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I have a hard time with the age culling thing personally. I never have more than 40 so is not a real issue here. I let them "retire", usually find them a couple years after retirement, peacefully expired, and then they go into the back pasture for the local wildlife to recycle.

I'll not at all familiar with those, but i learned a hard lesson with the sorghum, so now i research the feeds i choose, lol. 40 plus hens, less than 8 eggs daily. For a year. Crazy. Now i tend to get a bit preachy about sorghum, so apologies!

About 3 years ago, agricorps started replacing corn with sorghum sourced from 3rd world countries. Its a lot cheaper. There were multiple studies done vowing no differences... studies funded by agricorps. NHIS is one of two i found that were objective. I did a big article on it in this site...

IM a fanatic about NOT using sorghum in any form. I feed the Nature wise AllFlock from TSC. It's a bit more pricey, but they are getting better nutrition so there's less waste and less gorging. I did a years worth of research and experiments on sorghum and on diatomaceous earth (diff story)...

I did a long post here about sorghum. I was happy to see many responses, you could check that out. There's also a discussion about Easter Eggers not being good layers. I think you can search those terms and get a lot of info. Also mine (I'm in far north Maine, slow down until after spring...