns
Re: change in food
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2016, 11:14:08 am »
yes
i always have done
thanks
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twizzel

  • Joined Apr 2012
Re: change in food
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2016, 11:40:48 am »
I mix mine 50:50 with cut maize over the winter months especially whilst they are moulting.

macgro7

  • Joined Feb 2016
  • Leicester
Re: change in food
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2016, 12:18:22 pm »
My ones get layers pellets, wheat and oats over the winter. Then mostly layers pellets again from February
Growing loads of fruits and vegetables! Raising dairy goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits on 1/2 acre in the middle of the city of Leicester, using permaculture methods.

Dave C

  • Joined Aug 2014
  • Teesdale, Co Durham
Re: change in food
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2016, 12:50:46 pm »
I have a lot of bags of wheat kicking around with feeding pheasants, so when / if they stop I feed that.
Wheat is a lot cheaper than layers.

I turn my lights on timers in February so put them back on layers then

 

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