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I know you wanted people with years of experience and I haven't found anyone yet that does it exclusivly. I have been trying for almost a year and this is what I found out with my chickens alone. I live in north florida and that might make some difference compared to your circumstances...

That should be good I was giving my four chickens much less than that and they were not eating it all and they hardly touched their laying pellets. Also I put crushed egg shells in the seed while it is growing and the chickens ate it up my eggs are nice and hard. I think if I give them more...

I have no problem finding mine at my feed store where I get my commercial pellets. But if you can't find it there try the internet. I don't know if walmart does anything to them to stop them from growing. Worse comes to worse buy it from walmart it is for bird consumption anyway, and try to...

I heard that soybeans sprouted or unsprouted were not a good source of protein for chickens. Try duckweed which is ridiculously easy to grow.

Yes it is called fodder and everyone has a different way to do is so I would do my research and experiment my self. From my personal experience don't go off chicken feed "cold turkey" wean them off slowly and keep a check on their weight I was still getting eggs so I thought my girls were fine...

I read somewhere that while commercial feed adds it to there recipe to boost protein it is not necessarily the best for them. other sources of protein are much better. Mealworms, duckweed or wheat has some protein.

I bought mine on ebay for about 6 dollars for 300-500 of them I think you can also ask around for anyone who has a pond from what I hear it is a nuisance and they would love to give you bunches of it

from what I understand is they can have sprouts from almost right away. And I don't know if I would say I am not having any luck with only fodder I just don't have the recipe down yet. I was getting eggs but my chickens were slowly losing weight. I think I just did not have enough protein for...

Fodder does not replace hay from what I am told but it does cut it back

I did it for a few months and I got the same amount of eggs once they got use to it. The problem was they lost weight and I now use the pellets as a supplement

make sure it has lots of drainage I keep getting mold I am told it is from water taking to long to drain

regular sunflower doesn't have enough nutrients I am told

I thought about this also but my chickens favorite part of the fodder is the seed between the root and sprout

I have been doing this for a few months now and my chickens love it. I mostly use 3/4 wheat and 1/4 black sunflower seeds. While my chickens love it, I wanted to get away from commercial feed. This did not work I noticed my chickens loosing weight very slowly and they were not eating all of...