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I have to call them tomorrow and find out for sure if it's gluten free. I can't help but look at my whole grain mix, and thier crumbles, and think that the grains *have* to be better, though, if you really get down to it, and as long as I am providing enough variety and enough protein. It's...

I was reading that most of the grains are deficient in methionine. It's why I included the buckwheat, because it has more than the other grains...but the sunflower seeds are higher in protien *and* have extra methionine. I could potentially even drop the buckwheat - it's the only grain that...

Ok...I was researching the fish meal, and found a mill an hour and a half away that makes a soy *and* what looks to be gluten free line of chicken feeds, and it is all organic! I need to find out what is in their vitamin and mineral premix, but everything else is safe. Now...I've got 300 lbs...

So right now I've got the peas as approx 25% of their grain diet, but they are also probably getting an additional 20% or so of their diet from the greens and extra protein foods I am supplying. I think that should still have me under the reccomended 20% even for young chicks. I am still going...

Thanks - that thread was very helpful.

So, I've pulled thier grit and salt, and I'm just going to sprinkle over thier food until everyone is 2 weeks old. I can ask about fish meal when I go back up to the feed store on Wed. All the stuff that I've read recently was anti-fish meal, though. I'm not opposed to a meat based protein...

So...we are brand new to chickens, and have kind of jumped in with both feet. We have 16 chicks all 1-2 weeks old. We had planned to feed organic chick starter until they were much bigger, and then transition to a homemade grain feed. My son has a serious gluten sensitivity (celiacs disease)...