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I opened up the pasture to them this afternoon. They were SO EXCITED!! I failed to mention I have over 25 chickens and eggs in the incubator, so buying them "snacks" would get way too expensive. I wouldn't have been buying scratch had I know before now that it was a "Sometime food" :) With...

That's what I was wondering :-/

So if scratch is just a treat, is there anything wrong with giving them Horse rations that I'm already buying? I'm trying to cut down on all the different bins of feed I'm collecting with each animal I add to the farm :)

Currently they've eaten their run dry so I give laying mash and scratch so they get enough to eat. I love the occasional dried grasshopper legs I find in the premixed scratch, and I'm sure the hens do too! Once I switch their location I'm hoping the pasture will take the place of scratch. I...

I did a google search for scratch recipes and found this old post :) https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/151165/how-do-you-make-your-own-chicken-scratch-recipes-needed I'll have to play around and see what my feed store carries.

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I hate walking into the coop and seeing all the cracked corn in the dirt, obviously none of my chickens are eating it from the scratch. Has anyone found an alternative to Chicken Scratch? I'm wondering if the horse rations I buy for my milking goats would be better, but I don't know if the...