Fancy Feeds Mixed Corn Poultry 20 kg Bag - Chicken / Poultry Feed

Fancy Feeds Mixed Corn – 20kg

Two ingredients and nothing else: wheat and cut maize. That is the whole composition Fancy Feeds declare for this mix, and it is worth being clear about what that means — mixed corn is a treat and a scratch feed, not a ration. It carries energy, and very little of anything else a laying bird needs.

Fed properly it earns its place. A handful scattered across the litter in the afternoon gets birds scratching and pecking for an hour, which is the cheapest enrichment there is, and the maize puts a bit of extra energy into a cold night. Fed as a meal it quietly wrecks a laying flock's diet.

Performance & Benefits

• Clean, straightforward blend of wheat and cut maize with nothing else added.
• Scattered on the floor it drives natural scratching and foraging behaviour.
• Energy-dense, which is useful going into cold weather.
• Palatable enough that it works as a recall feed and for taming nervous birds.
• Suits chickens, ducks, geese and bantams equally.
• 20kg bag, so a garden flock is set up for a long while.

Suitable For

• Chickens, ducks, geese and bantams of laying age.
• Afternoon scatter feeding and enrichment in a run.
• Keepers wanting a simple grain treat rather than a fortified one.
• Not a complete feed and not for chicks or growers — birds need a balanced ration underneath it, such as Fancy Feeds Layers Pellets. If you want a scatter feed that also carries protein and calcium, Fancy Feeds Supreme Mixed Corn is the better choice.

Feeding

• Fancy Feeds' guidance is to feed it as a treat, ideally in the afternoon, in conjunction with their Layers Pellets so the birds get their essential nutrients from a balanced ration first.
• Scatter it across the pen floor or litter rather than putting it in a feeder — the scratching is half the point.
• Fancy Feeds publish no daily rate for this product. As a working guide, keep it to a small handful per bird and stop well short of what they would happily eat.
• Keep insoluble grit available so birds can grind whole grain.
• Fresh, clean water at all times.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition, as declared by Fancy Feeds: wheat, maize. 20kg bag.
• Fancy Feeds publish no typical analysis for this product on their own website — no protein, oil, fibre or ash figure — so none is stated here.
• For comparison, their Supreme Mixed Corn, which is analysed on their site, runs to 11% protein. A plain wheat and maize mix sits lower still.

Care & Caution

• This is a complementary feed. It cannot sustain a laying hen on its own, and a flock filled up on corn will drop off lay.
• Overfeeding mixed corn is the commonest single cause of poor laying and overweight birds in back garden flocks. Feed it after the main ration, never instead of it.