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    Feeding chickens *WITHOUT* chicken pellets ??

    There's 'labor intensive' and 'as easy as possible', all aiming for the same results. I'm in the 'easy' camp myself. I spend time doing things that must take time, and avoid doing time consuming things that either can be done faster, or that are truly enjoyable for me. Mary
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    Feeding chickens *WITHOUT* chicken pellets ??

    I don't mean to say that extra foods are a bad idea, and especially love any range time the birds can have! It's when too much of something is offered at the expense of having a balanced food out there that there's more likely going to be a problem. Mary
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    Feeding chickens *WITHOUT* chicken pellets ??

    I have a comment about the whole 'offer different grains and hope for the best' plan for feeding chickens, or whoever. Do we all eat right? Really? Some birds, specifically, will be much better at eating what's good for them, and that's great. Others will eat what tastes good, and not eat...
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    Feeding chickens *WITHOUT* chicken pellets ??

    And if you want to have healthy birds on that sort of diet, get breeds closer to those original birds, like maybe game breeds, who have low egg production. A high producing leghorn, for example, will pull calcium from her bones if her diet is mineral deficient, until those bones fail. Not...
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    Feeding chickens *WITHOUT* chicken pellets ??

    Balancing a diet for laying hens is not as easy as it may seem! Originally, chickens are jungle animals in SE Asia, small birds laying maybe thirty eggs each year at most. A decent modern egg laying hen can lay 300 eggs each year or more, a huge metabolic effort on her part! Dual purpose...
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