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Thank you so much, alpinefarm, for your very clear and well-written explanation! I do feel inspired to work more at making my own chicken feed. I wish, wish I could free-range, and let them use their own innate wisdom to feed themselves. But too many free-roaming dogs, hawks and no fencing here...

Alpinefarm--I am very interested in how you are feeding your chickens, as I would like to move in that direction. Right now mine get about 1/2 their diet in whole organic grains, cracked peas, alfalfa hay, etc...and the other half is still crumble. Do you feed any fish meal or vitamin mix such...

Several people on here grow meal worms for their chickens and it sounds quite easy. Others give them worms (red wigglers) from their worm bins. I am going to probably grow some fava beans or similar legumes as these are easy to grow and high in protein. You could also look into giving them...