Holy balls! I thought I went through a lot of feed! I had to get off my butt and start getting the brewery grain again so I could keep a budget! I filled those big blue round tubs with it... one's a third gone already, and that's in 29 hours! They eat so much food that it seriously makes me wonder if it's worth it! I don't even have any chicken or duck in the freezer anymore and none are anywhere near ready for butcher.
I buy about 2400lbs of layer and pullet grower (varies what I buy depending on what I have more of at the time) And I buy 300-400 lbs a month of chick starter. We supliment the pullet grower with the spent grains. The other just get straight feed. I would love to have a chicken garden and grow fodder in the cooler months. ANYTHING to help with the feed bill. But they pay for themselves so I can't complain too much.
I do need to thin down a little. I am getting about 4 doz eggs a day. I don't have many I am willing to part with, but I know I will sell a few BR (I was using them to make sex links) I have a pen full of project chickens. I am going to move a roo in with them soon, but after I hatch a few hundred LOL I will sell all those pullets off too. That will really help since I must have about 20 pullet in that pen.
We have had SOOO Much rain my poor pens are a muddy muddy mess. More rain coming. Maybe hubby will help me this week and we will dig everything out and have our neighbor come over and put some creek gravel in the runs. I hate muddy eggs and chickens. My poor WL are so NOT white right now