Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

[chickengr]

garlic is the number 1 choice when making feed it can be mixed in the water and is good to kill worms or paracites I always use it in feed and water one of the best natural antibiotics for chickens

me too. I just don't give it every day.

 

[Teai]

Can chickens eat dried beans or rice?

 

[chickengr]

Can chickens eat dried beans or rice?

beans must be well cooked. I have seen young chicks eating uncooked rice but I have never tried.

 

[TQuinn]

Rice needs to be cooked also. Not much nutritional value in white rice

 

[slordaz]

mine go ape for buttercup squash, watermelon, garlic and cayenne pepper,oatmeal, and just about any type of small seeds

They love oatmeal, and table scraps too

 

[KerAlexisFarms]

Thanks for kicking this off!! Can't wait to try some new ideas!

 

[Chris09]

Rice needs to be cooked also. Not much nutritional value in white rice

1 -- Rice doesn't need to be cooked, you can feed it raw.

2 -- As for there not being much nutritional value in white rice, lets compare a couple key factors of white rice to corn and oats.


Rice (White) ---

Digestible Matter (DM)--------------89
Total Digestible Nutrition (TDN)---79
Net Energy Maintenance (NEm)--85
Net Energy Gain (NEg)--------------55
Crude Protein (CP)--------------------8

Corn ---

Digestible Matter (DM)--------------88
Total Digestible Nutrition (TDN)---88
Net Energy Maintenance (NEm)--98
Net Energy Gain (NEg)--------------65
Crude Protein (CP)--------------------8

Oats ---

Digestible Matter (DM)--------------89
Total Digestible Nutrition (TDN)---76
Net Energy Maintenance (NEm)--81
Net Energy Gain (NEg)--------------52
Crude Protein (CP)-------------------13


From these numbers you can see that white rice fall just below corn but still above oats in these key nutritional factors.

 

[ladyearth]

yeah but they take the bran out correct? I have a book somewhere written by a son.. upset about his mother dying.. He blamed it on wnite rice,etc... believe thy were Asian.. She supp became diabetic....
I only buy brown rice, black rice or wild rice.... even for myself.. Corn might be starch but something about the endosperm. read and bought the book "Resilent Gardener". Kind of wish I got duck instead. suposedly good nutrition in healthy duck eggs.... Plus lady I met recently said "easier to raise". Another guy at Flea mkt said "geese were" He might have been putting me on. Heck I dont know... I am a city girl till recently... LOL
OH can I use myELECTRIC MEAT GRINDER.... electric meat grinder to grind peas.. whole peas.. Is a good brand... Id be scared to grind corn.. prob break the unit...Heck my blender barely touched corn....Oster brand..
that one link said peanut or soy..... I would try peanut in a mixture... Heck if my pecan trees were cared for could have used them. But they havent been cared for we only been here for a while. and the good for nuttin squrrels steal the best ones. Kitty kat wont chase them. Wish a neighbor dog would but not bother my chickens... All the dogs do around here is on and on barking.....
thanks all...

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

yeah but they take the bran out correct?  I have a book somewhere written by a son.. upset about his mother dying.. He blamed it on wnite rice,etc...  believe thy were Asian.. She supp became diabetic....
 I only buy brown rice, black rice or wild rice.... even for myself.. Corn might be starch but something about the endosperm. read and bought the book "Resilent Gardener". Kind of wish I got duck instead. suposedly good nutrition in healthy duck eggs.... Plus lady I met recently said "easier to raise". Another guy at Flea mkt said "geese were"  He might have been putting me on. Heck I dont know... I am a city girl till recently... LOL
  OH can I use myELECTRIC MEAT GRINDER.... electric meat grinder to grind peas.. whole peas.. Is a good brand... Id be scared to grind corn.. prob break the unit...Heck my blender barely touched corn....Oster brand..
that one link said peanut or soy..... I would try peanut in a mixture... Heck if my pecan trees were cared for could have used them. But they havent been cared for we only been here for a while. and the good for nuttin squrrels steal the best ones. Kitty kat wont chase them. Wish a neighbor dog would but not bother my chickens... All the dogs do around here is on and on barking.....
  thanks all... 

You can starve to death, many poor Asians have, eating only white rice. Vitamin A deficiency is rampant in the Asian poor. Even corn has a little yellow to it (I am not claiming one could survive off of it, but it gives you some nutrition)

 

[chicklover 1998]

I mix together 40lb. layer crumble-16%
40lb. meat bird starter-22%
40lb. feather fixer-18%
40lb. scratch grain
20lb. BOSS
5lb. poultry conditioner
5lb. game bird/show bird
5lb. poultry grit
1 weekly can of peas
-kitchen scraps-
thinking about fermenting my mix