Mash or Crumbles for Layers

My consulting work in the poultry industry is focused on broilers and laying hens (commercial and breeders). In that, I find myself drawn mostly towards practical issues, one of which I would like to discuss in this blog entry. It has to do with the physical texture of feed offered to commercial layer hens. As it stands, there is not such a thing as a consensus when it comes to this issue. In some parts of the world, the whole industry is very attached to feeding mash, but in other parts, the i