u can make your own chicken feed, there are websites for it and how much to proportion certain things and such, i feed mine a wide variety of seeds and such, i posted further up if u want to see all i feed mine
most of my chickens have come from them, and i am getting 22 more in a cpl weeks, my friend has won some first and second place ribbons with some of hers from there, and in the spring i am going to show mine as well from them
I currently feed my chickens, ducks, and geese a wide variety, and I to have the bucket at the sink lol, they also get the overage from the garden in the summer, now that its winter this is what i feed for grains and such...layer pellet, duck and goose pellet, flax, scratch, c.o.b., kelp tea...