Nature's Grub Fruit & Berry Treat Mix – 1.2kg

Nature's Grub Fruit & Berry Treat Mix – 1.2kg

A scatter treat rather than a feed: cooked and whole cereals with raisins, apple, cranberries and apricots through them, plus black sunflower seeds and oyster shell. Thrown on the ground it gets a flock searching, scratching and picking things over, which is most of the point of it.

Nature's Grub declare 13% crude protein, 4% oil and 4% fibre. That sits below a layers ration, so this goes on top of a complete feed and not in place of it — best in the afternoon, once the birds have eaten their proper ration. 1.2kg reusable bucket.

Performance & Benefits

• Cooked and whole cereals with real dried fruit: raisins, apple, cranberries and apricots.
• Oyster shell blended through as a calcium source.
• Black sunflower seeds for oil and for something worth hunting out.
• Scattering gets birds foraging, scratching and moving rather than standing at a feeder.
• 1.2kg reusable bucket with a lid, which keeps the mix dry between feeds.

Suitable For

• Laying hens and back-garden flocks of any breed.
• Enrichment for birds confined to a run, or shut in under an avian influenza housing order.
• Afternoon feeding, once the complete ration has been eaten.
• Keepers who want a treat with fruit in it rather than plain mixed corn.
• Not a complete feed. Birds still need a full layers ration such as Copdock Mill Range Layers Pellets underneath it.

Feeding

• Scatter straight from the bucket onto dry ground. Nature's Grub recommend the afternoon.
• Keep it to a treat-sized handful per bird. Scatter feeds dilute a balanced ration if they are overdone.
• Birds eating whole cereals need insoluble flint grit available separately. The oyster shell in this mix is a calcium source for shell building, not a grinding grit — they are different jobs.
• Do not scatter onto wet or muddy ground, where it sours and draws vermin.
• Keep the lid on the bucket between feeds.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: naked oats, red dari, micronized barley, micronized wheat, raisins, red millet, oyster shell, rolled naked oats, black sunflower seeds, apple, cranberries, apricots, micronized peas, kibbled peas.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 13%, crude fats and oils 4%, crude fibres 4%, crude ash 3%.
• Also declared: lysine 0.5%, methionine 0.2%.
• 1.2kg, supplied in a reusable bucket. Nature's Grub also pack this mix as a 600g pouch and in 5kg and 20kg bulk.