How Much Fruit and Veggies is good for a Chicken?

Brooks_ said:

What do you define as feedstocks?

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PatrickGale said:

You asked a loaded question!

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PatrickGale said:

Hi Brooks!
You asked a loaded question!
A Worm’s Tale® Chicken Feed
Parts
3 Used Beer Barley (40%)(High Protein & Fiber)
3 Wheat (40%) (High Protein)
1 Supplements (20%)
1 Cracked Corn (3%)
1 Layer Crumbles (3%)
1 Rice (3%)
1 Calcium (3%) (Ground Limestone or Oyster Shells)
1 Powders (3%)
1/3 Powdered Milk (1%)
1/3 High Protein Pea Flour (1%)
1/3 High Protein Whey Flour (1%)
Free Range: Leaves, Plants, Insects
Organic Garden Produce: Apples, Squash, Pumpkins, etc.

My shopping for prices and quality on chicken feed saved 1/3 of the price.

Because I blend my chicken feedstock, I only pay 6% of the feeding costs; everything else is free

Simple Homemade Chicken Feed Recipe Formula
1 30% Corn.
2 30% Wheat
3 20% Peas.
4 10% Oats.
5 10% Fish Meal.

If you want more information the expanded list is several pagevas!
Patrick Perry
Salt Lake City

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3KillerBs said:

My new job is attending a farm stand. Waste produce I take home is waste produce that the farm doesn't have to send a truck to pick up so I can have all the overripe melons, overripe tomatoes, wormy ears of corn, 3-day-old strawberries, limp green beans, etc. that I want to collect on my workdays.

I'm only going to have 4 hens (meeting tomorrow with the woman who is raising the chicks for me), so I don't need anywhere near a busy farm stand's total wastage. How much is a reasonable amount of produce for a chicken to have in a day? Or, alternately, how many chickens does it take to eat a bruised cantaloupe? (Too much rain in Florida last week -- have a whole bin so waterlogged and overripe that they're bruising under their own, juicy weight).

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