Anyone create their own scratch feed?

[B40chick]

One advantage of unused scratch, I am having red birds frequent the coop area to get leftovers. I am cutting back on scratch as advised.

 

[Folly's place]

I feed 20% protein Flock Raiser, separate oyster shells, and the birds free range, so they get
other stuff' spring through fall. We give very small amounts of corn or scratch feed as a treat a few times a week at most, as in one or two cups max for forty or fifty birds! They may go weeks without, too, and do just fine.
Layer feed is designed for smaller high producing hens in confinement, who eat nothing else. They are culled after two laying cycles at most, so aren't expected to 'live long and prosper' either.
Mary

 

[Flockincrazy]

I make my own feed its fairly inexpensive but I have friends that I get some of my stuff from at a discount but in saying that my flock is not to keen on store bought feed so here is my recipe and I have my own mealworm farm and add 1c per 10lbs of food

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

I do whole barley, BOSS, and dried meal worms.

There are feed calculators you can find online to help take the guesswork out of this. You put in ingredients and weight and they'll tell you the protein and carbohydrates content. It's been awhile since I used them but I'm sure Google can point you in the right direction.

 

[centrarchid]

The mix I use starting in fall has the following by volume:
3 parts Shelled field corn (not cracked)
3 parts Oats
3 parts Milo
1 part BOSS (black oil sunflower seed)

When available wheat also used as 3 parts.

Wheat and milo and hard to get much of the year because of storage issues. My preference is to use popcorn or flint corn rather than field corn but latter is easier to get.

 

[peasant_girl]

I make my own. Equal parts of:

Whole oats (not the rolled kind)
Black Oil Sunflower Seeds
Scratch Grains Mix

Add in a little diatomaceous earth, and a little grit.

They don't get much, a quart a day for 19 chickens. I don't see why you couldn't make your own mix with stuff that they will eat.