HeidiZ
Chirping
- Jan 16, 2016
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Hello, I have 65 chickens and I go to a local feed store and I usually buy 4 bags of scratch (with no oats) 3 bags of whole corn and 4 bags of layer pellets. That usually lasts me for a month. It usually costs me around 115.00 . If you have a local public market go buy vegetables and fruit for your chickens there .They don't care if the vegetables don't look perfect or if the fruit is bruised and the farmers practically give that stuff away. That will save you a lot of money in the growing season because you can cut back on the on the other stuff. I also feed mine leftovers anything that is not spicy (pepperoni) or full of salt. They will eat stale cereal, pizza crust, banana peels they will pretty much eat anything usually when I clean out the fridge they get whatever I want to get rid of. They also love worms. After it rains I collect all the worms from my driveway and give them to the chickens they love them (my ducks love them too) and they are a good source of protein. They really like dandelion leaves also. Good luckHello, I have 90 baby chicks and I was wondering how much I will have to feed them a week. Also how could I cut the feed cost of feeding the 90 birds. If you have any advice please let me know. Thanks!