homemade scratch?

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I am thinking of getting the ingredients in bulk and even is some cases trading produce eggs ect for them from local farmers we know. So cost boughten vs. cost to make really does not concern me. I am wanting to know what all everyone who makes their own uses so I have sort of an ingredient list. This way I can figure out what I can get locally or possibly even grow for in my scratch, like the corn and sunflowers, part of which we grow and part of which we grow and the rest we buy locally. I already have a ton or more of corn ordered off a farmer friend. And with us moving to the new place it will be alot easier to store bulk feed.

I have over 40 birds as well as horses, goats guineas, ducks, peacocks and of course your normal pet animals. So our bill at the feed store would scare the tar out of most people. And there is always room for another unwanted rooster. We have them cause we love it, and we do what we do because we want the best for our animals we can provide.
 
I agree with beekissed, I don't really feel comfortable feeding just layer pellets, ect I like to make sure that they get treats or a little something extra. May be it is more for my good feeling then theirs, but still I do it. I guess part of the make our own scratch is also the fear or poisoned feed like we got a few years ago. We are now very jump about buying feed that we do not know truly where it comes from. We buy our feed now only from local feed mills that buy all their ingredients from local farmers. NO premade and repackaged feed.
 
I am thinking of getting the ingredients in bulk and even is some cases trading produce eggs ect for them from local farmers we know.  So cost boughten vs. cost to make really does not concern me. I am wanting to know what all everyone who makes their own uses so I have sort of an ingredient list.  This way I can figure out what I can get locally or possibly even grow for in my scratch, like the corn and sunflowers, part of which we grow and part of which we grow and the rest we buy locally. I already have a ton or more of corn ordered off a farmer friend.  And with us moving to the new place it will be alot easier to store bulk feed.


I have over 40 birds as well as horses, goats guineas, ducks, peacocks and of course your normal pet animals. So our bill at the feed store would scare the tar out of most people.  And there is always room for another unwanted rooster.  We have them cause we love it, and we do what we do because we want  the best for our animals we can provide.
I know this is a very old thread but did you ever come up with a good rounded out recipe for scratch? I currently have 22 chickens but by June 1 I will have nearly 100. As previously stated in this thread homemade might not be cheaper but it's what I want. I have acreage to grow most things on my own and what I can't I can trade meat, eggs or produce for here in town. I'm in a small help each other out town. I would love to feed fresh over dry ground up no one knows what's actually in it stuff. My flock is free range all season but as soon as it snows they refuse to leave the barn. So I have roughly 8 months to grow and process the ingredients for the scratch.
 

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