Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

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BOSS! Black oil sunflower seeds have 16% protein or thereabouts and chickens love them. They need to be older than around 6 weeks to eat them, though.

Also birdseed is millet (the small round golden balls) with 11% protein and it is one of my chickens' favorite.

Here is the treat chart:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart

Also they sell scratch for chickens, some with more grains than others. Some folks are able to get I think a 7 grain scratch. I have only bought 2 grain scratch in the past.

Treats should only comprise around 10% of the diet I have read.
 
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I bought alfalfa pellets at Wilco since they have them on sale to give it a try. The chickens did eat but didn't go crazy. Which is good actually. I am going to slowly buy one thing at a time and try them individually and then at some point, make a mix for them.

I plan to leave them a feeder with the layer pellets and then offer a feeder with the stuff I mix that I fill daily with just enough for them to enjoy in the morning.
 
so thinking about going whole grain and heres the mix i'm thinking of based off what my chickens like to eat most

4 parts wheat

2 parts organic cracked yellow corn

2 parts rolled barly

1 part rolled oats

1 part safflower seed

and of course free choice oyster shell and grit

also will prolly add kelp to this

anything i need to add? should i add bone meal?

btw cost for grain alone is 48 cents a pound
 
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found some millit so now this is how imma do there mix

4 parts wheat

1 part corn

1 part rolled oats

1 part rolled barley

1 part safflower

1 part millit

1 part BOSS if i can ever get them to eat it
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