feeding

[bobafet 30]

At what sort of age do you start mixing wheat with your pellet to get your birds of pellet

 

cheers b..

[hily 380]

At what sort of age do you start mixing wheat with your pellet to get your birds of pellet

 

cheers b..

we dont mix it we normaly change over to corn at about 13 -14 weeks to early and the poults will just peck out all the corn to get to the pellets mind you i am not a keeper but this is what we have found works on our shoot.Hopefully a keeper member on this site will be able to advice you in more detail.atb.

[Lab 10,979]

Lets say you have 1000 birds in a pen feeding out of 10 bins...................when they reach the 11/12 week old stage i would start by introducing 1 bin at a time with wheat. Then each day keep changing a bin from pellets to wheat until all your bins are wheat. I wouldn't mix the wheat to the pellets or they will just peck out the wheat to get to the pellets.

I always have wheat in the bins around the pen from the beginning so any birds venturing out the pen already knows what what is

[DIDO.1 22,846]

Lets say you have 1000 birds in a pen feeding out of 10 bins...................when they reach the 11/12 week old stage i would start by introducing 1 bin at a time with wheat. Then each day keep changing a bin from pellets to wheat until all your bins are wheat. I wouldn't mix the wheat to the pellets or they will just peck out the wheat to get to the pellets.

I always have wheat in the bins around the pen from the beginning so any birds venturing out the pen already knows what what is

 

I have always mixed wheat in but when we ran out of pellets recently I filled a couple of bins up with straight wheat and found they wer scattering less food under the bins in their search for pellets, so im going to switch one bin at a time from now as you say.

 

Do you provide grit to aid the change? wer on the edge of a grouse moor so going to borrow a few buckets of grouse grit, good idea?

[Lab 10,979]

Lets say you have 1000 birds in a pen feeding out of 10 bins...................when they reach the 11/12 week old stage i would start by introducing 1 bin at a time with wheat. Then each day keep changing a bin from pellets to wheat until all your bins are wheat. I wouldn't mix the wheat to the pellets or they will just peck out the wheat to get to the pellets.

I always have wheat in the bins around the pen from the beginning so any birds venturing out the pen already knows what what is

 

I have always mixed wheat in but when we ran out of pellets recently I filled a couple of bins up with straight wheat and found they wer scattering less food under the bins in their search for pellets, so im going to switch one bin at a time from now as you say.

 

Do you provide grit to aid the change? wer on the edge of a grouse moor so going to borrow a few buckets of grouse grit, good idea?

They get grit right from the minute they reach the pen mate. Just dump a couple of bags(obviously depends on numbers of birds) in 2 or 3 places around the pen and they'll scrape and peck away at it.

Cant see any probs with grouse grit, never used it but there could be a good chance its medicated stuff so fire away, unless someone knows a reason not too?.

[DIDO.1 22,846]

Lets say you have 1000 birds in a pen feeding out of 10 bins...................when they reach the 11/12 week old stage i would start by introducing 1 bin at a time with wheat. Then each day keep changing a bin from pellets to wheat until all your bins are wheat. I wouldn't mix the wheat to the pellets or they will just peck out the wheat to get to the pellets.

I always have wheat in the bins around the pen from the beginning so any birds venturing out the pen already knows what what is

 

I have always mixed wheat in but when we ran out of pellets recently I filled a couple of bins up with straight wheat and found they wer scattering less food under the bins in their search for pellets, so im going to switch one bin at a time from now as you say.

 

Do you provide grit to aid the change? wer on the edge of a grouse moor so going to borrow a few buckets of grouse grit, good idea?

They get grit right from the minute they reach the pen mate. Just dump a couple of bags(obviously depends on numbers of birds) in 2 or 3 places around the pen and they'll scrape and peck away at it.

Cant see any probs with grouse grit, never used it but there could be a good chance its medicated stuff so fire away, unless someone knows a reason not too?.

 

Its not medicated, dont think i could get away with nicking much of that. I know they will find grit naturaly but I was also worried about switching to early s was thinking of putting plenty around the feeders to help the switch. Grouse grit looks perfect especially when they are storeing it in our barn on the shoot!!

[Lab 10,979]

Lets say you have 1000 birds in a pen feeding out of 10 bins...................when they reach the 11/12 week old stage i would start by introducing 1 bin at a time with wheat. Then each day keep changing a bin from pellets to wheat until all your bins are wheat. I wouldn't mix the wheat to the pellets or they will just peck out the wheat to get to the pellets.

I always have wheat in the bins around the pen from the beginning so any birds venturing out the pen already knows what what is

 

I have always mixed wheat in but when we ran out of pellets recently I filled a couple of bins up with straight wheat and found they wer scattering less food under the bins in their search for pellets, so im going to switch one bin at a time from now as you say.

 

Do you provide grit to aid the change? wer on the edge of a grouse moor so going to borrow a few buckets of grouse grit, good idea?

They get grit right from the minute they reach the pen mate. Just dump a couple of bags(obviously depends on numbers of birds) in 2 or 3 places around the pen and they'll scrape and peck away at it.

Cant see any probs with grouse grit, never used it but there could be a good chance its medicated stuff so fire away, unless someone knows a reason not too?.

 

Its not medicated, dont think i could get away with nicking much of that. I know they will find grit naturaly but I was also worried about switching to early s was thinking of putting plenty around the feeders to help the switch. Grouse grit looks perfect especially when they are storeing it in our barn on the shoot!!

Free grit is the best kind!!!!

Yes they will find it naturally but if you can make it easier for them then all the better. They'll end up wandering away, finding it on the side of the road and then splat!