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Timothy Norton wrote:I feel that crumble lasts longer but it feels like more goes to waste?
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Timothy Norton wrote:I fill the same sized gravity feeder with either feeder or crumble, and it seems I refill it more frequently when it is pellets. I don't see pellets on the ground or scratched around, but when I do crumble it seems there is more spillage but I don't have the refill the feeder as much.
Cujo Liva wrote: I'm not 100% certain, but my guess is that you aren't actually loading the same amount of feed. Pellets are larger and so there is more air space in your feeder. I believe if you loaded X pounds of crumbles vs X pounds of pellets into the feeder that they would feed your chickens as long.
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Timothy Norton wrote:It sounds crazy, I know.
I fill the same sized gravity feeder with either feeder or crumble, and it seems I refill it more frequently when it is pellets. I don't see pellets on the ground or scratched around, but when I do crumble it seems there is more spillage but I don't have the refill the feeder as much.
Maybe the flock scavenges more with crumble available? I'm at a loss. Once I finish this bag of crumble that I'm watching I'll try pellet again and see if I can compare the time it lasts.
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Anne Miller wrote:We moved a few years back and left our chicken house with our daughter.
She fell in love with chickens .... (same with most animals).
She feeds fermented feed so I guess that would be whole grains.
I like the sprouts or microgreens for chickens.
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Nate Davis wrote:I think whole grains are the best since any milled grains will have long since oxidized and lost much of their nutrients. They may be a bit less digestible but when taking into account the added cost (energy) of milled grains it is negligible. If you buy bulk organic grains and mix your own tmr vs the few organic chicken feeds around, it's no contest.
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