H&H, the local Pet Stock had some of that information in store. I saw some of the flyers and guides regarding chicken feed and they were quite helpful. Oddly, they do not stock the pullet finisher at all and I was advised to go straight from the grower feed to the layer.
Even stranger, I spotted an empty space on the shelf of 20kg bags for a "poultry finisher", which the staff member claimed was what you feed really old chickens, and entirely different from pullet finisher. Though, I never saw "poultry finisher" anywhere on any lists of feeding guides.
Either way, I have some crumble and grower feed and will slowly give them less crumble and more grower until they are ready to go onto the layer feed. The poor things are so wary of us at the moment, they are knocking their food bowl around every time someone comes close to the coop, so I think we'll go through it pretty quickly  I did have their food in a container on the ground for them, but I bought them the silver bowls that hang off the side of the coop, thinking that would be harder to knock down... but nope, it didnt last half an hour. I would get them one that hangs from the roof but they would probably end up injuring themselves so I will keep an eye on their container and restock their food when it gets into inaccessable areas.
|
