Brown Egg
Blue Egg
Oat and Wheat Treats
By Alan Stanford, Ph.D.
Brown Egg Blue Egg
Here is our recipe for oat and wheat treats
1/2 coffee can (1 pound 5 ounces)
|
Oatmeal -or- rolled oats
|
1/2 coffee can (3 pounds 12 ounces)
|
Whole wheat
|
sprinkle
|
Granite grit
|
sprinkle
|
Crushed oyster shell
(Only for an adult laying flock)
|
1/2 to 3/4 cup
|
Wheat germ oil
|
2-4 teaspoons
|
Vita-Pro B
|
4 teaspoons
|
Probiotic Powder
|
- Soak the wheat for 12-24 hours in hot water. It begins to sprout and softens.
- Rinse the wheat.
- Mix the oats and the wheat germ oil in a bowl. The oats absorb the oil so Silkie beards stay clean. Glenda Heywood says do not use the two kinds of oil together.
- Add the vitamin powder.
- Sprinkle a layer of granite grit on top of the mixture.
- If this is for adult layers, sprinkle a layer of crushed oyster shell on top of the mixture.
- Add the lactobacillus.
- Mix.
- Add whole wheat.
- Mix.
- Fight off the flock as you dole out the treats. I fill the feed troughs about 1/3 to 1/2 full.
Special For Soft Egg Layers
If a group of birds has a hen laying soft shelled eggs do the following twice in 3 days.
- Follow the above directions but do not add the wheat.
- Separate enough mixture to half fill one of the feed troughs.
- Add two teaspoons Nekton MSA to the mixture.
- Mix.
- If you see Nekton MSA powder in the bottom of the bowl, add wheat germ oil until the powder sticks to the oats.
- Add whole wheat until you have enough to fill a feed trough.
- Divide into two feed troughs so all the birds can feed at once.
- Stand back and watch your little buddies eat.
I get my probiltic and Vita-Pro B at First State Veterinary Supply. 410-546-6137
    Links to the product pages: Probiotic Compound, Vita-Pro-B Concentrate
I get Rex Brand Wheat Germ Oil at Jeffers. 800-533-3377
    Link to the product page Rex Fortified 100% Wheat Germ Oil.
Brown Egg
Blue Egg