Chicken feed advice.

[LostHomestead]

We produce about a 5 gallon bucket of Hornwort, Water Wisteria, snails, and baby cull fish from our fish breeding business every day. Currently I'm tossing about 1/2 a gallon of the plants mixed with snails into the chicken run every day. The rest goes to our pigs, but they will go to camp freezer soon.

We have 29 laying Leghorn hens and want to lower the amount of commercial feed they get. I have read a bunch of times that you can feed fish scrapes to chickens and it will not change the flavor of the eggs, but have not read when they were eating fish a few times a week or daily. Dose any one have an thoughts on this?

Anything that is not feed to the chickens will get put into a composter daily.

 

[azygous]

Your problem would be to calculate what would be enough commercial feed so the chickens are getting all of the balanced nutrients they require and not so much protein that their kidneys become over worked.

Hens in lay need about 20% protein per day, and about a cup of dry feed.

Too much protein can cause obesity and kidney damage, and other add-on issues such as high ammonia in droppings that can cause blistered feet when walking on it and respiratory issues from breathing it.