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School project? This is a very good question not easily answered. Lets say you live in the state of Alaska verses the state of Texas. Climates are entirely different and so are the crops that are available. Common feed for chickens is anything they might forage for and consume. That includes...

Thats a really cute chick on your avatar, what kind is it? I've been around the block so many times on chicken feed, I'm sick of hearing it. I have read enough articles to know what is and isnt good and I go with what works for me. I change it up a little bit between summer and winter and make...

I take it back, Purina layer is only 16% protein. I had purchased a product for meat birds at 19%. I went back to Purina.

Yep, our store offers 2 varieties. Naturally, one is more expensive than the other.

I purchase my scratch grain mix from our local grainery. I actually know a few of the farmers who contribute the grains to be mixed. Grain may lack the much needed protein a bird needs but the grain nutrients are valuable. Chickens will eat corn mash, but corn is really a filler with little...

"YOU" prefer a pelleted feed most likely due to waste sediment in other feeds. Pelleted feed has less of it. Question is, how do your chickens like it? Put a bowl of scratch grain down and I guarantee the pellets most likely wont be eaten. The real issue is getting a feed manufacturer to include...

Scratch and Peck? Is that a brand name or a coined term your using? I use some scratch mixed in our feed but I dont use scratch as their main feed.

Makes perfect sense to me, thats why I add scratch mix from our local grainery.

Excuse me, but dont you think major brand distributors have done all the legwork for you? Multiple feed variations for which ever application of bird stock you are raising is pretty much available. If you only have egg birds, then there is layer feed. If its meat birds, etc. The real problem...

Thanks people! Iam going to pose my concern to our grainery expert as he is also a chicken farmer. If you put a bowl of scratch and a bowl of crumbles in front of your chickens, which one will they eat first? Ha ha.

Golden feathers, you made a good point about getting less protein by mixing scratch with crumbles. I will definitely take note of that.

Agreed Michael, so why dont manufacturers add more protein to the scratch product?

I think you did misunderstand me. I said I mix crumbles and scratch together as their main feed.I have been for 4 yrs. And they manage just fine and are surviving quite well. Crumbles has much needed protein and scratch is lacking that supplement but it also has other nutritional needs worthy of...

Lets talk chicken feed! My chickens love the scratch mix I acquire from our local grainery. I like the blend of ingredients within the mix. It even has black sunflower seeds witch they devour. Main concern is lack of protein and essential vitamins. I generally add a a commercial brand of...

Currently blending crumbles and scratch. Crumbles has the protein and the scratch has what they really want in it. Scratch products lacks sufficient amount of needed protein but I find the crumbles to be uneaten and a waste using it for that reason. They pick through the crumbles and devour...