Chicken Cracked Corn

No, feed maize as a treat or mixed into your chickens feed but do not allow it to exceed 10% of their total diet. Always ensure your chickens have access to fresh water and a quality chicken feed sourced from your local fodder store.

Yes, maize can be safely fed to all poultry. It is an excellent source of fats and starch that will help poultry hold their weight and productivity. Be sure to feed it in conjunction with a balanced diet.

Yes, we encourage you to provide an enriching diet through the use of mixed grains and free ranging. This can help eliminate boredom, increase egg productivity and quality, and keep your hens healthy. Always ensure that your poultry have access to fresh water and a standard chicken feed. Treats can be fed as an additional supplement but should not be the sole basis of their diet. Other treats you can feed your hens from the Nesty Basics range includes: Sunflower Seeds and Linseeds.

Corn can be fed whole and come with excellent results. However, by cracking or rolling corn, it will increase the digestibility of it by 5 to 10%. -This increases your feed utilization and reduces your hens consumption.

Whilst we use the term “maize” and “corn” interchangeably, there are differences between the final product. However, they both look very similar, thus we talk about them with both names. Maize is far less sweeter than corn and has larger kernels. Maize is used for cropping situations where it will be fed to livestock. Whereas corn has a smaller cob that fits our dinner plates better, its is significantly sweeter and is brighter in colour too.