So far I've done everything by hand too. With the exception of the neighbor breaking the initial ground for my garden, it's been hand raked and hoed every since! Truly a labor of love to be a DIYer that's for sure.
Exactly. And to try it by hand would be a full time job! I was thinking this year of growing more of my own heritage soy and dent corn so I could at least switch my meat birds to my own home grown feed for the last week of their life. I'd mix in a few more local organic grains for nutritional...
I've got a nutrition calculator to help you formulate your own feed here:
https://humble-hills-farm.com/2020/03/27/a-protein-fat-and-cost-calculator-for-homemade-chicken-feed/
But I'm gonna tell you, no matter how I crunched the numbers and searched for bulk grains, or supplemented by growing...