layers pellets or mash

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #15 on:** November 16, 2008, 22:10 »

Quote from: "upert"

oyster shell, and especially grit, is fed seperately, non?

Oui :!:

Bodger · « **Reply #16 on:** November 16, 2008, 22:19 »

Remember that wet mash soon goes rancid and very smelly where as dry pellets don't.

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #17 on:** November 16, 2008, 22:22 »

Quote from: "Bodger"

Remember that wet mash soon goes rancid and very smelly where as dry pellets don't.

Absolutly Bodger :!:

That's why I said

Quote from: "Aunt Sally"

I only give them as much as they'll eat in one session.

Bodger · « **Reply #18 on:** November 17, 2008, 07:32 »

My piece of advice with regard to the feeding of wet mash was for the information of the general membership and wasn't aimed directly at you Aunt Sally. Plus its very tempting to leave wet mash down in the hope that they might clean it up at the next sitting.

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #19 on:** November 17, 2008, 12:37 »

Yes probably a very good idea to press the advice home as it can be a bad source of infection.

Quote from: "Bodger"

... its very tempting to leave wet mash down in the hope that they might clean it up at the next sitting.

Definitly a No No :!:

Nogger · « **Reply #20 on:** November 17, 2008, 12:47 »

can changing the food from pellets to mash make that much difference to the egg production :?:

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #21 on:** November 17, 2008, 13:02 »

Should be the same.

sunshinemedic · « **Reply #22 on:** November 17, 2008, 23:19 »

Quote from: "Nogger"

can changing the food from pellets to mash make that much difference to the egg production :?:

Made a difference with one of my chooks. She obviously did not care much for the pellets but really wolfed down mash when I tried giving her some. Made the difference between an inconsistent layer of smallish eggs and a regular layer of large ones!

Nogger · « **Reply #23 on:** November 18, 2008, 16:03 »

i mite just experiment with that mash,nothing to loose

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #24 on:** November 18, 2008, 17:05 »

Are you having problems with the pellets Nogger ?

Nogger · « **Reply #25 on:** November 18, 2008, 19:15 »

Quote from: "Aunt Sally"

Are you having problems with the pellets Nogger ?

not realy Aunt Sally,but out of 13 warrens i thought i should be getting more than just half a dozen eggs a day

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #26 on:** November 18, 2008, 19:22 »

Were they laying that few during the summer or is it just now the darker weather is here ?

Nogger · « **Reply #27 on:** November 18, 2008, 19:30 »

Quote from: "Aunt Sally"

Were they laying that few during the summer or is it just now the darker weather is here ?

to be honest, i bought 5 new birds roundabout july time and the other's are aprox two years old, so maybe the old ones are ready for retirement and that is why i have a low egg production, i think the worst thing i did was to mix new with old :o

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #28 on:** November 18, 2008, 19:31 »

I expect the older ones are going off duty for a while, they'll come back into lay as the days lengthern. Are the young one laying now ?

Nogger · « **Reply #29 on:** November 18, 2008, 19:37 »

Yes those are fine, but the trouble is,now the young birds eggs a large its not knowing who is laying and who isn't

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