Good article, with some helpful info. Thanks.
Personally, we feed our flock pretty much every kind of leftovers except for onions which they clearly dislike. Plus we feed them their egg shells. These reduce the amount of chicken feed and crushed oyster shells we have to buy.
Sometimes, if there is too much of one thing we spread it out over several days. But we really do not spend a lot of time trying to perfect their diet. We've had a couple dozen birds for probably 10 years and have never had any kind of health or laying issues.
We also take all the cooking scraps (not particularly edible) and put them in in a large compost pile in paddock 7. Since the chickens are only given access to that paddock about one day every 2-3 weeks, it allows time for the compost to attract a wide variety of insects. The chickens love the variety of protein, so we call it their Brazilian Steakhouse. And since the rest of that paddock is planted with extra tall grasses, we named it the Velociraptor Paddock.
Personally, we feed our flock pretty much every kind of leftovers except for onions which they clearly dislike. Plus we feed them their egg shells. These reduce the amount of chicken feed and crushed oyster shells we have to buy.
Sometimes, if there is too much of one thing we spread it out over several days. But we really do not spend a lot of time trying to perfect their diet. We've had a couple dozen birds for probably 10 years and have never had any kind of health or laying issues.
We also take all the cooking scraps (not particularly edible) and put them in in a large compost pile in paddock 7. Since the chickens are only given access to that paddock about one day every 2-3 weeks, it allows time for the compost to attract a wide variety of insects. The chickens love the variety of protein, so we call it their Brazilian Steakhouse. And since the rest of that paddock is planted with extra tall grasses, we named it the Velociraptor Paddock.
