Verm-X Layers Mash with Verm-X 20kg

Copdock Mill Range Layers Mash with Verm-X – 20kg

The 20kg bag of Copdock Mill's Range Layers Mash with Verm-X: a complete ground ration for laying birds with the Verm-X herbal blend included at 0.9kg per tonne. Copdock Mill declare 17.0% crude protein, 5.0% crude fibre and 4.0% calcium, and give a feeding rate of at least 120g per hen per day.

Mash is the right choice for birds that eat too fast, birds with a damaged beak, and anyone who likes to damp the feed down in cold weather. It is messier than a pellet and more of it ends up on the floor — a trough with a lip and a daily clear-out deals with most of that.

Performance & Benefits

• Complete laying ration at 17.0% crude protein and 4.0% calcium.
• Ground mash, slower to eat than a pellet and kinder to a damaged beak.
• Verm-X herbal blend included at 0.9kg per tonne.
• Grass meal and paprika in the mix, both contributing to yolk colour.
• No egg withdrawal period.
• 20kg bag — the economical size for a working flock.

Suitable For

• Laying hens, and ducks, geese and bantams in lay.
• Flocks large enough to clear 20kg while it is still fresh.
• Birds that bolt pellets, or that struggle to pick them up.
• Keepers who damp feed down through the winter.
• Not for chicks or growers. Copdock Mill Chick Starter Micros and Growers Pellets are the correct feeds until about three weeks before point of lay.

Feeding

• Feed ad lib, allowing a minimum of 120g per hen per day — Copdock Mill's own figure.
• Feed dry or lightly damped. Damp mash sours quickly, so clear and wash the trough daily.
• Start the layers ration about three weeks before point of lay.
• Offer insoluble flint grit separately. The oyster shell and limestone in a layers feed give shell calcium; flint grit does the grinding, and one will not do the other's job.
• Clean fresh water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: wheat, wheatfeed, hipro soya bean extract (GM#2), calcium carbonate, barley, sunflower extract, grass meal, vegetable oil, dicalcium phosphate, sodium chloride, DL-methionine, paprika, L-lysine HCl, antioxidant, layers supplement, with Verm-X included at 0.9kg per tonne.
• Analytical constituents: crude oil and fats 4.0%, crude protein 17.0%, crude fibre 5.0%, crude ash 13.5%, moisture 14.0%.
• Also declared: calcium 4.0%, phosphorus 0.5%, sodium 0.2%, lysine 0.71%, methionine 0.35%, total copper 18 mg/kg.
• Copdock Mill publish these figures for Range Layers Mash and no separate analysis for the Verm-X version, which is the same mash with Verm-X added.
• Bag weight 20kg. Also supplied as a 5kg carry-home pack.

Care & Caution

• At 4.0% calcium this is a laying ration. Chicks and growers must not have it: a sustained calcium load before point of lay damages the kidneys.
• Verm-X is a herbal blend, not a licensed wormer. Where a worm burden is diagnosed it does not replace a veterinary anthelmintic.