- Feb 20, 2013
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I'm definitely reconsidering my purely corn-based diet for these birds once they hit 40 days. The fat buildup is amazing and while it makes for a decent-flavored chicken soup (very popular here), there are limits to how much fat the clients will accept. The problem is that both commercial feeds and something as simple as wheat are hard to come by these days. When the bakeries don't have bread because there's no import of flour, you can imagine how everything else is affected.Yes. I agree AgroUrica. But the protein in wheat means, that you dont need a lot of protein to go along with it. But you do need some, I agree. But some leftover fish, meat and poultry from your household can be enogh. You can also use some dried peas or soybean. Sunflower seed also have a lot of protein (and fat).
I would never feed my chickens mostly corn. But something like this could work nicely :
wheat 20 %
Barley 15 %
Oat 10 %
Corn 10 %
Sunflower seed 5 %
Dried peas 5 %
Sprouted wheat 10 %
Pellets 20 %
Leftover meat/fish/poultry 5 %
Plus free-ranging, oister shells and a little olive oil or cod oil now and then.
(This is very close to what I give my chickens and ducks, but ducks get eggs, not meat).