Melissa, here's a handy dandy little calculator to help figure grain and protein. And yes you can feed your birdies eggs. Any meat is okay as long as it is meat that is not spoiled.
https://homesteadapps.com/app/free/feedcalc/pearsonsquare.php
Thank you LindaB for an excellent post. This is exactly what I have been looking for and couldn't find. Now I can go forward with my homemade feed with confidence. I am following you.
Well here's an update on the fishy, FF flavored birds, we had two chickens last night, again browned on the grill wrapping in foil and finished on the grill, and eureka!!! the FF flavor was almost gone. The difference?? cured in the fridge for 4 days. Next I will go 5 days and see if that...
Thanks for the ideas but I also have another post where I'm complaining about an off flavor from my FF meat birds and how I got a fish flavor when I switched feed to one with no soy but fish meal so I wouldn't use fish scraps. I live in Alaska so I don't know where I could get catfish pond food...
How do you calculate your protein percentage in your homemade feed? I need another source of protein since I don't have access to enough meat scraps to use as a protein source and we don't grow alfalfa here. I can get barley, oats, and wheat here in Alaska but I need a protein. How do you make...