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they'reHISchickens : I'll chime in to say that one company's scratch is not another company's scratch. I've purchased scratch from local mills that is a good variety of mostly whole grains and could very well be a fairly good diet. Then I bought a bag of Purina scratch and was totally shocked...

Quote: BOSS id black oil sunflower seeds Scratch has corn in it, but also has other things in it like oats and other grains. no question is dumb, seriously I asked the same question when I first began asking questions here. lol No kidding , I thought everybody was suggesting I feed my wife...

Fred's Hens : They will live. Barely. But just won't thrive, as others have said. If you have layers and want eggs, you'll have to do better. A nice layer feed. It's not unlike feeding kids only food from McDonalds. They'll live, sort of, but it isn't healthy.

I know alot of old timers in our area who never feed their chickens anything except scratch and corn, so they will live on it. However, they will not thrive, grow correctly or lay the amount of eggs that they will on regular chicken feed. As someone else posted... it's not any more expensive to...