It’s the feed. The commercial feed. Apparently on the poultry blogs, it is being discussed. One lady soaks her feed in water, drains, repeats and it softens and makes it easier for her hens to eat. She realised that the seed from a particular seed seller was not absorbing water and had an unusual smell about it. Her hens would not eat it. Her hens had stopped laying. She had a large amount of kitchen scraps and threw this in and within a day they began laying.
Chickens don't have teeth. If you feed them whole grains you have to give them grit, which is used in their crops to chew up the grains. If you give them grit, you don't have to soak their feed.
There has been a lot of misinformation about this feed issue.
I know nothing about chickens. Just reporting what this lady revealed on poultry boards and I know nothing about her. She has 1.4 million followers so she reports on her chickens enough to have that many followers.
Well I do. I've had chickens for years. And I don't care how many followers she has. You can buy those numbers. She either has some odd reason for soaking their feed or she doesn't know enough about chickens (chickens 101) to give them grit.
I've seen another chicken lady with lots of followers who has lovely calico curtains and other fabric decor in and around her cute little hutch. She apparently has chickens that don't poop.
I hope I don't sound like any of this is aimed at you. I know you're just passing on what you saw or read.
It’s the feed. The commercial feed. Apparently on the poultry blogs, it is being discussed. One lady soaks her feed in water, drains, repeats and it softens and makes it easier for her hens to eat. She realised that the seed from a particular seed seller was not absorbing water and had an unusual smell about it. Her hens would not eat it. Her hens had stopped laying. She had a large amount of kitchen scraps and threw this in and within a day they began laying.
Chickens don't have teeth. If you feed them whole grains you have to give them grit, which is used in their crops to chew up the grains. If you give them grit, you don't have to soak their feed.
There has been a lot of misinformation about this feed issue.
I know nothing about chickens. Just reporting what this lady revealed on poultry boards and I know nothing about her. She has 1.4 million followers so she reports on her chickens enough to have that many followers.
Well I do. I've had chickens for years. And I don't care how many followers she has. You can buy those numbers. She either has some odd reason for soaking their feed or she doesn't know enough about chickens (chickens 101) to give them grit.
I've seen another chicken lady with lots of followers who has lovely calico curtains and other fabric decor in and around her cute little hutch. She apparently has chickens that don't poop.
I hope I don't sound like any of this is aimed at you. I know you're just passing on what you saw or read.