Amazing...

[Guest spin cycle]

when first of my stock hatched i switched feed gradually fron my basic farm grown corn mix to a proper breeding mix thinking i was doing the right thing. on sat i found a yb dead in nest and just assumed it had been outdone by the larger nestmate....sunday i rung a couple in the raceloft and realised they wern't far behind the older yb ....checked it and didn't think there was alot in crop....thought about it today so i put some tic beans lunchtime...tonight his crop is full to bursting. basically his parents didn't like the breeding mix and would rather starve their ybs than feed it...can't believe it.

[lvlasked]

dam that poor yb died for no reason i hope they rest ok mate and hope everythink else going ok so far this year

[Henrik]

Far too much maize n stuff in commercial breeding mixes,old birds always leave the maize so why is it in there in the first place? jmo

[OLDYELLOW]

:emoticon-0136-giggle: :emoticon-0136-giggle:

[victorious]

when first of my stock hatched i switched feed gradually fron my basic farm grown corn mix to a proper breeding mix thinking i was doing the right thing. on sat i found a yb dead in nest and just assumed it had been outdone by the larger nestmate....sunday i rung a couple in the raceloft and realised they wern't far behind the older yb ....checked it and didn't think there was alot in crop....thought about it today so i put some tic beans lunchtime...tonight his crop is full to bursting. basically his parents didn't like the breeding mix and would rather starve their ybs than feed it...can't believe it.

 

very very interesting thought

 

Far too much maize n stuff in commercial breeding mixes,old birds always leave the maize so why is it in there in the first place? jmo

 

very simple maize is cheap

[gulkie]

don't like to see a lot of maze if any in breeding mix

I use breed and wean and mix in concord and I find my yb

strong and robust.

[eastcoaster]

i mix 40%breed& wean 40% breeding 5% barley 5% gem pellets 10% beans then as the come off the milk the beans will increase upto 30%

[Guest spin cycle]

there is alot of maize in the mix ...but that goes and looks like peas are least popular. the only mixed food i buy is yb and occasional breeder....i began to have doubts about the yb feed last year...so looks like i'll be mixing my own this year.

[THE FIFER]

[Guest IB]

Agree with observations on maize, too much and they'll throw it everywhere. Also some of it is IMO poor quality - broken grain, the birds won't eat that either.

[Guest stb-]

bg of horse beans bag of barley bag of poultry growers pellets will rear brilliant yb and its not exspencive ,, have tried all the other things but this is the best ive had

[Guest geordiejen]

breed and wean i use no maize in it.