Could any of you great chicken people tell me how long I should feed chicken starter?

[Arete]

We feed ours Starter Crumbles until they get big enough to eat the pellets and free range. At that point we moved them to a 50/50 mix of All-Flock pellets & Scratch twice a day, we sow it in their forage area. They also get kitchen scraps, although we don't put out meat scraps as it tends to draw predators.

For calcium we save our egg shells, bake & crush them and put them in a separate feed bowl; they seem to know when they need the boost.

For the very hard moments during the winter (I'm in New England) we keep a feed block we can put in the coop when it's too cold for them to go into the run. I prefer the Wild Game feed block for it's mixture of seeds.

Thank you for the tips!!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I feet crumble until they're large enough to eat pellets. My little month olds already can eat small pellets