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Animal protein or individual synthetic amino acid supplements. Chicken living in the wild eat lots of bugs and small animals. They'll eat a big animal if they find a dead one. Modern chicken feeding usually uses grains and legumes and add the limiting amino acids as synthetics. 100 years ago...

Those are still vegetative sources and missing essential amino acids. Humans have 8 essential amino acids, chickens have 12. Please read the following articles http://puyallup.wsu.edu/dairy/nutrient-management/data/publications/Protein%20and%20amino%20acid%20for%20poultry-final.pdf...

A cereal type feed isn't going to give them the protein they need. All grains and most legumes are missing some of the essential amino acids. When they make chicken feed, they use mostly grain and legumes and then add synthetic methionine and lysine to make up for what's missing in vegetative...

Chickens are omnivores so they benefit greatly from animal protein. Do you have access to dairy, fish, worms, locusts? Breweries for spent grains? Here are a few things to look at. http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Feeding+from+Home+Resources.html...

Where are you located? Is chicken feed not available where you are? I'm not surprised they didn't grow well. All those things are not only low in protein but as vegetative sources they are woefully low in the amino acids methionine, lysine and tryptophan - not to mention vitamins, minerals and...