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  1. pdirt

    Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

    I like your recipe. Are you still doing something like this? If so, have you found a need to include an oil to help then powdery Nutri Balancer and fish meal to stick to grains and not end up as powder in the feeders? I just started supplementing my feed with fish meal and nutri balancer and so...
  2. pdirt

    Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

    So here is my rough draft of a basic grower type recipe (soy free), egg or oyster shells will be available on the side. All the food ingredients (grains, legumes) are organic and most of these are from Azure Standard. The below recipe comes out to $0.55/lb. The upfront cost would be about $400...
  3. pdirt

    Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

    Hmm, I wonder if fermenting oats or barley helps create/activate those necessary enzymes so they are present in the feed...the bird consumes the enzymes along with the grains. Anyone know? I am going to look this one up
  4. pdirt

    Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

    Quote: ChickensAreSweet - Thanks for your reply and input. Yes, I might include barley. And yeah, I could grow my own camelina and maybe someday I will do so, but for right now that just sounds like too much work! Such an interesting topic and I'll be watching this one for sure now. pd
  5. pdirt

    Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

    Fascinating thread, I just finished perusing all 236 posts to date, though I only followed a few of the links, as there were a lot of them. We have been using a very high quality feed called Scratch n Peck, which is mostly organic, no soy and no GMO. It's costing us about $0.83/lb. With some...
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