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    Growing fodder for chickens

    I think we're underfeeding them then, for 25 hens we were giving them about 7lbs of finished fodder, plus compost and a bit of feed. So we are just today upping the count to 55 hens. So by your scale we should be giving the 13.75 lb before sprouting, plus the daily compost and a bit of pellet...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Although this all sounds good and I'll look into lentils or peas, we have already been doing sunflower (as well as compost) on top of our wheat fodder. I'm not totally convinced that vitamins and minerals is the reason they have stopped laying. Vitamins maybe, but our hens must already be...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Hmmmm...maybe they are not get enough protein and minerals. Do you mean Fertrells Poultry Nutri-Balancer? That sounds good but it looks like we can't get it in Canada Is there a similar product? I'm new to Fodder maybe i'm doing this wrong....
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Hi We've had chickens for 4 years, although we enjoy the fresh eggs and meat it's always a break-even to expensive venture using commercial feed. This year we have bought a ton of wheat from the farmer across the road and have started to grow fodder, as well as using some permaculture methods...
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