- Jul 8, 2014
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Dear friends,
I have been buying organic Modesto Milling chicken feed. It's about $.56 per pound, but it varies. Unfortunately, my hens eggs are pretty thin and not very yellow.
As for the shells, I give them oyster shells, but they do not like them. As for the eggs, they do have a run on the dirt, and are let out a few hours a week, so I think they get bugs that way. However, neither of the above is satisfactory.
I read online that pellets may be less nutritious than grains, and therefore chickens eat more in order to get what they need-do you buy in to that?
I have much time, but would prefer not to spend much money. So, by fermenting and growing fodder, worms, and marigolds, I was thinking I could be a cheapskate in terms of grains.
I really know hardly a thing about this, but have done some research. This is the extent of what I do know.
Here are the ingredients I would like to use:
Oats-$.48 per pound, 16% protein
Kamut, flax seed, and sunflower seed mix- $.55, 14%
Corn- $.68, 9%
Red wheat-$.55, 11%
So, what do you think the proportions should be? Also, I don't know how much protein these would be if soaked...
Supplements:
-Fodder
-Worms: 28% protein
-Marigolds
-Oyster shells
-Sunflower seeds: 17%
Do you think I would need these in addition?
-DTE
-Brewers yeast: 39% protein
Kelp meal: ?% protein
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I would so appreciate your advice, even if you don't know much! I haven't been able to find methodologies, just recipes. I'd like to develop my own to save $, even if the soaking, worms, etc. took more time.
Thanks a million!
-Maria
I have been buying organic Modesto Milling chicken feed. It's about $.56 per pound, but it varies. Unfortunately, my hens eggs are pretty thin and not very yellow.
As for the shells, I give them oyster shells, but they do not like them. As for the eggs, they do have a run on the dirt, and are let out a few hours a week, so I think they get bugs that way. However, neither of the above is satisfactory.
I read online that pellets may be less nutritious than grains, and therefore chickens eat more in order to get what they need-do you buy in to that?
I have much time, but would prefer not to spend much money. So, by fermenting and growing fodder, worms, and marigolds, I was thinking I could be a cheapskate in terms of grains.
I really know hardly a thing about this, but have done some research. This is the extent of what I do know.
Here are the ingredients I would like to use:
Oats-$.48 per pound, 16% protein
Kamut, flax seed, and sunflower seed mix- $.55, 14%
Corn- $.68, 9%
Red wheat-$.55, 11%
So, what do you think the proportions should be? Also, I don't know how much protein these would be if soaked...
Supplements:
-Fodder
-Worms: 28% protein
-Marigolds
-Oyster shells
-Sunflower seeds: 17%
Do you think I would need these in addition?
-DTE
-Brewers yeast: 39% protein
Kelp meal: ?% protein
======================
I would so appreciate your advice, even if you don't know much! I haven't been able to find methodologies, just recipes. I'd like to develop my own to save $, even if the soaking, worms, etc. took more time.
Thanks a million!
-Maria