vanlash
Chirping
- Apr 17, 2011
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Your setup sounds like mine, except our chicken run is about 100 ft by 30 ft. I only have 3 girls right now. I'm feeding the organic hen scratch (yes, very expensive), but I really wanted to find out if it is possible to feed them things not store bought, I mean not processed foods like you mentioned. I stopped using hen layer long ago when I read that they changed out linoleic oil for oliec oil(I think that is the right way), I could find the article, but basically they changed out the oil because it allowed a longer shelf life, but it caused the eggs to be higher in cholesterol. When I was just looking for the article. I found one that mentioned cashew nut meal reduces the cholesterol value. 'Course that's probably pretty expensive too. But yep, I dig up worms and feed them to my girls. You are not alone. So, this particular batch of hens are really not into fruit which I find strange, wish I could find a way to entice them. I have tons of fruit trees. They pick at vegi scraps. They are really picky. Anybody have any other ideas on food that can be bought like in a grocery store that will give chickens a healthy balanced diet (on top of their bug and weed foraging) to replace hen scratch?