Half-grown grouse ; Dusky Blue,Prairie,Spruce and Capercaillie
Raising grouse chickens to maturity is a quite complicated business. Grouses are delicate birds in captivity.
Young chicks and half-grown grouses easily suffer from several nutritional deficiency diseases. These youngsters can not be kept and fed like young exotic pheasants.
It is especially their long digestive track which needs lots of vegetable food items such as cellulose, minerals and other vegetable matters to function properly and to avoid growth abnormalities during their first year of life.
As a result, we do almost not feed any pelleted food or granulates produced by the bio-industry meant for chickens, pheasants and/or turkeys, as these do not contain the correct feedformulations and sufficient digestible crude fiber contents. Instead of these, lots of natural plants are given to our youngsters to raise them to maturity.
